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articles amounted to Rs 17,878 as against Rs. 15,340 in 

 the previous year. 



VI. Conferences. 



In accordance with the proposal of the Government of 

 India to adopt the policy of Sectional Meetings in years in 

 which a full Meeting of the Board of Agriculture is not 

 held a conference of Mycologists and Entomologists was 

 held at Pusa on the 5th February, 1917, and following 

 days. The session was a great success and was attended 

 by representatives of nearly all provinces and the officers 

 of the Indian Tea Association and Mysore State. 



VII. Visitors. 



No fewer than 136 persons visited the Institute during 

 the year under report. Amongst the visitors were : — 



His Honour Sir Edward Gait, Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Bihar and Orissa; the Hon'ble Sir Claude Hill, Member-in- 

 charge of the Department of Revenue and Agriculture, 

 Government of India; Sir Thomas Holland, Sir R. N. 

 Mukherji, the Hon'ble Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and 

 other members of the Indian Industrial Commission, Sir 

 George Sutherland, of Messrs. Begg Dunlop & Co., the 

 Hon'ble Mr. W. Maude, Member of the Executive Council, 

 Bihar and Orissa; General Gamble, Inspector- General of 

 Volunteers ; the Hon'ble Mr. L. F. Morshead, Commissioner, 

 Tirhoot Division, Mr. J. F. Connolly, Commissioner, 

 Northern India Salt Department; Mr. Puran Singh, Chemi- 

 cal Adviser, Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra 

 Dun; and Thakur Jagannath Baksh Singh, Estate Rahwan, 

 District Rai Bareli (United Provinces). 



A party of 25 members of the Bihar Planters' Associa- 

 tion paid a two days' visit in February, 1917. Mr. William 

 Bembower, of the Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, with 

 16 students of his college, visited the Institute in March. 



