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But no congress that I ever had anything to do with has 
been entirely satisfactory to those who have taken part in it, 
and those of us of British origin have perhaps a particular 
tendency to criticize all that we ourselves do and take part in. 
And if you will allow me to mention them, there are two 
problems which, it appears to me, will have to be considered 
before the Congress meets again. We shall have to consider 
how to get through our business in a week; we have had 
a very large number of papers, but my own feeling has 
been that the time for discussion has not been  suffi- 
ciently long, and yet it was practically impossible to 
provide any more. Some of our Continental friends 
desire to make proposals with a view to improving this 
matter of discussion: at the next meeting of the Con- 
gress. There is another aspect of our work which I 
personally feel is very important, but again, time is the 
difficulty; and that is the few opportunities one has had of 
personal intercourse with those one meets from abroad but 
rarely. Speaking for myself these opportunities have been 
too few, and I find that the smoking-room which was provided 
at the beginning of the Congress has not been so largely 
used as one could wish. The reason for that is that we have 
met from about ten o’clock in the morning till about six 
in the evening, and there has been but a very short interval 
for lunch, and a shorter interval (often encroached on) for 
tea, so that there has been very little opportunity for us to 
meet in other ways. That is a matter which we ought in 
some way or other to try to improve. 
We have had the great pleasure of receiving a number of 
very distinguished authorities in tropical agriculture, and the 
Congress has been a very great pleasure to me and, I know, to 
all connected with it, and, so far from pronouncing a funeral 
oration, I already look forward to the time and place of the 
meeting of the next Congress. There seems to be a general 
opinion that it should meet within the next three years. 
Where it shall meet cannot at present, I think, be decided. 
Some of our Continental friends wish to make some sugges- 
tions with regard to that, but I do not think that we can 
to-day, even if time allowed, decide the time and place of 
our next meeting. But wherever it is, we will hope that the 
meeting will be, at least, as large and successful as the 
present Congress. 
M. E. Lepraz (Belgium): I have to say in the name of 
