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Congress of Agriculture has taken it. We have at Rome this 
strong institute, which is well endowed, and which is strong 
because of the great interest which various European Govern- 
ments—much more so than the British Government—have 
taken in sending able men to that institute in order to promote 
the interests of agriculture all over the world, both in their 
dependencies and in their own countries. And I have no doubt 
myself whatever, from the part I have taken in the proceedings 
of that institute, that it is going on to be a stronger and more 
important institution than it is, both as a collecting house for 
information, which it disseminates through its three great 
bulletins, and also as a means of securing international under- 
standings, conventions, and regulations with regard to 
agriculture, and bringing up the inspection, regulation, and 
sanitation of agriculture to a higher level all over the world 
than at present. It is a strong institute, a permanent institute, 
and an institute which I believe is going to play a great part 
in the future of the world. Now the International Congress 
of Agriculture which met last year at Ghent sent to the 
Agricultural Institute at Rome a recommendation that the 
members of the Rome Committee who specially represent the 
agricultural countries should pay special attention to them in 
the proceedings of the institute, and I think this Congress 
should do the same; it should associate itself with the Inter- 
national Agricultural Institute at Rome, and recognize that 
institute as a permanent workshop for international under- 
standings and information, and should recommend its proceed- 
ings to that institute, so that any observations it may have to 
make, for instance, on the Phytopathological Convention, 
should go direct to that institute as from this Congress, and 
should also go to it as from the representatives of the various 
Governments represented on this Congress. The final accept- 
ance of such a convention is to be decided by the Governments 
concerned, and they would not enter into any convention 
without consulting their tropical dependencies as to whether 
those dependencies should be involved or not. But what I 
wished to support in Sir James Wilson’s speech was the 
importance of this Congress of Tropical Agriculture asso- 
ciating itself with the making use of the International Institute 
at Rome in the same way as the International Congress of 
Agriculture at Ghent has done. I have great pleasure in 
supporting the resolution. 
Mr. H. Hamer Smirn: Whilst I do not want in any way to 
go against the proposal, I would like to say, speaking purely 
as a layman in the matter, that things move so quickly in the 
tropics that I believe that any central body that has to do with 
the organization of action against pests would do better work 
