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:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC ''The Madras School: or, Elements of Tuition: comprising the Analysis of an Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum, Madras; with its facts, proofs, and illustrations'' (1808) 348 pages] Google Books ([http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PR11 Contents]). [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA212 Page 212] onwards contains letters written by his former pupils to Dr Bell, including a listing of names from the bottom of [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA218 page 218] to page 223.
*The Rev James Cordiner was only schooltmaster and probably the Director from 12 June 1798 to 23 April 1799. He descibes the Male Orphan Asylum, and also briefly mentions the Female Asylum, in his book [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA79 ''A Voyage To India''] from page 79. Google Books, published 1820.
*From 1794 the brighter students at the Madras Male Orphanage, usually boys of mixed blood, were recruited to the Survey school.<ref>West, Shirley. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190405054619/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1316102/ Revenue Surveyor] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 27 February 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2018, archived.</ref> "Madras Observatory ran a surveying school from 1794 to 1810 to train teenager European orphaned boys as practical revenue surveyors".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143502/http://www.insanew1.dli.nicernet.in/writereaddatadata1/UpLoadedFilesupload/insa/IJHSINSA_1/Vol34_4_4_RKKochhar20005b66_317.pdf "Science in British India"] by RK Kochhar ''Indian Journal of History of Science'' 34(4) 1999 pp317-346 (page 329, page 13 of the link)</ref>
*1829 letter by W Webbe, former pupil, regarding his schooldays c 1790’s, footnotes [http://books.google.com/books?id=xgNPsoCD9i4C&pg=PA397 pages 397-398]. He appears as William Webbe in the list of Foundation Boys for 1790 in the listing of names on page 222 of ''The Madras School''
*From the establishment of the gun-carriage manufactory in Seringapatam in 1802, boys from the Orphan Asylum had been taken as apprentices, and in 1813 there were 13 of these lads, rated as Europeans, and allowed 5 pagodas each per month. There was a draughtsman on the staff at 15 pagodas a month as schoolmaster, and some asylum boys were still shown on the rolls up to 1834.<ref name=Ord>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=URK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 Page 194 ''The East India Company’s Arsenals & Manufactories''] by Brigadier-General H. A. Young, Director of Ordnance Factories in India 1917-1920 Google Books</ref>
