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4 is now so large that Government is obliged to protect its own interests by a guarantee binding the Student not to quit its service within a certain time.

The Staff of the College consists of a Principal and two Assistants (all Engineer Officers), Professors of Experimental Science and of Drawing, Head and Second Masters for the Soldiers, and six Native Masters for the Third Department, besides the Office and Press Establishments, & c.

A view of the College is given in the Frontispiece. The Architect was Capt. Price, now Chief Engineer at Hyderabad. Besides the various Class and Lecture Rooms, the building contains a Library of some 7000 volumes on subjects of general as well as scientific and professional interest, a Drawing Hall, Museums of Geology and of Natural Produce, and a Model Room. To the College are also attached a Press, where Printing, Binding, and Lithography are executed — a Wood Engraving Departmentm-a Depôt for Surveying and Mathematical Instrurnents— and a Meteorological Observatory.

The Calcutta Civil Engineering College was founded in 1856. Officers and Soldiers do not study here, and there is no Vernacular Department, the majority of the Students being Bengalees, whose instruction is conducted in English. The Course of Study is much the same as that of the First Department of the Thomason College. The general results, however, have not been so good, certainly not from any fault of the instructors, but because the material is inferior, the Bengalee being more fitted for sedentary pursuits than for the active out-door life of a practical Engineer.

The Madras Civil Engineering College was formed in 1859, under Captain Winscom, R. E., as Principal, with twenty Military and twenty-six Civil Students.

The nucleus for its formation was the Government Survey School, which was established in 1834, for the purpose of training men as Surveyors under the Revenue Department.

In order to supply the wants of the Department Public Works,