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 MUKHARJ1, Makunda Deb, Rai Bahadur, Deputy Magis- trate and Deputy Collector, Bengal, received his title on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar, in recognition of his public services. Present Address: Patna, Behar.

Ghose, Jogendra Chandra, m. a., b. l., Rai Bahadur, Fellow of Calcutta University, Vakil of the Calcutta High Court, was born in June, i860, and educated at the Hindu School and Presidency College, Calcutta. He is the eldest son of Sir Chandra Madhab Ghose, Kt, the distinguished retired Judge of Calcutta High Court, and grandson of the late Rai Durga Prasad Ghose Bahadur, one of the earliest and most noted of the Bengal Deputy Magistrate, under whose direction about half of that province was settled. Babu Jogendra Chandra had a distinguished University career, and has a large and lucrative legal practice. He was one of the first elected Fellows of his University and has twice been elected on its Syndicate: he took a prominent part in the ins- titution of the Bachelor of Science degree. In 1904 he was elected Tagore Law Lecturer. He is the Founder and Secre- tary of the Association for the Advancement of Scientific and Industrial Education of Indians, which has send upwards of three hundred students to Europe, America, and Japan for Industrial and Scientific training. Through the agency of its returned students many new industries have been started in the province. He has established an Agricultural Settlement at Deoghur, covering 45,000 bighas of land, for promoting agricultural pursuits among young men of the middle classes. A Garden City has thus sprung up, with many fine buildings. Babu J. C. Ghose has also founded night schools for labouring youths and has taken much interest in the promotion of girls' schools. In the early eighties he established agencies for the succour of Assam coolies, and took a leading part in urging Government to repeal the Inland Emigration Act. He has twice been elected a member of Calcutta Municipality, and did much to further the making of broad roads and