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 SUPPLEMENT 79 Ganga ChARAN CHATTERJl,Rai Bahadur, Mr. — Additional Magistrate of Tipperah, Bengal. The title of Rai Bahadur was conferred on him as a personal distinction in June, 191 3, in recognition of his public services. Address : Tipperah, Bengal. Umesh Chandra Sen, Rai Bahadur, Babu— late Judge, Court of Small Causes, Dacca and Munshiganj, in Bengal. The title of Rai Bahadur was conferred on him as a personal distinction in June, 1903, for his public services. Address: Dacca. Mahendra Nath Bhattacharya, Rai Bahadur, Babu — Vice-Chairman, Howrah Municipality in Bengal. The title of Rai Bahadur was conferred on him as a personal distinction in June, 1913, in recognition of his services to the public. Address : Howrah, Bengal. Jnan Saran Chakravarti, M.A., F.R.A.S., Diwan Bahadur, was born at Chandernagore on the 12th June, 1875. His father, the late Rai Bireshwar Chakravarti Bahadur, was a well known educationist of Chota Nagpur. Jnan Saran's school days were divided between the Ranchi Zilla and the Hugli Collegiate Schools and the whole of his brilliant college career was spent in the Presidency College, Calcutta. During his schol- astic career he was the winner of numerous medals, prizes and scholarships. Within 12 months of his obtaining the M.A. degree he carried off the Prem Chand Roy Chand studentship of Rs. 7,000, the highest prize in the gift of any Indian University and was, soon after, awarded the Elliot gold medal for scientific research by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. In July, 1896, Mr. Chakravarti joined the Professorial Staff of the Canning College, Lucknow. In April, 1897, he was transferred to the Hugli College where he relieved the learned Dr. W. Booth of his charge of the B. A. and M. A. classes in Mathematics. In May, 1898, he came out first in the All-India