them.[1] Scientific apparatus of various kinds was ordered from England. Professor Peacock, of Trinity college, Cambridge, at the request of the committee, selected and sent out the mathematical class books required at the different institutions. Arrangements were made with the school-book society for the publication of a book of selections from the English poets, from Chaucer downwards, and the expediency of publishing a corresponding volume in prose is now under consideration.
When these operations commenced there were fourteen seminaries under the control of the Committee: there are now forty. At the first-mentioned period there were about 3,398 pupils, of whom 1,818 were learning English, 218 Arabic, and 473 Sanskrit. There are now upwards of 6,000. The number of Sanskrit and Arabic students is smaller than before. A small number study Persian, or learn the vernacular language only; all the rest receive an English education. The seminary which was last established completely exhausted the funds at the disposal of the
- ↑ As most young men take out a stock of books with them to India, while few bring any back, the common English standard works have accumulated there to a great extent. The public libraries which have been established by the committee in the principal towns form a nucleus round which these and many other books collect.
