principal collector of the district; and I request that to that preliminary ordeal. effects of the climate, nor without an anxious desire, from the Missionary Society at Dimhutty, under the care been injured by the heat of the plains of India. " As the bungalows are now in good repair, no and especially those who are married, from flying to 122 APPENDIX. " I CANNOT leave the Neilgherry Hills without ex- to place them within the reach of all classes of persons, (to whatever presidencies belonging) whose health has in need of lodging on their first arrival, this essential APPENDIX. J23 fatal progress. To provide for these cases, I have pressing my encreased confidence in the healthful of the officer commanding on the Hills, and of the therefore determined to place the bungalows I bought comfort free of expence. (Signed) " R. BAIKIE, M. D. be best calculated to afford to persons who really stand the Hills, before dangerous diseases have made a " The expence of house-rent, together with the un- PRESIDENT'S MINUTE. certainty of obtaining a lodging upon the first arrival, restrains many in the subordinate ranks of the service, they will form such regulations as shall in their opinion Superintending Medical Officer."