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 training. Month by month, the commerce of India is increasing in importance, and though the recent appointment of a Commercial Mem¬ber to the Viceroy's Council re¬cognizes the problem, it is plain that a Financial Member with a com¬plete knowledge of business and methods is well equipped to deal with big questions of finance. In- der modern conditions, it is growing impossible to disassociate commerce from anv question ol policy in India. Mr. Baker ha- served as Deputy Commissioner. D e put} Secretary to the Government ol India’ (Finance and Commerce Department), Collector ol Customs, Calcutta, Financial Secretary to the Government of Bengal, and Secre-tary to the Government of India in the Department of Finance and Commerce. He has served as .1 Member of the Bengal Council. Bom in 1857, the Financial Member is a comparatively young man. His training and service and the reput¬ation lie has made are guarantees ni work that is expected from hint in his very resjionsible post.

Doctor CHARLES BANKS [Surgeon-Captain />/ Balt.. Calcutta Vpi. Rifles) was horn in Ayrshire, Scotland, on nth April 1803 and received his medical education at Glasgow University, where he ob¬tained the degrees of Bachelor ol Medicine (M B.) and Master in Sur¬gery (C M.) m 1886, and the degree of Doctor ol Medicine with com¬mendation in 1895.

Dr. Banks, after graduation, acted as locum tenens in The West End of Glasgow and afterwards in the Parish of Dreghorit in which he was born, and for a short time practised in Dalkeith near Edin¬burgh. Towards the cad of 1MS7 he made a voyage to Calcutta in the S.S. Clan Mackenzie as Ship's Surgeon. In 1890 I)r. Banks was selected by the coffee planters ot South loorg. Mysore, for the appointment of District Medical Officer to the planters, and prac¬tised amongst them for nearly two years. Before proceeding to take iip his appointment he obtained the Diploma in Public Health ol the Faculty of Physicians and Sur¬geons. Glasgow. Having been offered an appointment as an Un- covenunted Civil Medical Officer under the Government ol Bengal, Dr. Bank- left Southern India in ivSi)2, and his services were placed I Permanently at the disposnl of the Government ol Bengal in November 1893. Dr. Banks ha- been Civil Surgeon of Monghyr and Puri, at the latter place he was also for three .tnd-a-hall years Chairman of the Municipality*. His services were, in October 1896, placed temporarily at the disposal of the Corporation of Calcutta for special duty in connection with the outbreak of Bubonic. Plague in that city. In May 1807 Dr. Banks received the substantive appointment of Pro¬tector ol Emigrants and Superin¬tendent of Emigration in Calcutta, and has bold this appointment since then except during Ids pri¬vilege leave in 1899. deputation to Karachi and Bombay 111 connec¬tion with emigration to Uganda in July 1900,and seventeen months' furlough in 1902-03. Since his appointment as Protector of Emi¬grants. Dr. Banks has acted as an additional Health Officer ol the Port of Calcutta for a period of four years, and lor five months as Health Officer of the Port, in addition to his own duties. He has also acted twice, in addition to his own duties as Second, Resident Surgeon of the Presidency General Hospital. Dr. Banks has rontrilmt- ed considerably towards prufessionaI literature, being the author of a “Manualot Hygiene lor use in India," "The Vaccinator’s Help” and a thesis on " Epidemics of Cholera in India with sjiecial reference to their immediate connection with pilgrimages,**and has also published several papers in the /mlinn Afcdn nl Gazette and other journals, includ¬ing pajiers on “Sanitary progress in Puri ” and "Free Vaccination."

He has also served as one ol tin City Fathers, having lxien a no¬minated member ol the Calcutta Corporation from 1898 until iqt2. when he went on furlough. In 190X, Dr. Hanks was elected one ol the Trustees <>f the Indian Museum and acted as Honorary Secretary to the Board ol Trustees during that year and on vacating the post received a cordial vote ol thanks from the President and Vice-President and his Co-trustecs in recognition of the able services he had rendered during his tenure of office. Dr. Banks has also acted as Local Secretary, in Bengal, to the Pasteur Institute at Kasauii. During the seven months of his deputation on Plague duty with the Corporation of Calcutta, In- found time to write several reports on the insanitary condition ol the City of Calcutta, and these papers have been ol much importance anil considerable value to the author- ties in dealing with the sanitation ol the city. Dr. Banks has hern a Volunteer during most ol his resi ilence in India and is at present Medical Officer of the 1st Battalioi, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles.

Mr. PHILIP LONGUEVILLK BARKER. B.A., I.C.S., Under¬secretary to the Government of the Punjab, was born in 1874. Hr was educated at Charterhouse and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was appointed to the Indian Civil Service after examination ot 1897 He arrived in India on the 28th ol November 1898, and served in tlu Punjab as Assistant Commissioner; was appointed Under-Secretar} t« the PunjabGovemraent in May 1903. He officiated as Under-Secretary to the Government of India. Home Department. October to December 1904.

The Hon'file Mr, lustice STAN¬LEY LOCKHART BATCHELOR. B.A.,	I.C.S.. Puisne Judge, High