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SUPPLEiMENT 87 The title of CLE. was conferred on Dr. Sarvadhikari in the January of 1914, in recognition of his many services to the country and Government. Address: 2, Old Post Office Street, Calcutta. Prafulla Chandra Ray, D. Sc. (Edin.) Hon. Ph.D. (Cal.), Hon. D. Sc. (Durham), C. I. E., Doctor — was born in the year 1861 in his native village Raruli, District Jessore (now Khulna). He was educated up to his 9th year in the H. E. School of the village maintained by his father, late Harish Chandra Ray. In 1870, his parents moved to Calcutta with the object of imparting the best of education to their children. Dr. Ray read up in the flare School till 1874 when he fell a victim to dysentery from which he suffered a year. This shattered his health and constitution to such an extent that from that time he has never had a day which could be said was all well with him. Being of a studious disposition and having a well equipped library at home he literally devoured the contents of it though suffering all the while and Dr. Ray has often been heard to say that it was during this one year's protracted illness together with another year of convalescence that he acquired more than he could have done in his whole University career. In 1876, he changed to the Albert School where he came in contact wdth Keshab Chandra Sen whose lectures on religion and morality he listened to with great attention. After passing the Entrance Examination from this School he became a student of the Metropolitan Institution as also of the Presidency College, Scientific Department, and attended lectures of Sir John Elliot and Sir Alexander Pedlar. While yet a student of the 4th year class Dr. Ray was preparing for the Gilchrist Examination and obtaining the necessary Scholarship in 1882 he proceeded to England at once. He studied in Edinburgh for 6 years devoting himself specially to physical science. After obtaining the B. Sc degree he applied himself exclusively to chemistry for which he had a natural taste. In 1887, he was awarded the Hope Prize