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Rh for only three months, being transferred for the third time to Krishnagar in April, 1861. For the succeeding five and a half years he worked on there, exercising all his old personal fascination upon those who came in contact with him, and then failing health compelled him to retire. Mr. Alfred Smith, then Principal of the Krishnagar College, in sending up his application for pension to the Director of Public Instruction wrote:—

"In parting with Babu Ramtanu Lahiri, I may be allowed to say that Government will lose the services of an educational officer than whom no one has discharged his public duties with greater fidelity, zeal and devotion, or has laboured more assiduously and successfully for the moral elevation of his pupils."

Glowing as this tribute was, it was one that was well deserved and heartily endorsed by every member of the college, masters and students alike. He left Krishnagar amid universal regret.

His health being seriously affected, Ramtanu went to live for a time after his retirement at Bhagalpur, hoping that the drier climate would prove beneficial. This not being the case, however, he returned to his old home at Krishnagar, and there and in Calcutta spent most of his remaining years. Although never again enjoying robust health, he lived for nearly thirty years after his retirement. They were busy years, spent in the management of his