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Societies and Banks will form the subject of another 
meeting, at which Sir Horace Plunkett will take the 
chair. Sir Ronald Ross will preside at a discussion on 
Sanitation and Hygiene on Tropical Estates. 
The Congress is especially indebted to the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, one of our Honorary Vice- 
Presidents, who is to preside at a meeting at which the 
cultivation of cotton is to be discussed. Mr. Harcourt 
has shown great personal interest and has rendered 
valuable assistance in the organization of this Congress. 
Sectional meetings will be held to discuss papers on 
cotton, rubber, cocoa, tobacco and fibres. At the meet- 
ing at which cocoa is to be considered the chair will 
be taken by Sir Hugh Clifford, the Governor of the 
Gold Coast, where cocoa cultivation has made enormous 
strides in recent years. At the meeting at which papers 
on Jute and Hemp Fibres will be read Mr. C. C. 
McLeod, Chairman of the London Jute Association, 
will take the chair. 
A special paper will be read on the Work of the 
British Cotton Growing Association by the Chairman, 
Mr. J. Arthur Hutton, at which Lord Derby, the 
President of the Association, will take the chair. Lord 
Emmott, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and 
a member of a firm of cotton spinners, will be among 
the speakers. Other special papers are on The Fibre 
Industry of British East Africa, by Mr. Alfred 
Wigglesworth; on The Utilization of Sun Power 
for Irrigation and other Purposes in Tropical Agri- 
culture, by Mr. Frank Shuman; and on the Karakul 
Sheep, by Professor Wallace. 
In order to get through our work it will be necessary 
to meet in the afternoons as well as in the mornings, 
and to commence the proceedings as a rule at 10.30 in 
the morning, with an interval of about an hour in the 
middle of the day and of half an hour in the afternoon, 
the work of the meetings terminating at 6 p.m. 
SoME RECENT ADVANCES IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. 
In the four years which have elapsed since the last 
International Congress met in Brussels many important 
developments in tropical agriculture have taken place 
