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SUPPLEMENT 85 Indian who held that appointment. He is a Freemason and is occupying the Eastern Chair of Lodge H. M. Rustomji No. 3186 E.C. for the current year. He owns landed property in Calcutta, the annual income from which is Rs. 20,000. Address : 9, Madan Chatterji's Lane, Calcutta. Abanindranath Tagore, C.I. e., Vice-Principal, Govern* ment School of Art, Calcutta, and zemindar of Shahzadpur, Bengal, is the third son of Goonendranath Tagore and great grandson of Prince Dwarka Nath Tagore. He was born in 1871 and educated in the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and at home. He was appointed Vice-Principal, Government School of Art, Calcutta, in 1905, under Mr. E. B. Havell. He designed the memorial address to Lady Curzon and the casket presented to His Majesty by the Corporation of Calcutta in 191 1. He is an t-^-President and Founder Member of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Member of the Art Advisory Committee to the' Government of Bengal, Founder Member of *' The Allied Artists Association, London, ^^-Vice-President and Life Mem* ber of India Society, London. His principal work consists in reviving the School of Indian Art and he has succeeded a good deal in his mission. His recreations are plant culture and bird keeping. He is the author of '* Art Lectures " and short stories from Sanskrit Literature, from the Annals of Rajasthan and Indian classics. Address : 5, Dwarka Nath Tagore Lane, Calcutta. Sarvadhikari, This Hon'ble Dr. Deva Prasad— c. i.e., M.A., L.L.D., a distinguished member of the well-known Sarva- dhikari family of Radhanagore in the District of Hoogly, Bengal. He is the second son of the late Dr. Soorji Coomar Sarvadhikari, G.M.C.B., Rai Bahadur, who distinguished him- self in the Indian Mutiny in the position of Naval Surgeon on the gunboat Fire Queen. Dr. Sarvadhikari was educated successively in the Sans- krit College, in the Hare School and the Presidency College