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went to Poona, Bangalore, Madras, Calcutta, Patna, Benares, 

 Allahabad, Cawnpore, Roorkee, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi ; visited 

 Sir M. Young at his camp near the Indus, at Sidpur, back to 

 Delhi, then to Baroda, and finally back to Bombay. The site 

 I have fixed on is Bangalore. The climate is excellent, neither 

 too cold nor too warm. It is 4500 feet up, and there is a sort 

 of fresh feeling like that on the top of a hill. There is a geological 

 station there, an agricultural station, a college, such as exist in 

 India. More about them hereafter. They offer a splendid site, 

 300 acres in extent, in the best part of the town, which is very 

 open. They have 1200 a year to play with, a sum which has 

 fallen to the Mysore State as the result of a disputed legacy, and 

 which they wish to spend for the good of the state. The revenues 

 of Mysore show a huge surplus which can't be annexed by the 

 Maharaja, for he has a private allowance of 150,000 ; also the 

 Cauvery Falls, 40 miles from Bangalore, are being connected 

 with the Kolar goldfields, 45 miles in the other direction, and the 

 leads pass within 7 miles of Bangalore. They arc going to begin 

 with 4000 H.P., but measurements show that for 8 months of the 

 year 100,000 could be got. Lastly, there are endless deposits 

 of iron ore, manganese, magnesia, etc., near, all of which might 

 be exploited. So I have recommended Bangalore. . . . The 

 Committee have asked me to nominate the first members of staff 

 and I have suggested names. 



They will have to get out a lot of young fellows of a technical 

 kind from home, as many as they can afford. . . . 



The students will be selected by the heads of Colleges, at the 

 rate of about 15 a year. They must be men who show intelli- 

 gence and grit. More will be sent than can be permanently 

 kept ; they will all get three months' trial. These fellows will 

 almost all require 1 to 1 J- years chemical and physical work before 

 they are much good. There is hardly any laboratory work done 

 in India. . . . 



Next these members of staff must each take up some question 



