The special Reports by the Professors are so complete, and afford such ample information on every part of the studies in the College classes, as to render much detail in this introductory portion unnecessary.

It may be proper, however, to direct attention to the Table of General Results at Page 9. This Table gives the order in which the Students came out at the Examination, on the whole; and I will merely in this place give some account of two or three most meritorious among them. Vishwanath Nárayan, in the second normal class, it will be seen, obtained 515 marks out of 634 (the total of all the subjects); the second man in his class getting but 378. Marks have been awarded in seven subjects, in six of which Vishwanath Nárayan is first, and in the remaining one third. It must be added that he has never dropped a year, as under the old Regulations he might have done, nor had in any way an opportunity of repeating any part of the course. Among the West Scholars Báláji Pandúrang obtains 517 marks out of 674; the second man in his class getting but 376. Bàlàjì is also first in six subjects out of eight, a first in the seventh, and in the remaining one a high third. The junior class is remarkable for the number of nearly equal men at the head of it: Bhairaonáth Mangesh, the first, has 440 marks out of 650, while the fourth in the list has as many as 405, and as low as the fourteenth we still find as many as 314. Bhairaonáth is first in History and in Logic; Balkrishna Sadashiva first with Dr. Giraud, and one of two firsts in the Vernaculars; Nánábhái Haridás first in Political Economy and in the Vernacular; Mukúndrao Bhàsker first in Literature; and Khándás Tápídás first in Mathematics; but the second, third, and fourth in this class are also all very good men.

In two of the Examinations we were fortunate enough to obtain assistance ab externo. The paper for the senior classes in Political Economy was set by the Rev. A. G. Fraser; and the subjects for English Essays given by R. X. Murphy, Esq. Comparing their judgment of the merits of the Students (as formed from their subsequent examination of the papers) with

our own, the following results appear: Mr. Fraser's first and last men are the first and last but one in my vivâ voce Examination in the same subject. (I need hardly, I presume, say that Mr. Fraser was totally unacquainted with the results of the viva voce Examination, and also with the different reputations attached to the names of the Students.) With Mr. Murphy the following curious result occurred: One of that gentleman's themes was given to two classes at once-the 3rd year's and 2nd year's. The papers were collected, put promiscuously into a cover, and sent to Mr. Murphy, without any intimation of their belonging to more than one class. Mr. Murphy, examining them, and awarding the marks on the supposition that he had to deal with a single class, determined very carefully the most meritorious for the prize, placing seven as seconds, and the remainder as thirds, fourths, and so on. On finding what had occurred, we were, of course, curious to know whether any of the junior men had beaten any of the seniors in this unanticipated comparison, but found that Mr. Murphy's first man and six out of his seven seconds comprised exactly the senior class, an interesting confirmation, as far as it goes, of the judgments which awarded the Scholarships in April last. These were the only two cases of Examination from without the College.

The Report will, I fear be considered rather voluminous, but I know of nothing which is really superfluous in it. The specimens of the answering and the Tables make up the bulk of it; and with so much matter to report upon among the subjects of study, and so much of novelty in the teaching, it was not possible to give any tolerably complete idea of the present state of the Institution in smaller compass. The notice of my own classes is in fact limited to the term which has just expired; and several papers which it was intended originally to embody in the Report have been omitted altogether. Among these may be mentioned the account of the Scholarship Examination in April, of the foundation of the Guicowar Scholarships in March, and of the distribution of prizes in February by the Right Hon'ble the Governor General; all of which would

seem very fairly to claim a place in the Report of the year, and would have been found there, but for the size to which the more indispensable, though much less attractive portion of the Report has unavoidably grown.

The specimens of papers sent in will, it is hoped, be found, on most of the subjects, very far superior to anything the College classes have ever before produced; and when the number of the studies carried on together is considered, it will be seen that an amount of work is obtained from the Students at present, probably quite equal to anything which exists among the most industrious even of the reading men at our Universities at home.

