§ SIR MANCHERJEE BHOWNAGGREE (Bethnal Green, N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Report of the working of the Indian section of the Imperial Institute for the year ending 31st March last is prepared and submitted to him; whether that Report, as well as those for the preceding two years, embodies the results obtained in the scientific investigations of selected natural products from India; and whether in view of the importance of the industrial utilisation of those results and of promoting manufacture from the raw products of India, he will place those Reports upon the Table of the House.
§ MR. BRODRICK (for Lord G. HAMILTON)The Report for 1898–9 has been received; it contains accounts of scientific investigations of Indian products, as do also the two preceding Reports; 120 copies of each Report have been sent to the Government of India. The Secretary of State will be glad to lay copies of the three Reports on the Table on my hon. friend's moving for them; but he would in that case propose that only those parts which are likely to be of permanent interest should be reprinted.