your visit to this country has been productive to you of much gratification, and that your future career may be marked by happiness and prosperity.'

The close of the year 1842 saw Dwārikā Nath back in Calcutta, accompanied by Mr. George Thompson, whom he had invited to visit India.

On his return Hindoo orthodoxy entered its protest against what it considered his violation of the rules of caste, in crossing the sea and eating with outcasts, by requiring him to perform the expiatory ceremony of Prāyaschittra, under pain of excommunication. But he refused to comply with its demands, and after a considerable amount of agitation the movement was abandoned.

Schemes for promoting the education of Hindoo women, and for raising the status of the Medical College, in which he had always taken so profound an interest, now engaged his attention.

An attempt to establish a school for Hindoo girls under European female teachers

fell through; but an offer made by Dwarikā Nath to pay the passages of two Bengali students of the Medical College to England, and the expense of educating them there, was readily accepted, and supplemented by a similar offer on the part of the Government. Four youths, including Bhola Nath Bose and Surjee Coomar (afterwards Dr. Goodeve), Chackrabatti (Chuckerbutty), accordingly proceeded to England to complete their studies there under the care of Dr. Goodeve, and ultimately obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons.

After starting the Bengal Coal Company, in conjunction with Mr. Deans Campbell, Dwarikā Nāth again embarked for England on March 8, 1845.

The vessel which conveyed him from Calcutta was the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bentinck,' and he was accompanied by his youngest son, Nogendronath, his nephew, Nobin Chunder Mookerjee, his private physician, Dr. Raleigh, and his secretary, Mr. Safe.

At Cairo he had several interviews with Mehemet Ali Pacha, the Egyptian Viceroy, by whom he was warmly and honourably received.

After being detained a fortnight in quarantine at Malta, he proceeded in H.M.S. Aigle,' commanded by Lord Clarence Paget, and towed by a steamer placed at his disposal by the Governor, to Naples; whence, after making the ascent of Vesuvius, he set out for Paris, via Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Pisa, Genoa, Marseilles, and Bordeaux. At Paris, where he was a frequent guest of Louis Philippe, he remained a fortnight, and arrived in London on June 24.

His first concern was to make arrangements for the education of his son and nephew. The former he accordingly placed with Dr. Drummond, and for the latter he obtained a situation as assistant in the firm of Robert Michael and Co.

Soon after his arrival, he was received at a Drawing-room at Buckingham Palace; and subsequently, on the occasion of a visit

made by special invitation to the Palace, he was presented with miniature portraits of Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, together with an autograph.

In the autumn he crossed over to Ireland, in which country he made an extended tour, visiting, among other places, besides the capital, Belfast, Cork, and the Lakes of Killarney. He dined with the Viceroy at Dublin, inspected Lord Rosse's monster telescope, and interviewed Daniel O'Connell and the apostle of temperance, Father Matthew.

Towards the end of June 1846, after his return to London, Dwārikā Nāth began to betray symptoms of failing health; and on the 30th of that month, when dining at the house of the Duchess of Inverness, he had a severe attack of ague. A change of air to Worthing was unattended by any improvement, and he returned to London, to die there on August 1, at the comparatively early age of fifty-one.

The question of the mode in which his obsequies should be performed was the sub

ject of some hesitation and anxiety; but it was finally decided, with the acquiescence of his son, that he should be buried at Kensal Green. There, accordingly, in the unconsecrated portion of the cemetery, the remains of the great Indian philanthropist were interred, without any religious ceremony, in the presence of his son, Nogendronath, his nephew, Sir Edward Ryan, Major Henderson, General Ventura, Drs. Goodeve and Raleigh, Mr. W. A. Prinsep, Mr. R. Roberts, Mr. Plowden, Mohun Lal, and the Hindoo medical students who were pursuing their studies in London at his expense.

'The funeral,' says Babu Kishori Chand Mittra, was also attended by four royal carriages, and the equipages of many of the nobility.'

Among the numerous letters of condolence which were written to his son was the following from the Duchess of Somerset :—

'MY DEAR NOGENDRO,—I cannot tell you your family under this most heavy bereavement. May God

how I feel for you and all