There is also a circumstance which, in justice to the Students who obtain prizes, and to the Professors, must be alluded to before the Report concludes. The very common practice in India of maintaining a class of scholars who, perhaps, under the name of monitors or teachers, hang on in the School or College for years, repeating the same business as often as they please, and presenting themselves year after year for examination and prizes in the same or nearly the same studies, we are now for the first time wholly clear from. The Students who take prizes on this occasion are new men in their year, and obtain premiums entirely for recent work. Vishwanath Nárayan, at the head of the 3rd year's class, has been in the College but two years and a half; Báláji Panduráng, at the head of the 2nd year's class, has been in the College, and indeed in Bombay, but sixteen months; while Bhairánáth Mangesh, Bálkrishna Sadashiva, Nánábhái Haridás, and Makúndráo Bhaskar, at the head of the junior class, all commenced their College studies at the begining of the term, in June last.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your very obedient Servant,

H. GREEN,

Acting Principal.

PROGRAM OF THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION,

1850.

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

LOWER DIVISION.

The books and subjects studied in this Division are as follows :McCulloch's First, Second, and Third Reading Books, and Series of Lessons; Chambers' Rudiments of Knowledge, Moral Class Book, Exemplary Biography, and History of the British Empire; Universal History; Reid's Geography; Clift's Geography; English Grammar; Arithmetic; The First Principles of Algebra and Geometry; Rudiments of Sanskrit; Also, in Marathi and Gujerati, Outlines of Indian History; The Life of Columbus ; and The Moral Class Book.

The examination of the Lower School will occupy five days, commencing on Monday the 2nd December.

The books and subjects studied in this Division are as follows:McCulloch's Course of Reading; English Grammar and Composition; Nichol's Geography; History,-Wilson's Introduction, Chambers' British Empire, Marshman's India, Taylor's Manual of Ancient History, Taylor's Manual of Modern History; Young's Algebra and Euclid; Rudiments of Sanskrit ; Translation from and into the Vernacular Languages.

The examination of the Upper School will occupy three days: Saturday the 7th, Monday the 9th, and Tuesday the 10th December.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT.

SUBJECTS AND BOOKS.

CLARE (OR 1ST YEAR'S) SCHOLARS. ENGLISH LITERATURE.-POETRY,-Richardson's Selections :— Wordsworth, Montgomery, Campbell, and Pope's Essay on Criticism. PROSE,-Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, 100 pages.

ENGLISH ESSAY.

HISTORY.-Marshman's India, Part II., till the accession of the Moguls. Murray's India --Early European Settle

ments and Portuguese Empire; Mogul Dynasty; British Empire till the death of Tipù.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Clift's Elementary Treatise, and Notes. LOGIC.-Whately's Easy Lessons on Reasoning.

MATHEMATICS.-Geometry: Six Books of Euclid, together with the Properties of Transversals, Poles, and Polars; Exercises. Algebra.-De Morgan.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.-Somerville; Johnson's Physical Atlas. CHEMISTRY.-Ultimate Composition of Matter; Specific Gravity; Chemical Affinity; Laws of Combination; Atomic Hypothesis; Light; Heat.

VERNACULAR TRANSLATION AND COMPOSITION.

WEST (OR 2ND YEAR'S) SCHOLARS.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.-Richardson's Selections : Goldsmith, Beattie, Collins, and Gray.

ENGLISH ESSAY.

HISTORY.-Course read during the Term: India-Mogul Dynasty;

British India, till the arrival of Cornwallis, 1786— Murray. Great Britain, from the accession of Henry VII. till the death of Charles I. Hume, chapters xxv-xlix., and Appendices iii. and iv.; Lingard— Reign of Elizabeth; Smyth's Lectures-Elizabeth and James. Guizot's Revolution; History, Books i-vi., and Introductory Discourse (1850).

POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Mill's Principles.