1904.] Ohituary notice of Br. Maliendralal Sircar. 35 



writings in the Calcutta Journal of Medicine which he started in January 

 1868, and continued to edit for thirty-six years. In 1869, Dr. Sircar 

 published a paper on the desirability of a national institution for the 

 cultivation of the Physical Sciences by the natives of India, and it was 

 through his unceasing efforts that the Indian Association for the culti- 

 vation of Science was founded six years later at a time when even 

 Government Institutions hardly made adequate provision for the 

 practical teaching of Science. Dr. Sircar continued to be the Secretary 

 of the Institution till the day of his death, and so long as health per- 

 mitted, systematically delivered courses of lectures there. Dr. Sircar 

 was appointed a Fellow of the Calcutta University in 1870, and was for 

 many years an active member of the Senate, directing his efforts mainly 

 to secure for the experimental sciences a proper recognition amongst 

 the studies of the University. He was for ten years a member of the 

 Syndicate, for four years President of the Faculty of Arts and acted 

 on several occasions as an examiner in scientific subjects for the M.A. 

 and M.D. Examinations. In 1898 the University conferred on him the 

 Honorary Degree of Doctor in Law, in recognition of his services to the 

 cause of scientific education. He was made a CLE. in 1883, was 

 appointed Sheriff of Calcutta in 1887, and was nominated by Government 

 a member of the Bengal Legislative Council on four successive occasions, 

 He was a Justice of the Peace and Presidency Magistrate from 1877, 

 and for many years took an active part as a Municipal Commissioner in 

 the Corporation of Calcutta. He maintained for many years a Chari- 

 table Homeopathic Dispensary, where he gave advice and medicine 

 free to all classes and creeds ; and more than ten years ago he founded 

 a Leper Asylum at Deoghur. 



He joined the Society in April 1867, served on the Council for eleven 

 years between 1885 and 1901, and at the time of his death, was one of 

 the Trustees of the Indian Museum on behalf of the Society. 



The General Secretary reported the presentation of one coin from 

 the Government of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 



Pandit Yogesa Chandra Sastree exhibited an image of Manju Nath 

 brought from Lhasa (Tibet), and also copper-plate grants from Rajputa- 

 na and Guzarat. 



This image of Manju Nath, otherwise called Manju Deva or 

 Manju Sree, has been handed over to me by one of my European 

 friends who secured it through a Lama from Lhasa in Tibet. It is a 

 Buddhist deity generally worshipped by the Newars of Nepal. 



It is stated in the 7th chapter of the Brihat Swayambhupuran 

 that a gage named Manjusree came from China to the Swajambhu- 



