SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT. 
BRUSSELS. MAY 20-23, 1910. 
BRITISH SECTION, Imperial Institute, London, S.W. 
An International Congress of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development will be held in Brussels from 
May 20th to 23rd next. The organisation and scope of the Congress are described in the accompanying circular, 
issued by the International Association of Colonial Agriculture in Paris. 
A British Committee is being formed to arrange for the contribution of papers by those interested in Tropical 
Agriculture and Colonial Development in the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India, and the following officials 
have already expressed their willingness to serve on the British Committee:—■ 
Professor W. R. Dunstan, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Imperial Institute, Chairman. 
Mr. F. Beadon-Bryant, Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. 
Mr. H. Brown, Technical Superintendent, Scientific and Technical Department, Imperial Institute. 
Professor P. Cannody, F.I.C., Director of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad. 
Mr. J. B. Carruthers, Assistant Director of Agriculture, Trinidad. 
Mr. M. T. Dawe, Officer-in-Charge, Botanical, Forestry and Scientific Department, Uganda. 
Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, Inspector of Agriculture for British West Africa. 
Dr. E. Colliding, F.I.C., Principal Assistant, Scientific and Technical Department, Imperial Institute. 
Professor J. B. Harrison, C.M.G., M.A., F.I.C., Director of the Science and Agriculture Department, 
British Guiana. 
Mr. M. Kelway-Bamber, F.I.C., Government Chemist, Ceylon. 
Mr. R. N. Lyne, Director of Agriculture, Zanzibar. 
Lieut -Colonel D. Prain, I.M.S., C.I.E., M.A., M.B., L.L.D., F.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew. 
Mr. J. S. J. McCall, Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland. 
Air. A. C. Macdonald, Director of Agriculture, East Africa Protectorate. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales. 
Mr. F. B. Smith, Director of Agriculture, Transvaal. 
Mr. S. Stockman, Chief Veterinary Officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the United Kingdom. 
The Hon. F. Watts, C.M.G., D.Sc , F.I.C., Imperial Commissioner for Agriculture in the West Indies. 
Dr. J. C. Willis, M.A., Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. 
Dr. T. A. Henry, Superintendent of Laboratories, Scientific and Technical Department, Imperial 
Institute, Acting Secretary. 
In view of the unique opportunities which the Congress will provide for agricultural and forestry officers and 
others interested in agriculture and development work in the Colonies and India to consider and discuss problems 
connected with the subjects of their work, it is important that a large attendance of British representatives should 
be secured. 
As evidence of the interest taken in the work of the Congress throughout the Empire it may be mentioned 
that the following papers have been promised already to the British Committee:— 
Mr. W. L. Balls, Botanist to the Khedivial Agricultural Society, Egypt—“The Application of Mendel’s 
Law to Cotton Breeding" and “Some Causes Affecting the Egyptian Cotton Crop.” 
Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, Inspector of Agriculture for British West Africa—“The Cottons in Indigenous 
Cultivation in British West Africa." 
Mr. A. E. Humphries—“Wheat Production in Relation to the Requirements of the United Kingdom." 
Mr. F. B* Guthrie, F.C.S , Chemist in the Department of Agriculture, New South Wales'—“Work Done 
in New South Wales in connection with the Improvement and Testing of Wheats.” 
Mr. J. B. Pole Evans, Plant Pathologist, Department of Agriculture, Transvaal—“South African Cereal 
Rusts; with Observations on the Problem of Breeding Rust-resistant Wheats." 
Mr. J. Burtt-Davy, Government Botanist, Department of Agriculture, Transvaal —“ Problems connected 
with Maize-growing in South Africa." 
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