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PUBLICATIONS DEVOTED TO TROPICAL AGRICULTURE 
AND RESEARCH. 
By W. R. Dunvop, 
Scientific Assistant to the Imperial Department of Agriculture 
for the West Indies. 
[ ABSTRACT. ] 
The number of journals, official and unofficial, dealing with 
tropical agriculture is large, and is still increasing. The 
writer is of the opinion that there is need for centralization; 
that the literature belonging to any group of colonies should 
be issued as far as possible through a central office, and a clear 
line drawn between literature which is local and that which 
is general in its application. 
Another requirement is greater specialization, particularly 
in respect of papers on applied chemistry, biology, etc., which 
should only appear in journals devoted to these branches of 
science, and not in purely agricultural or commercial journals. 
Amendment in this respect would simplify reference work, and 
would give each kind of information its proper status. 
The writer gives the three principal sources from which 
literature on tropical agriculture originates, and calls special 
attention to the importance of the summarizing publications, 
which are of great value owing to the scattered nature of 
information on the numberless subjects which come within the 
sphere of tropical planting and research. 
The greater portion of the paper is devoted to an 
enumeration of those periodicals which deal especially with 
the various tropical crops of major importance. These notes 
appear under crop headings, viz., rubber, cotton and fibres, 
sugar, tea and rice, coffee and tobacco, coconuts and bananas, 
cacao and citrus fruits. The final section of the paper includes 
a list of the principal publications devoted essentially to plant 
pests and diseases. 
AGRICULTURAL SANITATION IN THE GOLD COAST. 
By W. H. Patrerson, 
Government Entomologist, Gold Coast Colony. 
[No abstract supplied by the author. ] 
