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President will endorse it, and perhaps you may be persuaded to 
adopt it at once without discussion. It is an evident proposi- 
tion that this Congress should appoint a Committee to deal 
with this subject, and I do not think anyone is likely to 
oppose it. 
The Presipent: Gentlemen—lI should like to support very 
warmly the proposal which Sir Ronald Ross has just made, 
that a Committee should be appointed to consider the various 
details of the very important question which we have discussed 
this morning. It is quite obvious that in a Congress of this 
kind we cannot hope to discuss thoroughly every subject which 
comes before us, but when we realize, as we do this morning, 
that there is an important subject which requires more con- 
sideration than we are able to bestow upon it, our best plan 
is to appoint a Committee to deal with it. I have, there- 
fore, the greatest pleasure in supporting Sir Ronald Ross’s 
proposal, that a Committee should be appointed to deal with 
this question, the Committee to report on or before the 
occasion of the next International Congress. 
The Cuarrman: If you will allow me, I will put that at once 
without discussion, as our time is already finished. I do not 
think anyone will oppose it. That is passed nem. con. 
The PResipENtT: Before we conclude this part of our busi- 
ness, perhaps the meeting will allow me to propose a very 
hearty vote of thanks to the reader of the paper, and to those 
who have taken part in the discussion, and also to Sir Ronald 
Ross for so kindly coming here this morning and presiding at 
this meeting. 
This was carried by acclamation. 
Mr. F. D. Evans: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—I am very 
much obliged to you for the way in which you have received 
this paper by Dr. Sansom and myself. I am only sorry that 
there has not been more active hostile criticism on parts of 
it, because, unless we are up against a certain amount of 
opposition, I have always found that very little is accomplished. 
There are at the door a number of publications of the Agricul- 
tural Department of the Malay States which may possibly be 
of interest to some of you in connection with the proposal 
which was made by our President yesterday with regard to 
the establishment of an agricultural college. Also, if any of 
you are interested in the actual methods which we employ in 
the Malay States to drain land, I should be delighted to explain 
them in the Reading Room immediately after this meeting. 
