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Francis Frederic Colton Edmonds. Appointed Inspector of Schools, Coorg and Bangalore 1930; Secretary, Federal Public Service Commission 1940; served as Secretary of the Inter-Provincial Board for Anglo-Indian and European Education; also as Chief Inspector of Anglo-Indian and European schools throughout India.

Items donated by Mr Edmonds.

1. Teaching: a quarterly technical journal for teachers, Vol. II, No. 4. (June 1930). Contains an article by Mr Edmonds on ‘The teaching of chemistry, I: a rational method’. (pp.179-81.)
2. Teaching, Vol.III, No. 1. (September 1930). Contains an article by Mr Edmonds on: ‘The teaching of chemistry, II: the teaching of chemical theory’. (pp.27-30.)
3. Teaching, Vol.III, No. 3. (March 1931). Contains an article by Mr Edmonds on: ‘The teaching of chemistry, III: on equations’. (pp.128-132.)
4. F.F.C. Edmonds. Chemistry. Calcutta, Longmans, Green & Co., 1931.
5. Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Report of the Quinquennial Reviewing Committee of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Calcutta, 1931.
6. Government of India, Department of Education, Health and Lands. Report of the Second Quinquennial Reviewing Committee of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Bangalore, 1936.
7. Inter-Provincial Board for Anglo-Indian and European Education. The primary course in arithmetic in European schools. New Delhi, [n. d., ?1938].
8. Inter-Provincial Board for Anglo-Indian and European Education. A report on the training of teachers for European schools in India. New Delhi, [n.d., ?1938].
9. Inter-Provincial Board for Anglo-Indian and European Education. The teaching of music in European schools. New Delhi, [n. d., ?1938].
10. Photocopy of a letter from an Indian student, Miss Ambrosia, dated Bangalore, 16 January 1933 asking for Mr Edmonds’ help after she had failed her examinations for a second time. 2ff.

See also tape-recording LJC 3 in Cambridge South Asian Archive, Vol. 4, pp.204-05.