August, 1912.] 



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ings at which the subject can be dis- 

 cussed and the importance of the move- 

 ments and the advantages of such a 

 college brought before the notice of 

 those who might possibly become in- 

 terested in the scheme. 



Another Meeting 

 with somewhat of the same object, was 

 held on April 26fch, just a week before 

 the Tropical Life gathering,* when Dr. 

 A. E. Shipley, Master of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, read a paper before the 

 Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute 

 and their friends on " Universities and 

 Practical Education" ; Dr. G« R. Parkin, 

 L.L.D., C.M.G., formerly Principal of 

 Upper Canada College, but who since 

 1902 has been so prominently to the front 

 as organizing representative of the 

 Rhodes Scholarship Trust, occupying 

 the chair. 



Among the unusually large audience 

 present were : Sir William Anson, M.P. ; 

 Sir W. Vaughan Morgan, Bart. ; Prof. 

 A. Smithells; Prof. H. B. Allen (Mel- 

 bourne) ; Prof. Darnely Naylor ; Mr. J. 

 C. Medd ; The Master of Downing 

 College (Prof. Marsh); Prof. Robert 

 Wallace (Edinburgh University), Mr. 

 SamuelSimpson (Director of Agriculture, 

 Uganda) ; Sir Godfrey Lagden, k.C.m.g. ; 

 Judge Roseby (New Hebrides) and the 

 Editor of Tropical Life- 



Prof. Allen (Melbourne) opened the 

 discussion, other speakers including 

 Prof. Robert Wallace, Prof. Marsh 

 (Downing College), and the Chairman ; a 

 full report of the paper and discussion 

 will appear in the United Empire (the 

 journal of the R. C. I.). 



Readers of Tropical Life will all agree 

 with Dr. Shipley when he urged a 

 more liberal study of geography, and 

 that " those who aspire to seek their 

 fortunes in Greater Britian should be 

 given opportunity to study chemistry, 

 geology, botany, forestry, agriculture 

 and the like, to enable them to go forth 

 qualified and tested, and adapatable to 

 new ci rcumstan ces and environments." 



•Originally both meetings were to have beqn 

 hela on April 26th, the idea being to go on to 

 the Royal Colonial Institute from our offices ; 

 Mr. Medd, however, had to go up North, so ouc 

 meeting was postponed. 

 17 



Here is the nucleus of our scheme, 

 viz., for students to learn all they can 

 over herb and then go to a college over- 

 seas and 



SPECIALIZE IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, 

 and it falls in with the lecturer's ideas. 

 " For have we not to educate many boys 

 and young men for life in the colonies 

 and other countries ? " continued Dr. 

 Shipley. " It is the young man with the 

 greatest power to compete with the 

 developing methods of other countries 

 who will be the most sought after by 

 the busy man of commerce and industry. 

 The young men whose minds have been 

 broadened and sharpened by some prac- 

 tical experience,* who are adaptable to 

 new conditions, are those who command 

 the highest economic value." One of 

 the main points advanced by cur editor 

 when giving evidence before the Depart- 

 mental Committee appointed in 1907 or 

 1908, and presided over by Lord Reay, 

 to inquire into and report upon the sub- 

 ject of agricultural education of this 

 side, was the granting of travelling 

 allowances to enable 



THOSE STUDYING AGRICULTURE 



with a view of settling ia the Tropics 

 or Colonies, whether as members of a 

 Government Agricultural Department 

 or as planters or estate managers, to 

 become acquainted with methods in 

 use at centres other than the one 

 in which they already reside or are 

 setting out for. Two other witnesses, 

 Mr. William McCracken, formerly Pro- 

 fessor of Agriculture at the Royal Agri- 

 cultural College, Cirencestor, and Pro- 

 fessor Winter, M.A., Professor of Agri- 

 culture at the University of North 

 Wales, at Bangor, advocated a similar 

 measure, which was accepted by the 

 Committee and specially mentioned in 

 their report, by " strongly urging that 

 the Board of Agriculture should provide 

 — as is done in other countries— scholar- 

 ships enabling the holder to undertake 

 post-graduate research, and also travel- 



* Italics ours, thinking of the necessity for 

 thosewishing to become first-class planters and 

 estate managers in the Tropics to obtain practi- 

 cal experience in an agricultural college on the 

 spot. 



