12 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL AGRICULTURAL 



CHEMIST. 



(J. Sen, M.A., F.C.S.) 



I. Administration and Tours. 



Charge. The section was in charge of Mr. (now Major) 

 J. W. Leather, V.D., F.I.C., up to the 15th September 1915 

 when he proceeded on long leave preparatory to retirement. 

 He has since joined the 3rd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. 

 The First Assistant was in charge of the current duties 

 from 16th September to 6th November 1915 when I took 

 over charge of the section as Ofhciating Imperial Agricul 

 tural Chemist. 



Establishment. Mr. P. N. Mehta, B.A., was appointed 

 an assistant on 10th July 1915. 



Mr. B. M. Amin, the Third Assistant, has been deputed 

 to work under the Indigo Research Chemist with effect 

 from the 15th June 1916. 



Babu Upendra Nath Sen Gupta, B.A., was appointed a 

 probationary assistant from the 15th June 1916. 



Tours. Major Leather visited Simla in July to confer 

 with the Commissioner of Northern India Salt Revenue 

 about the experiments on refining saltpetre and also went to 

 Cawnpore in September to arrange about draingauge work. 



I went to Sabour in December to see to the harvesting of 

 my experimental plot of paddy there. 



II. Education. 



Babu Upendra Nath Sen Gupta joined this section as a 

 private student but has afterwards taken up appointment 

 as an assistant. 



III. Meteorology and Draingauges. 



In addition to the usual records for the Meteorological 

 Department, records of atmospheric pressure by means of a 



