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lity or otherwise of utilising the bio-chemical tests for the 
origin of blood-stains in medicolegal work in India. He came 
to Calcutta and worked here for a year reporting at the end of 
le 
Professor Sigmund Freud and of Dr. Friedrich 8S. Krauss, the 
editor of “ Anthropophyteia.”’ In 1912 Sutherland was for a 
short time Civil Surgeon at Jubbulpore and then he left to take 
up the post in Calcutta created for him by the Government of 
jurisprudence in this country but to Serology as a science. 
pleased to signify its appreciation of his great services to 
medical jurisprudence in India. Later still he experienced the 
keenest pleasure in exercising his literary abilities in the edito- 
rial chair of the Indian Medical Gazette. 
He was a remarkable linguist and spoke and wrote admir- 
ably both French and German. He could make an excellent 
impromptu speech in high-class Urdu, and of Burmese, Italian 
and Spanish he knew nota little. His knowledge of the classic 
al languages was limited to Latin which he would often quote 
with meticulous accuracy and singular relevance. Of his own 
even after years of study. Ona great variety of subjects he 
was a mine of accurate information, yet he rarely indulged in 
Many of hi 
after years of association with him they were always liable to 
strike a new and utterly unexpected vein in his mine of know- 
ledge. His appreciation of his friends, especially his profes- 
sional friends, was always wholehearted and utterly without 
any sort of reservation. He was absolutely incapable of 
jealousy as well as of any feeling of hostility towards the rising 
generation which is such a direful characteristic in many men 
who have passed their intellectual climacteric. 
Although he took a great delight in the society of women, 
he was essentially a man’s man, and as a host he had few 
equals. Few men manage to get through their lives without 
