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concerned to realize that we are very much in earnest with 
regard to our wish and desire to do our best for tropical 
agriculture. We realize very strongly in Great Britain that 
for various reasons, political and otherwise, large sums of 
money are being invested in tropical agriculture, and the 
different colonies in the tropics are simply touting for men 
who will be able to serve them. I can speak, of course, more 
particularly of my own college, the Royal Agricultural College 
at Cirencester, which is the pioneer college, and which, having 
no local ties, is more free perhaps for this Imperial work than 
some of the others. I think, gentlemen, it is important— 
very important—to understand that the ordinary training of a 
college in agriculture, provided it embodies really sound 
scientific work, is able to turn out very satisfactory agricul- 
turists indeed. I can only tell you that a number of our own 
students, who have not had any specialized training in tropical 
agriculture, have done good work in the various colonies that 
engage in tropical agriculture, one being Mr. Kelway 
Bamber, who is known, I believe, pretty intimately to Mr. 
Lyne; also Mr. James Mollison, formerly Inspector-General of 
Agriculture for India; Sir J. Muir Mackenzie, K.C.S.I., who 
had an important post in the Bombay Presidency (he was on 
the Council of the Governor); Mr. Despeissis, who did work 
in the tropical parts of Australia; Mr. Neville, who was in 
the Sudan, and so on. But, in spite of that, it is clearly 
desirable that there should be a little tincture of tropical work 
in the preliminary training, though I very much oppose and 
resist any attempt to give training with a ‘‘ bias ’’—that horrid 
word which has been introduced by our Board of Education 
with regard to ‘“‘rural bias,’’ and so forth. I submit, gentle- 
men, that training in tropical entomology is the same as train- 
ing in any other entomology. There is only one entomology 
known to me, and I speak as a professional zoologist. When 
you give a “tropical bias,’’ you simply give tropical illus- 
trations and so forth, and I fancy that a man who has been 
properly trained in this country in any branch of science is 
competent to take up tropical work in that science. 
But I really must traverse one or two points in the paper of 
Mr. Dudgeon. The chief thing to which I object there is 
that it is a bit too cut-and-dried, and I do not think that we 
have come to the cut-and-dried stage yet. I do not know that 
a diploma should be an absolutely essential preliminary to 
going to a tropical college, because the training will differ 
according to the aim in view. A man may wish to be an 
expert planter, or an administrator, or he may wish to go in for 
research; and it does not follow that the best way of pursuing 
