16 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURAL 



CHEMIST 



(J. Walter Leather, V.D., Ph.D., F.I.C.) 



I. — Administration and Tours. 



Charge. — -This section was in the charge of myself 

 during the whole year. 



Establishment. — Mr. H. E. Annett, Supernumerary 

 Agricultural Chemist, continued to officiate as Agricultural 

 Chemist, Punjab, until November when he proceeded on 

 one year and nineteen days' privilege leave and study leave, 

 and has therefore been absent during the whole year. 



Mr. Bhailal Motibhai Amin, third assistant, continued 

 on deputation at the Sirseah Indigo Research Station 

 until April 30th, when this station was closed and he re- 

 joined his appointment in this section. 



Mr. A. V. Iyer, fourth assistant, was appointed Assist- 

 ant Agricultural Chemist, Bihar and Orissa, on 3rd Nov- 

 ember 1912. Mr. Lele was appointed in his place. 



Babu Narendra Nath Mitra, M.Sc, an assistant, was 

 appointed demonstrator in Chemistry at the Thomason 

 Engineering College, Roorkee, on 2nd January 1913. 



Babu Nirmal Chandra Bose, M.Sc, who was appointed 

 in a temporary vacancy for three months, was appointed 

 an assistant in the Bacteriological Section. 



The vacancies which occurred during the year have 

 been filled up by the appointments of Babus Phani Bhusan 

 Sanyal, M.Sc, and Har Dyal Singh, B.Sc, as junior 

 assistants. 



It is naturally eminently satisfactory to find that there 

 is such a constant demand for the services of assistants 

 from this section, and this fact at the same time markedly 

 assists recruitment, but on the other hand it means that of 

 the establishment of eight assistants several are always 

 merely under training and of no use for the general work 



