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interest in the proceedings, that if we still have plenty of 

 work in front of us before we can hope to see the colleges 

 established, that (to some folks) hopeless uphill pull we 

 have hitherto had " all on our own " is now being shared 

 with others. With such help if the goal is not yet in 

 sight, it will henceforth be more a matter of diplomacy 

 than hard fighting, and of pulling together, East and 

 West in friendly unison, along a fairly level road, taking 

 care only to avoid any pitfalls. This will, however, be 

 easier than the uphill work we have had during the past 

 four or five years. This opinion was considerably 

 strengthened when we were told that the King, who is 

 patron both of the International Congress of Tropical -Agri- 

 culture as well as of the Rubber Exhibition and Congress, 

 sent the following message of welcome to tiie delegates 

 gathered together at the Imperial Institute: — 



" It is with much pleasure that I welcome to London 

 the delegates of the International Congress of Tropical 

 Agriculture. The miportance of their deliberations and 

 the number and variety of subjects to be discussed are of 

 especial interest to me. I trust that their discussions will 

 contribute to the advancement of agriculture in the 

 Tropics. — George, R.I." 



Taking the President's speech first. Professor Dunstan 

 in his address of welcome ' to the delegates taking part, in 

 the Congress very truly said that there was no subject at 

 the present time in the whole field of human activity which 

 demanded greater attention than the organization of those 

 agencies which made for the agricultural productivity of 

 the tropical regions of the world. The subject was of 

 importance to the native races of the Tropics, who were 

 coming more and more under European control and in- 

 fluence, and who looked to the example of European know- 

 ledge and experience for guidance in increasing the 

 productivity of the soil. It was of no less importance to 



' Delivered, be it remembered, before such men as Lord Emmott when 

 Under Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Sudeley, Sir George Reid, who 

 was at that lime High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Sydney Olivier 

 (ex-Governor of Jamaica and later on Permanent Secretary to our Board 

 of Agriculture), Sir Horace Plunkett, Sir Hugh Clifford (Governor of the 

 Gold Coast), Sir H. Hesketh Bell (Governor of the Leeward Islands), 

 Sir Henry Blake, Sir George Denton, Sir Frank Swettenham, Sir 

 Frederic M. Hodgson, Sir James Wilson, Sir William Schlich, the Hon. 

 Gideon Murray (Administrator of St. Vincent), Sir E. Rosling, Mr. Arno 

 Schmidt (International Federation of Cotton Spinners), Mr. J. Arthur 

 Ilutton (Chairman of the British Cotton Growing Association), Mr. 

 Wilson Fox (Biitish South Africa Company), and others. 



