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 220 ] physician, this gentleman seems to have made it his special business to give his son as good an education as he possibly could. VeIl were his labour’s rewarded. Dr. Ashutosh Mukherjee has passed the university examinations with unique success. He stood first at the 13. A. and the M. A. examinations and before he was 22 he passed the Roy Chand Prern Chand studentship examination. In i888 he bccame a Vakil of the High Court. Th 1894, he passed the 1). L. examination. Almost immediately after, he passed the highest examination of the Calcutta University, he has been appointed a fellow of the University and an M. A. Examiner. As is habitual vi th him, I )r. Ash U tosh applied himself with unremitting toil to his duties as a fellow and soon mastered the technicalities of thU business of the university as velI as its general principles to an extent which few others have done since the foundation of that hody. ‘I’wicche was returned by the university as a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. During his second term of membership in this COUnCIl, he was selected by the nonofficial members of the Council, tn a seat in the Supreme Legislative Council where lie macic some very effective speeches in connection with Universities Bill and the Official Secret Bill as we have already noticed. He was subsejuently appointud a judge of the Calcutta High Court, an appointment he still holds with COnSpICUOUS ability. He has also been rewarded for his services to the University by being appointed its vice-chancellor. In that capacity he was lately at the head of a Commission for frarnng the rules and regulations of the Calcutta University. Ve have very reason to believe that the affair could not have been better managed by any other man as there is no one else in Bengal so well conversani with the university and all its aspects. ‘I’hesuccessful termination of the issue which gave rise to due entirely adverse criticisms from all quarters at the beginning is tO the prudence. coolness ark’ wonderful capabilities of Dr. Mukherjet.