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Congress, or before that event for publication by the 
International Association. 
I have ventured to suggest three questions of general 
importance for special consideration which it may be 
convenient to deal with in this way. 
(1) The establishment of an Imperial College of 
Tropical Agriculture, (2) the formation of a British 
Institute of Tropical Agriculture, which more par- 
ticularly concerns the British Section of the Inter- 
national Association, and (3) the question of the con- 
stitution of the International Association considered as 
a federation of Central Societies in the capitals of 
European countries, in communication with Agricul- 
tural Societies and Institutions in the tropics. 
I may now bring this address—already, I fear, too 
long—to a close with an expression of the hope that the 
first meeting of the Congress in the capital of the British 
Empire may result not only in a satisfactory interchange 
of views between the representatives of various nations 
and the advancement of several important matters of 
tropical agriculture, but also contribute to the formation 
of those personal friendships between agriculturists of 
different nationalities which have such a_ powerful 
influence in promoting that extension of knowledge 
which is our common desire. 
The Right Hon. Sir G&orce ReEip, G.C.M.G. 
(High Commissioner for Australia): Mr. President, my 
Lords, and Gentlemen—When I was very reluctantly 
emerging from my slumbers this morning I was con- 
fronted with a letter from your two invaluable Secre- 
taries, sending me a copy of the President’s address, 
and asking that I should move a vote of thanks. 
Now there are several reasons why I at once accepted 
this task. In the first place I am fully aware, as the 
representative of Australia in this country, of the in- 
tense zeal and ability with which Professor Dunstan 
fills his highly responsible and publicly useful post as 
Director of the Imperial Institute. 
I do not think I have ever seen this Imperial Institute 
to greater advantage than I do just now, in the presence 
of this remarkable and distinguished assembly of the 
representatives of tropical agriculture of all nations. 
Now I had another reason for accepting the task at 
