292 Obituary Notice. 



the shawl-wool buyers and other traders would be inducQd to fre- 

 quent Sreenuggur, and thus induce the Tibet traders to bring their 

 wool to the British territory, instead of looking for a market in 

 Cashmeer, by the lengthy and circuitous route of Leh. &c. For the 

 development of the trade of Tibet one great road is being opened up 

 through Simla, Eamporc, &c., but nature has already, as it were, 

 marked out the Gurhwal route as one of the great arteries by which 

 the trade of the Trans-Himalayan countries should flow into British 

 India, and it only requires to be a little more opened up to cause it 

 to be more generally frequented. By the Bhotias our teas are highly 

 appreciated, and for them they are prej^ared to barter their produce. 

 As a mart, therefore, in the great high road for them and other 

 merchants to frequent, a more appropriate place could not be met 

 with than Sreenuggur, distant six miles from the factory of Paoree. 

 It, however, can never come into general use untdthe road is made." 



Mr J. H. Batten, of the Bengal Civil Service, formerly 

 Commissioner of Kumaon, thus epitomises Jameson's work 

 in India : — " William Jameson came to India with all the 

 Ijrcstige derived from the reputation in science of his cele- 

 brated uncle, and right nobly has he sustained and 

 extended, from Edinburgh and Europe to the Himalaya 

 and Asia, the honours of his family. 



" Having assumed full management everywhere as super- 

 intendent, Jameson paid his first visit to Kumaon in 

 April 1843 ; and made his first ofiicial report on the tea 

 nurseries of that province in February 1844. From that 

 date until the final abandonment of the Government ex- 

 ploitation, and the successful establishment of private 

 enterprise, the progress of the whole cultivation of the 

 tea plant, and of the production and disposal of the manu- 

 factured tea, formed the subject of the most complete and 

 exhaustive reports, furnished annually by the superin- 

 tendent, and published at first in the Transactions of the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, and, after 

 the introduction of the system of annual administration 

 reports by the several governments of British India, in the 

 official records of the North- Western Provinces." 



" The year 1847 was an important year for the tea ex- 

 periment in the Himalaya. Dr Jameson submitted a full 

 report on the subject,* in which he reviewed the progress of 



* This report, illustrated with numerous drawings, was printed and exten- 

 sively circulated by Government, and subsequently published by authority 

 (No. xxiii. ) for general information. 



