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 full of shrubs and trees cost him a large sum. Early next year he removed there with his library, intending to rent a desirable house in the vicinity to accommodate other members of the family. Failing to find out a suitable lodging he at last took them all in. Shortly he married his fourth daughter Sarat Kumari Devy to Kartic Chandra Chatterjee, both of whom henceforward boarded and lodged with him. It was in this year that Sir Richard Temple, the Lieutenant-Governor (1874-'77), was graciously pleased to grant him a certificate of honour, "in recognition of his earnestness as leader of the widow-marriage movement, and position as leader of the more advanced portion of the Indian community."

His health now broke down altogether, and he was reduced to skeleton. He frequented some healthy places, Karmatar being his favourite resort. Wherever he was a kind of restless, heart-eating anxiety about his educational institutions never left him. Neither could he refrain from