BENGAL VETERINARY COLLEGE.
Preface—General Administration.
I HELD the office of Principal of the Bengal Veterinary College, in
addition to the charge of the Epizootic Diseases of Animals Department
in Calcutta and its neighbourhood and the Raymond Research Laboratory
throughout the year.
2. I was deputed by Government to Madras to conduct the Examina-
tions at the Madras Veterinary College, for which I was away from Calcutta
from 12th to 21st December 1914 and travelled 2,064 miles by rail and 10
miles by road.
3. Mr. Debakar De, Senior Lecturer of this college, acted as Assistant
Principal throughout the year in the absence, in England, of Mr. E. H. Brand
on furlough.
Veterinary Instruction.
4. Class A.—Fifty-nine students including five plucked students of last
year formed this class at the beginning of the session. Subsequently 12
left for various reasons and one withdrew owing to continued illness. The
remaining 46 went through the full course.
5. Class B.—Twenty-eight students including four plucked students of
the last year made up this class at the beginning of the session. One of
these left to join the Bombay Veterinary College as the climate of this place
did not agree with him. The remaining 27 students attended the course
regularly.
6. Class C.—This class was composed of 26 students including six
plucked students of last year at the beginning of the session. Subsequently
one of them left and two were removed (one for continued absence and one
for misconduct). The remaining 23 attended lectures regularly.
7. Thus at the beginning of the session the total number of students
in the three classes was 113, which number gradually came down to 96 for
reasons-enumerated above. Of this latter number. 41 belonged to Bengal,
21 to Bihar, 5 to Orissa, 12 to Assam, 5 to United Provinces of Agra and
Oudh, 8 to Madras, 3 to Burma, and 1 to Ceylon, and 67 were Hindus, 18
Muhammadans, 8 Christians and 3 Buddhists.
8. The recruitment of students was not quite satisfactory although
there were five students more this than last year. Judging, however,
from the increased numbers in applications for admission and on account of
the recent rise in pay and prospects in the Veterinary Department, a greater
number of admissions is expected next year.
9. The examinations began on the loth and ended on the 20 March.
The Examining Board was composed of Mr. D. A. D. Aitchison, Principal,
Madras Veterinary College, as President, and Mr. D. Quinlan, Superintendent,
Civil Veterinary Department, Bihar and Orissa, Mr. W. Harris, Superintendent,
Civil Veterinary Department, Assam, Mr. P. J. Kerr, Superintendent, Civil.
Veterinary Department, Bengal, and myself as members.
10. Forty-six students appeared at the examination from class A, and
30 passed ; 27 from class B, and 21 passed ; and 23 from class C and 19
passed. The percentage of passes in the three classes A, B and C was 65.2,
77.77 and 82.60, respectively.
11. The Board of Examiners remark as follows :—
"We consider the results satisfactory hut suggest that some endeavour should be
made to encourage students with better general education to enter the College."
12. Out of 96 students remaining at the end of the session 84 held
stipends—23 from the Government of Bengal, 5 from the Government of
Bihar and Orissa, 7 from the Government of Assam, 5 from the Government
of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 1 from the Government of Burma,
41 from the District and Local Boards. 1 from a Municipality and 1 from
a Raj State.