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say, research is on the back of a diploma. In my opinion the 
matter should be left exceedingly elastic. 
There is only one other word I should like to add, namely, 
that it seems to me that, instead of debating whether it is 
better to go to the East or to go to the West, we should have 
as many colleges as we want—as many as are indicated as 
necessary. I do not know that all of them need be so ex- 
tremely expensive. Now is an opportune moment, because 
there are many fortunate people, I understand, who will now 
only have to pay 1s. 3d. income tax instead of 1s. 4d., and 
numbers of these will no doubt devote the other penny to 
tropical agriculture. I also trust, gentlemen, that we shall 
find in the development of tropical agriculture one other 
powerful means of securing peace, and as a zoologist I cannot 
but recall the enormously good work done by some of the 
zoological marine stations, particularly that at Naples. I am 
quite sure that the fact of students of different nationalities 
having worked side by side in the laboratories there has done 
much to promote good feeling between the various countries, 
and I hope that the different nations will be able similarly to 
co-operate in regard to tropical agriculture. I can only assure 
you, Sir, that the College I represent is extremely anxious to 
continue in future the training, and the better training, of 
British students in order to qualify them to take up work of 
this kind. 
Professor P Carmopy (Director, Department of Agricul- 
ture, Trinidad): Mr. President and Gentlemen—lI think I will 
begin at once by conceding that the East may have a college 
of its own, and I will mention to you a few reasons why I 
think we should have a second college in the West Indies. In 
Trinidad during the last twenty years we have been taking 
very active steps in agricultural education, and have gone far 
to establish the work that a college will do. I think we have 
gone even farther than Mr. Lyne, who says that he has all 
his plans prepared and a site chosen for his college. We have 
the building already erected. It was not specially erected for 
a college, but it is large enough for the purpose. We have 
around it an estate, belonging to the Government, of 3,000 
or 4,000 acres of land, on which sugar and various small 
crops are grown, partly for experiment, and partly by peasant 
proprietors. We have sites for dwellings quite close to the 
building which we intend to have occupied as a college. 
We have a cocoa estate belonging to the Government, on 
which we have at the present time something like 90,000 
trees, and on that estate practical education has been given 
for some three or four years to young men in the colony 
‘who wish to become overseers or managers of estates. I 
