cxliv Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, 



With the nature and essence of Ci research" I propose to 

 offer a few observations later on, but it is not without interest 

 to note at this point the connections in which the word occurs 

 in the various budget estimates. The Government of India 

 support a Forest Research Institute and College at Dehra Dun, 

 and devote about 4 lakhs a year to it ; they contribute 5 lakhs 

 a year to the Indian Research Fund, about 5 J lakhs to the 

 Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa, and a lakh to the Cen- 

 tral Research Institute at Kasauli. 



Some of the local Governments have entertained, or pro- 

 pose to entertain, what they call in the budget, Forest Research 

 Officers. The Agricultural College in the Madras Presidency 

 has, for part of its title, that of Research Institute. The Gov- 

 ernment of Bengal give research scholarships. The Punjab 

 Government enter a small portion of their contribution to Gov- 

 ernment Colleges as research grant. In Burma a small sum is 

 devoted to what are called Leprosy researches. 



The budgets, however, provide for many other forms of 

 vscientific activity in connection with which the word research 

 does not happen to have been used, such as : — further experi- 

 mental work in connection with agriculture, bacteriological 

 work as affecting man and animals, other investigations of a 



medical nature, and work relating to fisheries and other in 

 dustries. 



Further, various Governments support Museums in some of 

 which, at any rate, scientific work is carried on, and our Institute 

 here at Bangalore receives an annual grant of Rs. 87,500 from 

 the Government of India who have promised, should any pri- 

 vate individual be willing to subscribe, to provide a like 

 amount so long as their total grant does not exceed Rs. 1,50,000. 



Lastly, there are the various Imperial Surveys; in some of 

 these the expenditure must, of course, be mainly debited to ad- 

 ministrative work, but in the majoritv of them the funds do 

 something towards the progress of science. 



In all these ways and without taking the Surveys into 

 account the annual expenditure from public funds on scientific 

 work in British India is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 

 Rs. 70—80 lakhs, that is to say, £500,000 ; and to this must, of 

 course be added large capital sums invested in buildings. I 

 have the exact figures under each head but the difficulty comes 

 when one endeavours to pick out the expenditure resulting in 

 additions to scientific knowledge, and I have given the Govern- 

 ment the benefit of the doubt in the majority of the doubtful 

 cases. J J 



This expenditure is supplemented to some extent by the 

 more progressive of the Native States, including,' I need 

 hardly say, the State in which we have the pleasure to be at 

 present. r 



Lastly, private sources have contributed but to a la-raenta- 



