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from the Ordnance Survey, to his staff, and left the department 
sufficiently strong and efficient to meet the great and growing 
demands for Crown lands and surveys, and for increasing the 
revenue from sales of Crown lands from <£6000 to £37,000, which 
went on increasing to £70,000 per annum, at the same time, 
relatively to the amount of work done, reducing the operative 
expenses by many thousands of pounds per annum. The Governor 
of Ceylon, Sir Henry Ward, himself a very able and indefatigable 
man, wrote in his message to the Legislative Council : “ Captain 
Gosset was a man of great ability and untiring industry, and he 
was eminently practical.” 
Severe labour in a tropical climate compelled Captain Gosset, 
in 1858, to seek change of climate and rest in England, and his 
inability to resume his post in Ceylon led him to accept an ap- 
pointment in British Columbia, where he filled the offices of Trea- 
surer, Commissary, Postmaster-General, Master of the Mint, and 
Director of the Gold Assay Department, giving great satisfaction 
in all departments to the Home Authorities. 
On promotion, Colonel Gosset returned to the duties of his corps, 
and was Commanding Royal Engineers in Ireland, Plymouth, and 
Woolwich, until he attained the rank of Major-General, and retired 
from the army at the end of 1873. At this time Major-General 
Gosset was too young for a totally inactive life being congenial to 
him, so he obtained an appointment as Inspector of Art Schools, 
under Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum, 
and continued to fill this post until the age clause compelled him 
to retire at the end of 1894. As inspector, Major-General Gosset 
did more than satisfy the Science and Art Department. 
Recapitulation of Major-General Gosset’s official services during 
a period of fifty-four years, 1840 to 1894 : rising in military rank 
from Lieutenant to Major-General; measuring the heavens and 
the earth on the great national work of the Ordnance Survey ; 
filling the position of Surveyor-General in the Island of Ceylon ; 
Treasurer, Commissary, Postmaster-General, Master of the Mint, 
and Director of the Gold Assay Department in British Columbia ; 
Commanding Royal Engineers at the chief military stations in 
Great Britain ; and Inspector of Art Schools under Science and 
Art Department, South Kensington Museum. 
