1909.] 



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of Commercial Intelligence at Calcutta copies of the first edition of the 

 programme, rules, and regulations relating to an industrial and agri- 

 cultural exhibition which is to be held at Lahore in November next. 



Intending exhibitors should send to the Secretary of the Exhibition, 

 Bharat Buildings, Lahore, a list of their proposed exhibits on the 

 printed form attached to the programme : these lists will be received 

 up to 1st September. Exhibits will be received from 1st October to 

 15th November. 



Copies of the programme may be obtained by British firms interested 

 on application at the Commercial Intelligence "Branch of the Board of 

 Trade, 73 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. (Board of Trade Journal, 

 July i$th, 1909.) 



Exhibition at Rostov-on-Don. — With reference to the notice in this 

 Journal, June, 1909 (p. 221), relative to an agricultural and industrial 

 exhibition to be held at Rostov-on-Don in September and October next, 

 the Acting British Consul-General at Odessa (Mr. C. Goodwin) has 

 forwarded a number of copies in Russian of the programme of the 

 exhibition. These may be obtained by British firms interested, on ap- 

 plication at the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, 

 73 Basinghall Street, London, E.C. 



Congress on Colonial Agriculture. — The International Scientific 

 Association of Colonial Agronomy, the creation of which was 

 decided upon at the first International Congress of Colonial 

 and Tropical Agronomy in Paris in 1905, will hold its second 

 Congress at Brussels in 1910. The International Exhibition, which will 

 take place at the same time, will afford an opportunity for the investiga- 

 tion of many questions relating to tropical science. The date of the 

 Congress will be chosen in agreement with the Committee of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Botany, so as to allow the participation in the 

 Congress of Colonial Agronomy of members of the Congress of Botany. 

 The object of the International Association is the scientific and practical 

 study of all the questions relating to tropical and colonial agriculture. 



Congress for the Preservation of Natural Features.— An international 

 Congress will be held at Paris from 17th to 20th October, 1909, on the 

 initiative of the Societe pour la Protection des Paysages de France. The 

 subjects with which it is proposed to deal include the preservation of 

 the natural features of the country both by private effort and public 

 control, the preservation of sites of interest, historically or otherwise, 

 the improvement of the architecture of towns, the prevention of the 

 dis-afforestation of woodlands, &c. 



The Crop Estimators of the Board, in reporting on the condition and 

 prospects of the principal crops on the 15th July, generally comment 

 on the backwardness of the season as corn- 

 Report on Crop pared with former years, caused more par- 

 Prospects in July. ticularly by the cold and dry spell of weather 

 during May and the first two or three weeks 

 of June, which has retarded the growth of late sown corn and early 

 root crops, and has especially resulted in a deficient growth of grass. 

 The abundant rains which fell from the third week of June onward 

 appear to have had beneficial effects on the growth of the crops 



