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AN IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE. 
What is now urgently required is an agricultural 
college in the tropics to which men with the diploma 
of an agricultural college at home can proceed, to 
receive a technical education in the subject and 
thoroughly qualify themselves for the profession of 
tropical agriculture. 
In India agricultural colleges have been founded in 
recent years, but the courses of instruction provided are 
chiefly designed to meet the needs of native students, 
and are not adapted to the purpose of the European 
student, who comes equipped with some knowledge of 
general agricultural principles. The same objection 
applies to the otherwise excellent Agricultural College 
at Giza in Egypt. In the Southern United States 
of America several agricultural colleges exist in 
which special courses are given in sub-tropical culti- 
vation, and where the European student may gain 
important knowledge respecting the problems of cotton 
and maize, tobacco and sugar growing. These institu- 
tions, not being situated within the tropical zone, do 
not, however, afford all that special experience and 
knowledge of certain crops which are essential for the 
students whose needs are now being considered. 
No one who has studied this question in its many 
aspects can doubt that great need exists for the 
establishment within the British tropics of at least one 
agricultural college, properly equipped with all the 
facilities for instruction and research in the several 
branches of tropical agriculture. Nor can it be doubted 
that well-trained men with the diploma of such a college 
will readily find remunerative employment. Beyond 
the immediate requirements of the ordinary student such 
a college should become a most important centre of 
tropical agricultural research, not merely for its own 
advanced students, but for trained investigators of 
special subjects from all parts of the world, who would 
there find ample materials and opportunities for their 
researches. 
The question, therefore, is how best to realize the 
conditions necessary for the establishment of such a 
college. To begin with, it is essential to provide a 
