1920.] Notices of Books. 189 



The recommendation of the Committee, with the exception of one 

 member, are : — 



(a) that market faciUties ought to be administered not in the 



interest of private owners or of scj^arate Local Aulliorities, 

 but in the pubhc interest. 



(b) that full legal powers and full financial resources should be 



made available for that purpose. 



(c) that the administration of these powers should be vested 



in one Central Authority for the whole of Greater London. 



This Central Authority should have power, inter alia, to acquire 

 compulsorily land and other property ; to raise funds necessary for 

 the purchase of existing interests, or for the establishment of new 

 markets to close existing markets, or to remove them to more suitable 

 sites, and to make provision for any questions of compensation that 

 may arise in connection therewith ; to fix tolls, rents and other charges 

 payable by users of the markets ; and to erect and maintain any 

 subsidiary buildings or undertakings for the benefit of such markets, 

 such as cold storage, or other warehouse accommodation, and plant 

 and equipment for the manufacture of ice, and the utilisation of market 

 refuse, waste material, etc. 



It is recommended that (c) should be adopted without delay, and that 

 a Market Authority covering approximate!}' the area known as Greater 

 London should be established to exercise the powers and functions 

 outlined. 



An appendix is added to the Report, giving a list of wholesale food 

 markets in London. 



Report of the Tropical Agrrlcultural Collegre Committee. — Cmd. 562 

 (London : H.M. Stationery Office, 1920, 2d. net). This Keport contains 

 the findings of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies in August last to consider the desirability of establishing 

 a Tropical Agricultural College in the British West Indies. The 

 Committee was unanimously of opinion that steps should be taken to 

 found a Tropical Agricultural College in the British West Indies, and 

 recommends, after giving careful consideration to the question of locality, 

 that it should be established at Trinidad. 



In the opinion of the Committee there is a great need in the West 

 Indies for scientific investigators and advisers, and also of a body of 

 British expert agriculturists well versed in a knowledge of the cultivation 

 of land in the tropics, to develop the resources of the Islands. It lays 

 emphasis on the view that the establishment of such a College is a 

 matter of Imperial concern. 



It is recommended that the staff of the College should include teachers 

 with the status of Professors in the subjects of general agriculture, 

 mycology, entomology, agricultural chemistry, organic chemistry', 

 agricultural bacteriology, agricultural and physiological botany-, 

 genetics, sugar technology, and agricultural engineering and physics, 

 and teachers with the status of Lecturers in stock and veterinary science 

 and book-keeping. 



The Report contains a number of recommendations as to the type 

 of College needed and other matters included in the terms of reference. 



