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Departments, the necessary facilities and assistance 
should be provided. It will no doubt be said that this 
involves additional expense, but it is expense which it 
is well worth while to incur in the interests of the 
countries concerned. 
The amount of expenditure in connection with 
Government Agricultural Departments in the British 
tropical colonies, though greater than it was, is still 
very small in relation to their importance, and to the 
large amount of valuable work which is being done. 
In India the College for higher instruction and 
research, established at Pusa in Bengal, is now entirely 
devoted to research on questions of general importance 
to India. The Central Research Institute, as it 
is now called, is performing work of great value 
to Indian agriculture as a’ whole. At the same 
time its efforts should not lead India to overlook 
the fact that with the great diversity of conditions which 
prevail throughout that great continent, research is also 
called for in each of the Provincial Departments of 
Agriculture, where scientific investigation should be 
chiefly directed to problems of local importance. The 
results of investigations conducted in one district of 
Bengal often require re-investigation in their relation to 
different conditions in other places. The Research 
Institute at Pusa cannot in any case be expected to deal 
with all the agricultural research which is called for 
throughout India, and the prosperity of the Provincial 
Departments of Agriculture is intimately connected 
with the power which is given to them of acquiring 
new knowledge with special reference to problems of 
local importance. 
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE INTERNATIONAL 
ASSOCIATION, 
The deliberations of the Congress are to extend to a 
large number of important subjects relating to the 
various aspects of tropical agriculture and industries. 
It will be within the province of the meetings of the 
Congress to recommend the appointment of Special 
Committees to collect information on any subject in 
which it may be considered useful to take action with 
a view to a report being presented either to the next 
