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 fluctuations of the public service, or by change of residence. We have sometimes the pleasure, as in the case of my honoured colleague, to welcome back to the body of resident and active Fellows, those who had taken a prominent share in the labours of the University in its earlier years, and who, while absent from among us, have borne an honourable and distinguished share in the Government of sister institutions in other parts of India. And, in all cases, we have done our best to supply by fresh additions to the number of Fellows our losses during the past twelve months; and by adding the names of discreet and learned men, fitted by their ability, learning and influence to give weight to the deliberations and action of the Senate, we have hoped to make up, as far as possible, for the injuries inflicted on us by time. But there are some losses which we cannot hope to replace. The report which the Registrar has read alludes in fitting terms to the loss of our late Vice-Chancellor (Mr. Kinloch Forbes), and he could have no more fitting eulogy than the sorrow thus expressed, of the Senate over which he presided; but I may be pardoned if I point the late Mr. Klinloch Forbes out to, those of my own countrymen who desire to aid in the great work of the University, as a bright example of what they have it in their power to do. It was not his intellectual ability, great as that was, nor his learning and accomplishments, though we know them to have been profound and varied; but it was the innate English love of justice which, with such singular modesty, was his great characteristic, which gave him such a hold on the sympathy of all with whom he came in contact, and which was the true secret of his power. There is another name which we miss from this year's roll of Fellows, and which we could ill spare. I have elsewhere had opportunities of expressing the obligations of Government to the late Mr. Jugonnath Sunkersett in his general character as a public citizen, and I would now but allude to his loss as one of the earliest, ablest and most consistent promoters of native education in this Presidency, and one whom I would hold up to my young native friends as an excelent example of what an educated Hindu gentleman in the present day may achieve—always cautiously and wisely progressive, liberal as well as conservative, careful of the wants and wishes of his own community, yet never unmindful of the good of the community at large. I feel certain, Sir, that even without the appropriate movement to his memory which the Registrar's>&report records, the name of such a man will not easily pass from our remembrance.