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 on furlough ior one year and eight months in April 1892. On return from turloug in December 1893. he ﬁrst acted as Health Oihcer. Calcutta. then became Civil Surgeon of Goya on 30th January :894. During a cholera epidemic in the Goya Jail. Colonel Name gave Mr. Haiiltlne his ﬁrst 0 portumty oi testing in a seient'i c manner his system of preventive inocula- tion for cholera. It was during the same epidemic that he prove tor the first time the a my oi ﬂies in the diffusion o the disease which had unlv previously been suspected. In May 1896 he went on six months‘ leave on urgent vate affairs. and returned to India as Civil Su con and So rintendent oi the M ical Schoo. Dacca.'tn November i896. He remained there till June 190: when he again went on lurlough and returned to India in November 190:. He was appointed Civil So on. aa-Par%nas. and Medical nspcctor oi migrants. and subsetiuentlv Civil Surgeon oi Handbag i. Ilia services were laced at the dis 1 oi the government oi ndia. Home Do merit. irom 3rd April 1904. an be was ap ointed In- spectanGcneral oi ivil Hospitals. Central Provinces. with ranlt oi Colonel.

From 12th December i904 to 20th Februa 1905 he was in military cmp try. and on tzth February was promoted Colonel. and ap inted lmpector-General oi Civi Hospitals and Sani ' Commissioner. Burma. 0n the tit September 1905 he was appointed Inspector-General oi Civi Hospi. tals. Bengal.

He is the author of various pa ts on " Preventive Inoculation in ho- lera." Flies rind Cholera Diliusion: Salol in Cholera. Cataract. Litho

lapaxy. he.

Mr. OHN HOLESWORTH liACPH RSON. C.S.I.. Secretary to the Government oi India, Le ' littive Degartment.wrishorn in Ca cutta on t c 8th August 1853. He is the eldest ionoi the late John Macpheuon. ll.D.. oi the indian Medical Service. who served to: seVenteon years in Calcutta and was well known in private practice,

hir. Macpherson was educated at Westminster School, London, and

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was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. in 1876. The same year he was appointed Advocate oi the Calcutta High Court. and in December 1877 he was appointed Deputy Secretary to the Govern- ment oi India, Legislative Depart- ment. After oiﬁctating some six times as Secretary he “(rival the [:rmanent appointment in Decem-

r mob. During his long career he has served under six dii'lerent Viceroys. Mr. Macpherson has written a valuable legal work. which is in its 7th Edition. entitled "Marple-rooms Law at Sort esin Britts India." He has compiedin six volumes "Lists oi British Enact- rnents in iorce in the Native States." The decoration oi C.S.l. has been coniemzd on him as a recognition

oi his distinguished services in the Legislative Department oi the Government oi Indra.

Mr. Macpberson is a member oi a iamin that holds a notable record in the history oi India. His grand- iather. a well-known Aberdeen Protessor. was the adopted son oi Sir John Mac-phonon, who was Governor-General oi India in suc- cession to Warren Hastin. He did not come to India. but is two brothers were in the service oi the East India Company. .‘dr. Mat-pher- son's lather had six brothers in Indra. among whom was “nice 5. Charters Macpherson. C. 8., whowas instrumental in putt“ down the practice oi hunnn aegis. Major

hiacpherson acted as Political Agent to the Maharajah oi Gwalior during the anxious ’ oi the mutiny. and the wei ht oi his inﬂuence boxed consi bly to induce the M arajah to cast in his lot with the iortunes of the British. Other uncles in the Indian services were : hit. \l'rn. Macphersmi. who became judicial Secretary to the India "thee in London ; Hugh Mac» phonon, 11.0.. who became De- iuty Surgeonotieneral. risin to a

‘gh position in the Indian edical Service : General R. Macpherson, oi the (‘ommiasariat Department; and Sir Arthur Slacpliersrm, judge oi the High Court at Calcutta and alter» wards judicial Secretary in the India Ofﬁce.

His grandfather on his mother's side was the or at Moville. Ireland. being the younger brother oi Sir Thomas Staples. BL. oi Lesson. Ireland.

)lr. Macphcrson married Edith. daughter oi the late General C. W. Hutchinmu. R.E.

ﬁr. STUART LOC KWOOD MAD 00x, .. hI.A.. I.C.S.. Director oi Land ecords and Agriculture (Bengal), was born on 3rd June
 * 866. and is the younger son oi the:

Revd. R. H. )Iaddox. 3.0.. Rector oi Kirkheaton (Eng.). Mr. Maddox graduated as Master oi Arts (UxonJ. and joined the I.C.S. on Jnt October 1887. arriving in India on the 23rd November oi the follow. in; war. He married the elder daughter of the late Brigade-Sur- geon-LieutenantIolonel. j. W. “endows. l.)i.S.. in February 1897. His ﬁrst a pointmcnt was that oi Assistant agistrate and Collector.

led to Gaya. and he became Fat-"mutate and Deputy Col- ector, and grade. in Sui-ember r894. obtaining his next step to the at grade iour years later, in larch 1898. He was at home on leave at absence for about tmty-one months ironi March 1900 to November not. On his return to duty Mr. Maddox became Magistrate and Collector oi Dur- bhutiga. one oi the most impor- tant districts in Behar. and alter holding that appointment ior rather over a year. he was selected (or his present appointment in Calcutta in February 1903. having previously oﬁciated as Director oi