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the point of view of the pastoral system; forest system (in 
particular protection against winds and the fixation of sand 
dunes) and the agricultural system. 
(b) Study of the different species of plants cultivated in 
Tripoli and of those existing in other parts of North Africa and 
elsewhere, which might be introduced with advantage. 
(c) Economic and agricultural study of the formation of 
irrigated and dry plantations; that is to say, the relative costs 
of starting and working these two systems. 
(d) Meteorological service which will include a central obser- 
vatory, six district observatories, and sixteen stations at which 
temperature and rainfall will be recorded. 
The Administrative Section will have its Office at Tripoli, 
and will be in direct connection with the administrative units in 
the various districts. The Technical Section will have its 
Office outside the oasis of Tripoli, at the former Turkish 
Agricultural School, and will have under its control experi- 
mental stations suitably distributed over the various districts 
in addition to the meteorological service for the whole region. 
In the Colonial Budget for the financial year 1914-15 the sum 
of 716,c00 lire has been included for carrying on the work 
of the Department. This sum will be increased during future 
years as the various services are established or improved, and 
will assist in increasing the importance of Italian colonization 
in Tripoli. 
[ Discussion. ] 
Professor P Carmopy (Director of Agriculture, Trinidad) : 
Mr. President—The papers we have heard this morning are 
extremely interesting, and the only fault that I have to find 
is that we have only about an hour to consider them. There 
is a great deal in them that one would have liked to have 
studied beforehand, and I think it would be advisable to con- 
sider whether something more than a mere abstract of the 
papers should not be provided where the subject is of unusual 
importance. The two subjects that we have had this morning 
are so large that it is really difficult to do justice to them, 
unless we had a previous opportunity of considering the views 
that were to be expressed by the readers of the papers. The 
paper by Dr. van Hall is full of suggestions, and so is the 
paper by Mr. Dudgeon from Egypt. Now what I would like 
us to do at some future Congress would be to study the 
methods of organization in connection with Agricultural 
Departments that have been adopted by the different nations. 
I think if we had the results before us of the work done by 
different nations in different tropical countries we should be 
