There is in India a Director of Economic Enquiries-*-a botanist by 
profession—who works under the Revenue Department of the Indian 
Government. Ee has been placed in direct communication with the 
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Authorities of the Imperial Institute , and it is his duty (so far as the 
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Imperial Institute is concerned) to forward to the Curator of the Indian 
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Section from time to time specimens of the products, natural or manu¬ 
factured, of India. These are duly named and classified before leaving 
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India, references to their description in the Indian Dictionary of Economic 
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j Products are given, and if there is anything new or specially worthy of 
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enquiry about them, it is made the subject of correspondence with the 
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Curator or other of the Imperial Institute authorities. The Curator on 
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receipt of the specimens has a sample exhibited in the show cases in the 
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Indian gallery, and stores the bulk of the specimen so that it can at any 
time be examined and handled by commercial men and other persons 
interested. Certain of the specimens sent from India are , either at the 
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instance of the Indian Government themselves or otherwise, made the subject 
of chemical investigation, and sometimes of industrial and commercial 
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enquiry, by the Scientific and Technical Department of the Imperial 
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Institute under Professor Dunstan, F.P.S., and the results of these 
enquiries, after being recorded at the Institute, are reported back to India, 
whose Economic Director makes them available to the public and brings 
them to the knowledge of the local Governments in their Agricultural 
Departments , of the Chambers of Commerce, and of Agricultural Societies, 
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by publishing them in the Agricultural Ledger which comes out at frequent 
intervals. 
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A summary of the work done for India by the Scientific and 
Technical Departments is also appended . to the annual report of the 
Indian Committee of the Imperial Institute, which is sent by the Secretary 
of State to the Government of India and is laid before Parliament. 
