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SECTION V. 

 EDUCATION. 



CHAPTER XV. 



The Demand for British Agricultural Colleges 

 in the Tropics if our Resources are to 

 be developed. 



Tropical Life, July, igi6. 



The publication last year of the. discussions that followed 

 the various papers read at the Third International Con- 

 gress of Tropical Agriculture, which, it will be remembered, 

 took place in London at the Imperial Institute, just before 

 war broke out,' goes to prove more convincingly than ever 

 how great is the need in the Tropics for at least one 

 agricultura.1 college to be established in their midst, and 

 how unanimously and eloquently the leading authorities 

 on tropical agriculture throughout the world have pleaded 

 for such an institution at an early date. We say this 

 without taking into account the part taken in the agitation 

 by Professor VVyndham Dunstan, President of the Con- 

 gress, and father of the idea, and the Editor of Tropical 

 Life, who have pleaded for the colleges for many years 

 past. 



Going elsewhere, however, the book of the Congress, 

 in reporting discussions on the papers read, tells us that 



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 Agriculture, \ox a full rep-rt of the p;.pers ihemsrives (Vol. i, pp. 1-56) as 

 coirpared wiih the reports of the tii>cussions that followed as given on 

 pp. 62-80 in the Proceedings of the Congress, which apprared first. 

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 with ahstracis of Papers, and the Discussions in full. 407 pages. 

 Weight 24 oz. los. net. [b) The 'transactions, without discussions. 

 Vol. i, dealing with Technical education (in the Tropics), Cotton, Fibres 

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