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 i8o WHO'S WHO IN LNDIA 1900, he has been attached to the Madras Medical College as Senior Assistant Professor of Chemistry. As one of the leading medical practioners of Madras he commands a large practice which extends to the rich and the poor alike. In 191 1, he was selected as the Indian Member of the Sanatoria Committee appointed by the Government. For his zealous and loyal service under the Government for nearly a period of 25 years the title of Rao Saheb was conferred on him in the year, 1912. Address: Grant's Gardens, Madras. T. SUNDARA Row, B.A., I.S.O., Rao Bahadur, a member of the Mahratta Brahmin family of the Gondikars, was born in 1853. His father and two uncles entered the British service in the fifties of the last century. Sundara Rao was educated in the Kumbakonam College, of which institution his father was the Principal. From this College he took his degree in 1874, taking the second place in the Presidency in Mathematics. After a chequered career he was appointed Deputy Collector in 1888, in which appointment he gradually rose to the first grade in 1 9 1 1. For the last seventeen years he has been Treasury Deputy Collector at Trichinopoly. He devoted his leisure hours to the study of mathematics and has published two books. Geometrical Exercises in Paper Folding and Elementary Solid Geometry, The former book was favourably mentioned by Dr. Klein, as introducing a new method of construction, in 1893, and was reprinted in America by Professor David Eugene Smith. He is a member of the Mathematical Association, London, and the Indian Mathematical Society. He is a man of general culture and Poetry, Philosophy and Political Economy engage his sympathies. He takes delight in photography and allied processes. Sundara Rao retired from Government service on April ist, 19 13, in his sixtieth year. The title of Rao Bahadur was conferred on him in January, 1913. His eldest son, aged 33, is a graduate of the Madras University and an L. R. C. P. & S. of Edinburgh. He is employed as an Assistant Surgeon in Tenali in the Guntur District.