in the Persian language. The existing courses of instruction are accomplished by the agency of four professors, assisted as occasion may require, by four of the more advanced students who receive proportionate remuneration.
As a temporary and experimental arrangement, the object of which is to prepare the way for the study of the English language, and European sciences in the Madrissa, an allowance of 8 Rs. per mensem is granted to any number of the students not exceeding 25, who may be desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the English language. With the view also of introducing European science, a learned native of India has been entertained on the establishment of the College, as translator of English works of science into Persian and Arabic. This individual has already rendered the article Geometry from the Encyclopædia Britannica into Persian, and that on Arithmetic from the same source, and Hutton’s course of Mathematics into Arabic. He is now employed on Brydge’s Algebra.
Dr. Lumsden, whose eminent oriental attainments arc universally known, fills the office
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