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:*''An Analysis of the Experiment in Education, made at Egmore, near Madras'' Edition 3 (1807) 115 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC Google Books] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=eO9Prv4mOGkC&pg=PP15 Contents])
:*''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC 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.
*Page 59 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59 link], published 1842. A description of the Egmore Redoubt appears in this [http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/23/stories/2003042300110300.htm article] in The Hindu [Newspaper]
* There was a printing press at the Asylum from 1800 [http://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA77 Limited View Google Books] page 77, ''Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India'' by Stuart Blackburn (2005)
* The Madras Veterinary Establishment was set up in 1810 and boys from the Military Male Asylum and the Charity School were to be trained in the veterinary art, with the eventual rank of farriers. [http://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA159 Google Books]
