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 872 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. trading, when 4o years old he announces a new faith, opposition of his relatives, becomes a warrior, his polygamy, messages to foreign rulers, regula- tions for his followers: death in the midst of his plans. ‘The second part now in the press will take in the spread of Moslemism, the Koran, Moslemism as at present, the festivals and sects of the Maho- medans.”’ Medicine. 1. Carey's Bengali Anatomy (Hadavali Vidya) Pages 638. Price Rs. 6. Published from the Cri Ramapore press in 1820. Designed in 1818 to form the first part of a Bengali Encyclopedea, to consist chiefly of translation of ‘esteemed compen- diums of European art and science.’ 2. Bachelor’s Medical Guide. Pages 358. Price Re; i. Mensuration. 1. Robinson's Bengali Mensuration (Bhumi Parimana) 1850. The author was an Inspector of Government Schools in Assam and the neighbour- ing districts. This work gives the elements of land- surveying and rules for finding the areas of 16 plain figures. ‘It contains 10 problems—to find the area of a square, of a rectangular parallelogram : an oblique-angled parallelogram, a trapezium, a circle, ellipse, two sides of right-angled triangle, a triangle, a right-angled triangle.’