its degrading effects, spoils more than mends the recipients. I would therefore beg leave strongly to recommend that this rule may be rescinded at once.
"There is also another point to which I would beg leave to draw attention. At present, the majority of the Wards occupy rooms in the ground-floor and sleep in them. As long residence in such rooms, in the insalubrious climate of Calcutta, may eventually affect their health it seems very desirable that measures may be adopted for their accommodation on the first floor, if practicable.
"In conclusion, I beg leave to apologize for intruding on the Board with the above suggestions, which I felt it my duty to lay before them after an anxious and careful consideration of the subject.
"I have &c.,
(Sd.) "Isvar Chandra Sarma."
"11th January 1865."
After the lapse of a few months, Vidyasagar submitted, on the 29th August 1865, a second memorandum setting forth his views on the scheme of bringing the Institution into a successful working order. The memorandum is quoted below:—
MEMORANDUM.