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progress, if you will make allowance for the conditions under 
which we are working. 
Another point I would like to mention is this: that I think 
the members of our International Association for Tropical 
Agriculture would be brought a little more closely together 
if it were made a definite rule that we should exchange publica- 
tions with each other as an international body working on the 
same lines. Of course, as you know, most of us do so at 
present; but I think if it were made a general rule that every 
member of the Association who is conducting experimental 
work should send his publications to every other member of 
the International Association we should be in closer touch with 
each other, and when we met at the end of four years we should 
know a great deal more about each other’s work even than 
we do at present. 
The Prestpent: I should like at once to dispel any im- 
pression there may be that I underrate in any way the agricul- 
tural work that has been done in the British Colonies by 
Government Departments of Agriculture. On the contrary, 
I have the greatest admiration for that work. What I wished 
to emphasize was that, owing to lack of funds at present, it 
was not possible to provide adequately for research; and what 
I wanted to indicate was that more money ought to be allotted 
for that purpose. Professor Carmody has quite rightly said 
that a very large amount of excellent work has been done with 
very small endowment, and I expressed that very definitely in my 
Address. I quite agree with him in thinking that we do want to 
get information as to how the Government Departments of 
Agriculture in all tropical colonies are organized, the salaries 
paid to their officers, and the total amount put at their disposal 
by their respective Governments. I think that is a piece of 
information which would be exceedingly useful in many 
directions, and I am going to suggest to Professor Carmody 
that if he thinks it desirable to put that into the form of a 
resolution, it might be carried out by means of a Committee 
appointed for getting all that information together. I am not 
aware of any publication at the present time which gives us 
these facts. 
Sir JAMEs Witson: Mr. President—With reference to the 
particular point of collecting information as to research 
in tropical countries, I do not know whether members 
of this Congress are fully aware that we have an in- 
stitution already in existence at Rome for that very 
purpose. That institution, the International Agricultural 
Institute, has been established by all the governments of the 
world, including most of those countries which have tropical 
colonies, and very considerable information is furnished! to it 
