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210 in 1862 you were first to give a large donation for the purpose of assisting the establishment of the Patna College, an institution that has steadily progressed, and whose sphere of useful influence it is hard to overestimate, and which can be compared only as to the good it has done with the Temple Medical School, with which also you are identified by the large donation given by you at its institution in 1874. These contributions, the spirit that promoted them, and the universal good that has resulted from them, are the results on which is based the gratitude of the people of Patna of whatever creed, sects, caste or class. Again in connection with the late famines in India and in Ireland (your contribution aggregating the sum of Rs. 1,20,000) your subscription to the fund for the relief and support of the wives and children of the soldiers who fell in the Afghan Campaign, your gifts to the Zoological Garden at Calcutta and the Mangles Tolah in this city, all witness how wide and how generous were your sympathies, how liberal and how universal your philanthropy.

"In the discharge of your duties as a Municipal Commissioner and as a member of different other societies connected with the social and moral improvement of the people of this city, you have shown us how private and selfish individual prejudices must be made to yield to a sense of what is most conducive to the public good.