8 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



tural Adviser to the Government of India for special agri- 

 cultural experiments were as follows : — 



Rs. 



Experimental cotton cultivation bv the Imperial 



Cotton Specialist . . . , . . . •* 1,250 



Grant-in-aid to the Dairy Education Association, 

 Indian Branch, for the Quarterly Journal of 

 Dairying ........ 510 



Fittings and apparatus for the field laboratory of 



the Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist . . 1,999 



Storage experiments by the Imperial Entomologist . 434 



Purchase of silk yarn 454 



Grant to the Fibre Expert, for purchase of flax 



seed 1,153 



Pay of a Veterinary Assistant in connection with 

 cattle breeding, a Fieldman for mosquito experi- 

 ments, and an Assistant for pebrine work . . 1,903 



The gross receipts during the year from the sale of farm 

 produce, milk, publications of the Department and other 

 articles amounted to Rs. 19,843 as against Rs. 17,878 in the 

 previous year. 



VI. Visitors. 



Fifty- four gentlemen visited the Institute during the 

 year under report. Among them were the following : — 



The Hon'ble Mr. H. Le Mesurier, Member of the 

 Executive Council, Bihar and Orissa; Sir Frank Sly, 

 President of the Champaran Agrarian Committee; the 

 Hon'ble Mr. H. J. Maynard, Financial •Commissioner, 

 Punjab; Dr. J. W. Gregory, Professor of Geology at the 

 University of Glasgow and Member of the Calcutta 

 University Commission; Colonel G. J. H. Bell, Inspector- 

 General of Civil Hospitals, Bihar and Orissa; Lieutenant- 

 Colonel Sir James Roberts, I.M.S., Mr. G. E. Fawcus, 

 Director of Public Instruction, Bihar and Orissa; Professor 

 H. Stanley Jevons, Allahabad University; the Reverend 

 Father E. Blatter, Professor of Botany, St. Xavier's College, 

 Bombay; and Mr. Frank B. Hill, a planter in British East 

 Africa. Among the other visitors were officers of the 

 various Provincial Departments of Agriculture, and 



