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BRITISH SECTION, 
The International Association of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development 
was founded at the close of the first International Congress of Tropical Agriculture 
held in Paris in 1905. 
The object of the Association is the promotion of the scientific and practical 
study of all questions connected with tropical agriculture and the development and 
utilisation of the natural resources of the Colonies. The first President of the 
Association was M. de Lanessan, formerly Governor-General of lndo-China and 
Minister for the Colonics in Paris, who held that office until May, 1910, when he 
was succeeded by Professor Wyndham Dunstan, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the 
Imperial Institute. The Association has its headquarters in Paris and is governed by 
an International Board, from which an Executive Committee of from five to seven 
administrators is selected. 
Several of the European countries have formed sections for facilitating the work 
of the Association locally and a British Section has now been constituted in London. 
The work of the Association consists in promoting investigations into questions of 
special importance to tropical agriculture, in publishing the results of these enquiries, 
and in organising International Congresses for the discussion of the problems of 
Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development. 
In May, 1910, the Second International Congress of Tropical Agriculture and 
Colonial Development, organised by the Association, was held at Brussels. At this 
Congress reports on various enquiries initiated by the Association were read and 
discussed and a large number of important papers on various subjects connected with 
tropical agriculture and colonial development were contributed. These reports and 
papers are now in course of publication. A short account of the proceedings of the 
Congress, with abstracts of the reports and papers read by British members, is published 
in the “Bulletin of the Imperial Institute,” vol. viii, 1910, No. 2, from which it will be 
seen that much useful work was accomplished and that the international enquiries 
conducted by the Association are already yielding results which are likely to be of the 
greatest importance to those interested in tropical agriculture and colonial development 
in the British Empire. 
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