INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLONIAL AGRICULTURE. 
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT. 
BRUSSELS. MAY 20-23, 1910. 
Paris, December 9th , 1909, 
The International Association of Colonial Agriculture, which was founded after the first 
International Congress of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development held in Paris in 1905, 
proposes to hold a second International Congress at Brussels from the 20th to the 23rd May, 1910. 
The organisation of this second Congress has been undertaken by the Belgian Society for 
the study of Tropical Agriculture and by an influential Belgian Committee, The International 
Exhibition at Brussels will be open at the date of the Congress and is likely to be of great interest 
to those attending the Congress. The date of the Congress has been selected with a view to 
facilitating the attendance of members who desire also to be present at the International Botanical 
Congress, which meets at Brussels from the 14th to the 22nd May. 
The International Association of Colonial Agriculture has for its principal object the 
scientific and practical study of all questions connected with agriculture and colonial development, 
and the programme of the Congress is arranged with a view to including work in these and 
cognate subjects. 
The matters which will more particularly receive attention are as follows:— 
Cultivated tropical products. 
Forest products. 
Wild plants of economic interest. 
Origin, composition and utilisation 
of natural materials. 
The manuring of crops. 
Diseases of economic plants. 
Technology and utilisation of raw 
materials. 
Applied zoology and entomology. 
Tropical hygiene. 
Colonial economics. 
Statistics relating to cultivation and produc¬ 
tion in the colonies. 
Rural engineering and building construction . 
Colonial and ti'opical agriculture. 
Compilation of data relating to tropical agri¬ 
culture , etc. 
