194 On the Establishment of an Agricultural Institution 
owing to our having neglected to make any estimate of the effect of radiation. On 
this latter account it might perhaps be preferable to use this value of the index, 
where the actual formula is considered to be too complicated : in this case it will be 
necessary to alter the value of — . Calculating as before the logarithm will be found 
to be 0,7520, 0,7486, 0,7504, 0,7578, 0,7597, 0,7617, 0,7503, 0,7451, 0,7239, 
mean 0.7600, or, rejecting the last 0. 7532. 
This answers to the natural number 5|. The formula (D) will he transferring F 
to the other side of the equation 
f-r s « Dl -” 4B W 
* 3 L. 30 
With a table then of the 1-244 powers of the first 30 numbers, we may from this 
formula at once calculate the tension of the vapour in the air, having from observation 
the depression of the moist thermometer. 
I am not yet prepared to say which formula will agree best with observation. 
II . — Proposal for the Establishment of an Agricultural Institution for 
the general Improvement of the Country. 
In what length of time natives and Europeans are likely to become more cordial 
than they are at present, is a question, that can only be determined by those who 
have the power of accelerating, or retarding that event. 
The more admired writers on the subject of Indian improvement, have strongly 
advocated every means of conciliation : but so long as a system prevails that draws 
a line of demarcation between the two classes of subjects, no great approximation 
can ever arise. 
In a condition not Unlike that of the “ adscript! glebae” of Europe some centu- 
ries back, or that of the people of Russia in the present day, the great mass of the 
inhabitants of Hindustan pass from one set of masters to another, as often as the 
delinquency of the zemindar compels the State to transfer the superintendaace of a 
district to other hands. 
The dependence of the small farmer on the precarious justice of the zemindar, it 
is imagined, might in some degree be removed, by a gradual and cautious mixture 
of Europeans, and a dispersion of stock farms in the country, under wholesome 
regulations. The European might be bound to observe all his engagements, and 
would be more under the control of the State than the native. Any serious displea- 
sure at his conduct would most likely ruin all his future prospects ; whereas the 
native has often the greatest advantage he can reap, derived from the’ most notori- 
ous oppression. 
It is not contemplated, that any attempt to administer the agricultural concerns 
of the country would ever he executed on any scale of importance to excite alarm 
in the native mind ; hut, that in those situations where stock farms mav become 
established, the management of them should he chiefly or, perhaps, entirely in the 
hands of Europeans in the first instance. 1 
It would he optional perltaps with Government to demand documentary evidence 
of just views and proper administration of such establishments, which might be rea- 
sonably expected perhaps on the grounds of statistical as well as of other considera- 
tions . 
A Board of Agriculture might he formed for the purpose of informing Govern- 
ment ot the state of the agriculture of the country, at which the most intelligent 
and respectable natives might deliberate, with or without European associates un- 
der the protection of the State. The board might besides agriculture embrace 'such 
other statistical objects as should leave the native department to depend solely upon 
their own exertions ; while the institution might he in the first instance considered 
as little more than the nucleus of a more important organ, which should patronise 
and support every species of improvement, and report annually the progress made 
m each branch of its labours, for the information of Government 
An institution of this kind would Li rid to bring the minds of the uDDer classes of 
ripened. 10 * n eXerC ' Se ’ by which ia time their judgments would become formed and 
Itwokd have the beneficial consequence of accustoming them to formal delibera- 
tmn, and would by degrees prepare their minds for the consideration of more refined 
