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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . appointed as Principal, Elphinstone College, Bombay, 1887; succeeded Mr. K. T. Telang as Professor in the Government Law School, Bombay, 1889; from 1891 to 1894 he was Acting Chief Presidency Magistrate, Bombay. 1891-94; confirmed, 1895; Administrator-General, 1895. Address: Bombay.  Sly, Frank George, C.S.I. (1911), Commissioner of Berar; s. of George Sly; educ: Balliol College, Oxford; joined I.C.S., 1885; Under Secretary, Government of India, 1835-98; Political Agent, Chattisgarh Feudatories, 1839; Commissioner of Settlement and Agriculture, 1904-05; Inspector-General of Agriculture, 1904-05; Commissioner of Berar, 1908-12; Member, Royal Public Services Commission, India, 1912. Address: c/o H.S. King Co., 9, Pall Mall. S.W. Club: East India United Service.  Smeeth, Dr. W. P., M.A., D.Sc, B.E., A.R.S.M., A.R.C.Sc.S., F.G.S, Geologist, Chief Inspector of Mines and Secretary, Government of Mysore; b. Dublin, 1865; educ: at St. Columba College, Rathfarnham, and Trinity College, Dublin; Senior moderator and gold medallist in Experimental Science; passed B.A., 1883; passed M.A., and D.Sc, 1889; employed in the designing office of Mather and Platt, Engineers at Salford; employed at the Royal College of Science, London, 1889-92; took the Associateships of the Royal College of Science and Royal School of Mines; Geology Demonstrator and Lecturer in Metallurgy, University of Sydney, Australia, 1892-97; joined Mysore service, 1898; rose to present rank, 1900. Address: Bangalore, Mysore State.  Smith, Arthur Paul, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Travancore, (Retd.) and Journalist, Madras; s. of Edward Smith of Ootacamund; youngest brother of late W. E. Smith, founder of Messrs. W. E. Smith & Co., Madras; b. 1854; educ: at Nash’s School, Ootacamund; at Dr. G. U. Pope’s Grammar School, Snodon, Ootacamund; joined Government service in the Madras Revenue Survey,1873; joined Travancore State service as Assistant Superintendent, Revenue Survey; did good work in the Minor Triangulation of the State; transferred to the Forest Department of the State; became Deputy Conservator of Forests; retired, 1907; was Editor of the Western Star, Cochin; special correspondent of the Madras Mail, and was on the staff of the latter for nearly two years; Assistant Editor, Madras Times, 1913-1914. Publications: Many articles in the Madras Review, the Hindustan Review, the Modern Review, the Madras Times, The Madras Mail, the Hindu, and other papers; numerous stories and sketches concerning Indian life and character. Address; 11, Sembudass Street, Georgetown, Madras.  Smith, Charles Michie, B.Sc, F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E., C.I.E. (1910), Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatory, (Retd.); b. Keig, Aberdeenshire, 1854; s. Rev. Doctor W. Pirie Smith; educ: Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities; on electrical staff of Thomson and Jenkin, 1874-75; Professor of Physical Science, 403