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about all that goes on in relation to agriculture in every 
country. Now that is the very body to collect this information. 
It published the other day a monograph! on the services of 
different phytopathologists—that is to say, on the arrange- 
ments different countries have made for obtaining information 
on this subject, and that was obtained by the Governments 
themselves. Now ‘the very best means that this tropical 
Congress has of getting such information is to address the 
International Agricultural Institute at Rome—which has a 
staff always there—and ask them to collect through their 
Government delegates the information which you desire. I am 
sure from the experience I have had of the Institute, and from 
conversations with my fellow delegates on the Committee 
there, that the Institute would receive such an application with 
pleasure, and the delegates would probably impress it upon 
their Governments. I make this as a practical suggestion, 
which I think would form the best means of carrying out the 
proposal which Professor Carmody has put forward. 
The Presipent: I think it might be considered whether the 
International Agricultural Institute at Rome would be able 
to do what Professor Carmody has in view; but I would like 
to point out that at the discussion on phytopathology which 
took place the other day (p. 107) it appeared that the Agri- 
cultural Institute at Rome had proposed a Convention which 
would not be applicable to some tropical countries, and that 
specific information with regard to tropical countries had not 
been collected by the Institute of Agriculture at Rome. I 
pointed out that the International Association for Tropical 
Agriculture, under whose auspices this Congress meets, is very 
considerably older than the International Agricultural Institute 
at Rome, and was specially formed to deal with matters con- 
nected with tropical agriculture. If by means of co-operation 
with the International Agricultural Institute at Rome our 
work could be simplified, no doubt it would be a good thing, 
but whether the International Agricultural Institute at Rome 
is exactly the best body to discuss what has been done in 
regard to tropical agriculture is a matter upon which I am not 
convinced. We have already an association for collecting such 
information—our own International Association for Tropical 
Agriculture—but I think the suggestion of Sir James Wilson 
is one which ought to be considered by the Committee 
appointed to determine the best way of getting what we wish. 
Dr. E. J. Butter (Imperial Mycologist, India): With regard 
to Sir James Wilson’s observation and the President’s explana- 
tion, the volume which’ Sir James Wilson referred to was a 
complete account of the organization of phytopathological 
