XXXViii Annual Address, [February, 1912. 
pleader in the Central Provinces. He had a remarkable Uni- 
versity career. He was almost invariably in the first class in 
his examinations, in India or in Europe. He was the recipient 
of many medals, prizes and scholarships. He passed his En- 
trance and F.A. examinations from St. Xavier’s College, 
securing the Duff Scholarship for languages. He graduated in 
1896 with first class honours in English and Latin. The same 
year he obtained his M.A. degree in Latin. He also passed the 
special examination in Greek. As a result of his achievements, 
he was awarded the Government of India State Scholarship of 
£200 per annum for four years. With this assistance he went 
to Cambridge in 1897, where he obtained places in the Classical 
and Medieval and Modern Languages Triposes in the first and 
second class. Later on he obtained the Skeat’s prize and the 
Chancellor’s Gold Medal for classical verse. While in Europe, 
he studied at the Universities of the Sorbonne, Marbourg and 
(3) Professor Regnaud was elected as Honorary Fellow 
of the Society in 1879 in appreciation of the great services he 
had rendered to the cause of semitic learning. He was 
eminent Arabic scholar, and wrote much on the literature of 
the Arabs and conducted researches into the geography of 
Asia as known to the Arabs. 
(4) To attempt to condense into a few words and at the 
same time to do adequate justice to the life-history of that 
