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subject of this sort ought to be very encouraging to the 
districts which we represent. 
The Cuarrman: I wish first of all to thank the lecturer for 
the most interesting address written by himself and Dr. 
Sansom. I entirely and cordially endorse almost everything he 
has said. I am fully acquainted with the work that is being 
done in the Federated Malay States, and have followed it for 
many years. I wish to mention here also the name of Dr. 
Malcolm Watson, who is well known in connection with the 
very active measures he has persuaded the planters and the 
Government to adopt in certain parts of the Federated Malay 
States. I must congratulate Mr. Evans also upon the 
thoroughness shown by his system, of which I quite approve. 
I am afraid there is no time for me to say more on his very 
interesting paper, although there are many points in it which 
I would like to discuss. I want also to thank Dr. Fernando 
for his very excellent idea that a standing Committee should 
be formed to deal with malaria in Ceylon. He himself has 
done much important and useful work in connection with 
malaria in Ceylon, and if he could get such a Committee 
formed it would doubtless be able to do a great deal of good. 
Of course, Ceylon is a country in which very much useful work 
of all kinds has been done in general sanitation and in the 
sanitation of plantations, and I feel that they will get ahead 
very soon. I think Sir Sydney Olivier’s remarks, too, have been 
very interesting, and I wish particularly to explain a point that 
he referred to, namely, the fact that coolies suffer from malaria 
when they are moved off to other places. The Jamaica coolies, 
for instance, are almost free from malaria when they are in 
Jamaica, but when they go to Panama they are at once 
attacked. The same thing has been observed in many other 
places. We must remember, however, that there are three 
different diseases included under the head of malaria, and 
the coolies may become immune to one of the malarial 
diseases in Jamaica, and may be attacked by another species 
of parasite when they get to Panama. That is one explanation, 
but there are many others. Now in thanking the lecturer 
and all the speakers, I should like to conclude with a sug- 
gestion, namely, that this Congress of Tropical Agriculture 
should appoint a standing Committee to consider the whole 
of this very important subject—important to agriculture and 
important to humanity—that this Committee should consider 
it and report its findings to the next meeting of the Congress. 
I am not a member of the Congress, and I am not a tropical 
agriculturist, but I believe that this course might commend 
itself to the Organizing Committee of the Congress. There 
is not time to discuss such a resolution, but I believe your 
