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Miscellaneous. 



are complete arrangements for the manu- 

 facture of indigo and the curing of 

 tobacco. Poultry breeding is being 

 carried on ; there is a large and well- 

 laid-out orchard and botanical garden. 

 Every facility for the practical teach- 

 ing of agriculture and agricultural sub- 

 jects has been provided. The students' 

 laboratories are extensive, well lighted 

 and equipped ; there is a library for 

 the use of students. The students' 

 hostel is complete, and there is ample 

 accommodation for 70 students. Waini, 

 on the Bengal and North-Western Rail- 

 way, is the nearest railway station. 

 It is six miles from the college by a 

 good road. There is a telegraph and 

 post office within the estate. 



III. Constitution and Studies. 



1. Control.— The College is under the 

 general supervision of the Inspector- 

 General of Agriculture in India, and is 

 under the direct control of the Director 

 of the Research Institute and Principal 

 of the College. 



2. Staff.— The superior staff of the 

 College consists of : - 



1, The Principal. 



2, The Imperial Agricultural Chem- 



ist. 



3, The Imperial Mycologist. 



k. The Imperial Entomologist. 



5. The Imperial Economic Botanist. 



6. The Imperial A griculturist. 



7. The Imperial Agricultural Bac- 



teriologist. 



8. The Second Imperial Entomolo- 



gist. 



3. COURSE.— The ordinary College 

 course extends over two years, and the 

 students will be trained in one or other 

 of the following sections of agricultural 

 science, no students being trained in 

 more than one section at a time : — 



1. Agricultural Chemistry. 



2. Economic Botany. 



S. Economic Entomology * 



k. Mycology. 



5. Agricultural Bacteriology. t 



6, Agriculture. 



4. Syllabus.— In the absence of ex- 



Eerience of the class of students likely to 

 e received, it is impossible to lay down 

 a permanent syllabus of the training 

 in each subject. The syllabus that fol- 

 lows is tentative and is subject to the 

 condition that time will not be wasted 



"•The Entomological course is for one year 

 only. 



f As the appointment of Imperial Agricul- 

 tural Bacteriologist is now vacant, instruction 

 cannot be provided at present in Agricultural 

 Bacteriology, 



in taking students over ground that is 

 already familiar to them. 



I. AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. 



(Two years' course.) 



(i) A course of lectures and laboratory 

 practice of the same type as laid down 

 in the Standard Curriculum for Provin- 

 cial Colleges. 



(ii) A course or courses of lectures in 

 advanced chemistry which shall follow 

 such lines as have an important bearing 

 on agricultural science. Each student 

 will then take up a particular line of 

 investigation suggested tc him by the 

 lecturer. At the end of the course each 

 student will write an essay embodying 

 the whole of his work, and the results 

 positive or negative he can deduce theie- 

 i'rom. 



II. BOTANY, 



{Two years' course.) 

 (First year.) 



(i) Physiology of Plants. — The course 

 will be mainly practical, and will be 

 based on Darwin and Acton's Physiology 

 of Plants (Cambridge University Press). 



The work will illustrate the effect of 

 various conditions on plant development, 

 and will include :— 



(a) Respiration, 

 (6) Assimilation, 

 (c) Nutrition, 

 (ei) Transpiration. 

 (e) Growth. 

 (/) Movements. 



(ii) The Improvement of Plants-— The 

 lectures will deal firstly with the princi- 

 ples underlying the modern develop- 

 ment of plant-breeding, such as Mendel's 

 Law and Mutation, and secondly with 

 the particular methods adapted to 

 Indian conditions, and this part of the 

 course will be supplemented by field 

 work. 



The subjects treated will be :— 



(a) Evolution, Variation and Mutation. 



(b) Selection. 



(c) Hybridization. 



(iii) The Principles of Indian Fruit 

 Growing.— The course will include— 



(a) The general management of 

 a modern fruit garden. 



(6) Special processes, such as Propaga- 

 tion, Pruning and Root-pruning, Wea- 

 thering. 



(c) Disposal of the produce. 



In the case of students who show 

 special aptitude for work in Economic 

 Botany, and who are likely to become 

 qualified to undertake original work, the 

 course will be extended to two years. 



