TUESDAY, JUNE 23, MORNING SESSION. 
Inaugural Meeting. 
THE inaugural meeting of the Congress was held in 
the Jehanghier Hall of the Imperial Institute on 
Tuesday, June 23, at 11 a.m. The chair was 
taken by the President, who was supported on the plat- 
form by the principal officers of the Congress, and 
among others present were Lord Emmott, Lord Sudeley, 
Sir George Reid, Sir Sydney Olivier, Sir Horace 
Plunkett, Sir Hugh Clifford, Sir H. Hesketh Bell, Sir 
Henry Blake, Sir George Denton, Sir Frank Swetten- 
ham, Sir Frederic M. Hodgson, Sir James Wilson, 
Sir William Schlich, Sir W. Haynes Smith, Sir J- 
Muir Mackenzie, the Hon. C. Gideon Murray, Sir E. 
Rosling, Mr. J. Arthur Hutton and Mr. Wilson Fox. 
The Representatives and Delegates to the Congress. 
(see p. 7) were formally received by the President and 
introduced to the Congress. 
The President then delivered the following 
OPENING ADDRESS 
By PRroFessoR WynpDHAM R. Dunstan, C.M.G., 
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 
President of the International Association for Tropical 
Agriculture, Director of the Imperial Institute. 
My Lords and Gentlemen,— 
The International Congress of Tropical Agriculture, 
which we meet to open to-day, is the third which has 
been held under the auspices of the International 
Association for Tropical Agriculture, the first having 
taken place in Paris in 1905 and the second in Brussels 
in 1910. At the close of the Brussels Congress the 
members of the Association did me the honour to elect 
me as President of the Association in succession to the 
veteran M. de Lanessan, who, as Governor-General of 
Indo-China and afterwards as Minister responsible 
for the French Colonies in the Government of the 
