July, 1920.] Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. xix 
where the test was being tried and elaborated by a host of 
workers. He first went to Hamburg to attend a course of 
lectures on Tropical Diseases at the Institute there. In Ham- 
burg he met such authorities as Nocht, | uelleborn and Giemsa, 
all of whom were only too pleased to make his visit to the 
Free and Hanseatic town a success. The Institute placed all 
its resources at his disposal. He started work on the agglutina- 
tion-test for the origin of blood in stains and had photographs 
taken of his preparations. Had he been working in the London 
School of Tropical Medicine, which, as its advertisement sets 
forth, is under the auspices of Government, he would have had 
to pay so much for the use of microscopes, so much for every slide 
required by him, in addition to a fee for instruction of twelve 
guineas. At Hamburg he paid five pounds and got everything 
that he wanted! From Hamburg he returned to London and 
of the usual European languages. He found the historical 
part of the study very arduous, but after finishing it he came 
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in stains, while at the same time watching the technique which 
“ commended * by the Faculty. The book appeared in Septem- 
ber, 1907, and was very well reviewed. By those whose 
speciality in medical jurisprudence gave them a right to 
pronounce an opinion upon it, the book was regarded as a 
work of singular merit. 
November, 1907, he returned to India and went back 
to Saugor where he stayed till September, 1908, when he was 
asked whether he would go to Calcutta to find out the possibi- 
