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countries that the certificates which you issue are of any value 
at all. That is the only point I should like to bring out now, Sir. 
The Cuatrman: I do not know whether Dr. Warburg, or 
any other member, wishes to make a motion for the appoint- 
ment of a Committee. Mr. Rogers has suggested some lines 
upon which such a Committee might proceed. For myself, if 
I may be permitted to do so, I should like to express the 
opinion that I do not think such a Committee is necessary for 
this purpose, or that it would be likely to be more efficient 
than the agencies which we have already established for dealing 
with these matters. The International Institute at Rome has 
taken a great interest in this matter of plant diseases from the 
first, and, as Sir James Wilson has stated, it maintains a Bureau 
for recording the progress of legislation and the work of insti- 
tutions for dealing with the diseases of plants. All the Govern- 
ments of Europe are represented in that Institute. The Govern- 
ment of Germany is represented by Dr. Miller, a most efficient 
and active member of the Bureau, who takes a great interest 'n 
this matter; and the Government of France is represented by 
M. Louis Dop, who is one of the principal movers on this 
subject. The Government of France, I may add, has been 
the Government which has taken special interest in promoting 
international action in regard to plant disease legislation. Now 
this Institute at Rome exists, and is in working order. It 
publishes month by month a Bulletin in which it is now seek- 
ing to record absolutely the stage which has been arrived at 
by any country, both in regard to its institutions for dealing 
with plant diseases, and with regard to the extent to which 
disease prevails. For that purpose the public reports of every 
country are carefully scrutinized and abstracted, and I do not 
think any Committee would be able to get more full details 
than are already furnished by the countries which are turning 
their serious attention to this matter, and publishing annual 
reports. We must rely upon honesty in this matter, and upon 
public spirit; and as in human diseases, so also in plant 
diseases, all States are beginning to recognize more and more 
that what is to the interest of all is the immediate notification 
of any disease which exists, the public recognition of it, and, 
having got notification and public recognition of the disease, 
that steps should be taken to eradicate it. You have there- 
fore in the Institute at Rome a permanent Committee whose 
members are specially interested in the work which this 
specially appointed Corhmittee of yours would undertake; and 
I think a permanent Committee is much more likely to do 
useful and continuous work than a new Committee started by 
this Congress. The lines upon which the International Agri- 
cultural Institute at Rome should be permitted to work are 
