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Rh and embellishment of the college-chapel, and bequeathed 500 volumes to the college-library; and his widow added the gift of communion-plate for the sacramental service of the college and a tablet to the memory of the deceased founder with an inscription written by himself. The Incorporated Society in first sending out books for the library were aided by a gift from the University of Oxford of all the works printed at the Clarendon press; and the same gift was increased by donations of some thousand books, printed and manuscript, from Principal Mill and other individuals in India as well as England. In June, 1826, the District Committee of the Incorporated Society formed in Bombay by Bishop Heber, at the special instance and persuasion of archdeacon Barnes, agreed to devote their whole first year’s receipt to the support of Bishop’s college. The same appropriation was likewise voted by the Diocesan Committee of Calcutta formed at the end of the same year, and also by the Madras District Committee in 1826. Lord, Governor-General of India, at the special request of Bishop Heber in 1826, assigned a further space of forty-eight beeghas on the western side of the road and on the bank of the Hooghly, to be separated from the botanical garden for the further demesnes and out-offices of the college. The University of Cambridge, by a vote of the senate in 1826, agreed that copies of all works printed at their presses should be presented to the library of Bishop’s college, and the same gift was increased by several contributions made at the instance chiefly of the Revd. W. Mandell, fellow of Queen’s college, among the residents of the university. In 1830, Bishop Turner erected at his own expense a tablet to the memory of Bishop Heber, similar to the opposite monument of Bishop Middleton. James Young, Esq., in 1832, presented an organ to the college-chapel. In the foundation of scholarships, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge took the lead by funding a sum of £6,000 in India Government stock, for the support of six scholars to be denominated Bishop Middleton’s scholars. The same Society also, after hearing of the death of Bishop Middleton’s successor, funded £2,000 in the same stock for two foreign ecclesiastical scholarships to bear the name of Heber’s foreign theological scholarships, to be filled as occasion offers from the ancient episcopal churches of Asia not acknowledging the supremacy of the see of Rome. The Church