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name for ever illustrious by his masterly researches into, and luminous 

 interpretations of the phenomena of the zymotic diseases of livhis^ beings. 

 To the genius of M. Pasteur we owe the great and prolific generaliza- 

 tion that the chemico-vital changes that constitute zymotic disease 

 are, in principle, fermentations, — the recognition and application of 

 which forms the largest and most promising volume of the pathological 

 researches of these times. 



M. Pasteur's own practical applications of his own fertile generali- 

 zation are too numerous to relate : those which saved the silk-woiin 

 industry of Europe ; those which practically abolished anthrax as a fatal 

 epidemic ; and those which promise to deprive hydrophobia of its terrors, 

 are historic. 



Sir George Grabriel Stokes, Bart., F.R.S, &c., who after a most distiu- 

 gviished academical cai'eer, at once turned his attention to original in- 

 vestigation, and in the course of a very few years had achieved such 

 success that the President of the Royal Society, when awarding the 

 Rumford Medal forty-two years ago, expressed himself as follows : — 

 " Your discoveries in Physical Optics during the last few years, which 

 have shown in so striking a manner the powers of analysis in bringing 

 the abstruse phenomena of light within the domain of theory, have been 

 crowned by a discovery even more important. That the refrangibilifcy 

 of light should be actually changed by dispersion within certain media, 

 and that the invisible rays of the spectrum should thus be rendered 

 visible, is a discovery as curious, perhaps as important, as any to be 

 found in the recent history of Optical Science." 



The hope at the same time expressed that a cai'eer commenced so 

 brilliantly might be distinguished by other discoveries has not been 

 belied. Mr. Stokes continued his never-ceasing labours, and published 

 many original papers in various Journals. It is impossible to give 

 briefly a sketch of these papers, but a large proportion of them dealt 

 with subjects connected with Light, Sound, and Hydro-dynamics. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrakanta Tarkalankar, in recognition of 

 his eminent services to Sanskrit learning. He is well known to scholars 

 in Europe for his learned publications, as he is to scholars in India. He 

 has written some original works in Sanskrit, such as the Mahakavyas, 

 Sattparinaya and Gandravamga, and the Drama, Kaunindl Sudhakara, 

 and likewise several commentaries on ancient Sanski'it works, such as 

 the Gobhila-Grihyasutra, the Vaigeshika Dargana, and the Kusumanjali. 

 Some of the Society's publications, too, have been learnedly edited by him, 

 and he is the author, besides, of a Bengali prose work called Qiksha. 

 In consideration of his high Sanskrit scholarship, the Grovernment of 

 India has conferred on him the title of Mahamahopadhyaya. 



