Report of the Agricultural Research 

 Institute and College, Pusa, 



(Including the Report of the linperial Cotton Specialist) 



1914-15, 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 



(Bernard Coventry, CLE.) 



I. Charge and Staff. 



Charge. I held charge of the office of Agricultural 

 Adviser to the Government of India and Director, Agricul- 

 tural Research Institute, Pusa, and Mr. Wynne Sayer, 

 B.A., of the office of Assistant to the Agricultural Adviser 

 to the Government of India throughout the year. 



Mr. A. C. Dobbs, B.A., who was the permanent Assist- 

 ant to the Agricultural Adviser was transferred to Ranchi 

 as Deputy Director of Agriculture under the Government 

 of Bihar and Orissa on the 26th April 1915 and Mr. Sayer 

 has been appointed to the post. 



Staff. The Chemical Section was in charge of Mr. 

 J. W. Leather, V.D., F.I.C., during the year. 



Mr. Jatindra Nath Sen, M.A., Supernumerary Agricul- 

 tural Chemist, has been posted at the Agricultural College 

 at Sabour since September 1914 for research work. 



Mr. A. Howard, CLE., M.A., held the office of the 

 Imperial Economic Botanist during the whole year. 

 Gabrielle L. C Howard, M.A., has been appointed as 

 Second Imperial Economic Botanist, from 10th February 

 1915. As in previous years Mr. and Mrs. Howard pro- 

 ceeded to Quetta in May 1915 and will stay there for five 

 months for work in connection with the development of the 

 fruit industry in Baluchistan. 



