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M. Brenter (Indo-China): As I understand it, this matter is 
of some urgency. Might it not perhaps be useful that Govern- 
ment representatives at this Congress should be invited to make 
known to their Governments the terms of this resolution? If 
the Governments are going to adopt the Convention without 
knowing there is any objection in scientific quarters to it 
perhaps the report will come too late, whereas if the Govern- 
ment representatives at this Congress immediately make 
known to their Governments what the resolution of the 
Congress is, we might be in time to influence any action that 
may be taken. 
The Presipent: That is a very useful suggestion; it will 
require an addition to the resolution as proposed and seconded. 
This course having been agreed to by the proposer and 
seconder, the following addition was made to the motion : — 
“And that the official representatives attending the 
Congress should communicate this resolution to their 
Governments.”’ 
The resolution, thus modified, was put to the meeting by the 
President and carried unanimously. 
The PRESIDENT: The next subject for consideration is the 
question of the desirability of proceeding to form a British 
Institute of Tropical Agriculture. This again is a subject 
to which I alluded very fully in my address as being in my 
view an urgent necessity at the present time, both in the 
interests of the subject and of those who are engaged in it. 
Professor P. Carmopy (Director of Agriculture, Trinidad) : 
Mr. President—The matter has been very fully explained by 
yourself, and I think it is quite clearly understood by all the 
members of the Congress that it is desirable that such an 
institute should be formed. It is hardly necessary for me to 
remind you that there is not a single class of professional man 
—and even not always professional men—who are working 
at a subject for a common purpose, who have not banded 
themselves together into a society or institute of some kind for 
the purpose of advancing their interests. There are dozens— 
hundreds—of societies of the kind. The latest one that has 
been formed, and which is very nearly similar to our own, 
is the Institute of Petroleum Technologists. Recently the 
search for petroleum has necessitated the finding of workers in 
all parts of the world, and it has been very difficult indeed to 
find men with a sufficient knowledge of petroleum to be able 
to satisfy that industry. In consequence of that a school or 
college has been formed in this country for the purpose of 
teaching the mining of petroleum. And arising out of that 
