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our chief producing centres. We are glad to 

 see, therefore, that the idea of an agricultural 

 college being urgently needed is rapidly gaining 

 ground. Just before this book was published, 

 a prominent leader writer on agricultural sub- 

 jects in the principal London papers, who had 

 read the articles in Tropical Life and else- 

 where, discussed the matter with us ; whilst 

 the question was 'brought prominently before 

 the Tropical Agricultural Conference, held in 

 Trinidad, W.I., in January (1911), when Mr. 

 Samuel Simpson (now Director of* Agriculture 

 in Uganda), among others, pleaded that steps 

 be taken without delay to establish such a 

 college. 



The Financier, always to the fore in such 

 matters, devoted two columns to the subject 

 in their issue of July 26, 1911. In this they 

 called attention to an article published in 

 Tropical Life for January, 1911, when that 

 paper, following up Professor Wyndham Dun- 

 stan's idea, suggested that a college be founded 

 in Ceylon as a memorial to King Edward VII. 

 After this The Financier dwelt fully and appre- 

 ciatively on Professor Wyndham Dunstan's 

 introductory remarks on the subject in the 

 book issued by the publishing department of 

 Tropical Life, entitled " Notes on Soil and 

 Plant Sanitation on Cacao and Rubber Estates," 

 when they said : 



" The evolution of the idea of an agricultural 

 college for the training of young tropical 



