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different. I should add that if a school is estabhshed, 

 either in the East or in the West, the Belgian Congo will 

 certainly wish to send some students to learn from the 

 experience of the older countries." 



" Wherever the tropical agricultural college may be 

 located," said Dr. Tempany, at that time attached to 

 the Agricultural Department, Leeward Islands, but now 

 Director of Agriculture at Mauritius, " we can never hope 

 to realize within any one locality the broad range of con- 

 ditions which prevail throughout the Tropics, but the men 

 who attend the colleges will realize what after all is the 

 main thing, the atmosphere permeating the whole of the 

 Tropics, and the college will provide a focus and a centre 

 for those tropical countries where research work is being 

 done, and will serve as a stimulus and a guide to many 

 of us who are attempting to do, in the intervals of our 

 other occupations, a certain amount of purely scientific 

 work under our isolated conditions." 



Truly had the father of the idea reason to be pleased 

 with the results of the discussion, to which he had also^ 

 contributed in the morning by incorporating in the impor- 

 tant presidential address that he delivered at the opening of 

 the Congress, a splendid appeal for providing the necessary 

 technical and scientific education needed by those who 

 desire to make tropical agriculture the work of their lives. 

 To-day this is a subject which is claiming the considera- 

 tion of all nations interested in the Tropics, it being too 

 well known that the training of those men who are destined 

 to fill important berths in the various Departments of 

 Agriculture in the Tropics is not, at present, definitely 

 provided for, but is left to chance. 



" The subject is bound to come up at other meetings," 

 said Professor Dunstan, when closing the discussion wilh 

 palpable regret, "but since the opening of the Congress 

 the question of an Imperial Agricultural College in the 

 Tropics has assumed an international character," and the 

 President was right. Much has happened since then, and 

 more is bound to happen still before the question of 

 establishing British agricultural colleges in the Tropics 

 can once more occupy the important position in practical 

 politics that it occupied in 1914, but it is time, however, 

 that we started to gather together the lost threads again — • 

 some of them, we fear, broken beyond repair, but these 

 can be replaced by others— and we must see to it that, 

 as soon as the time is ripe, no further delay occurs in 

 establishing these much-needed colleges, and let us make 



