एतत् पृष्ठम् अपरिष्कृतम् अस्ति
taken of his work. Our Government could only confer upon him an empty title which he had never coveted. Geniuses are like delicate plants, never plentiful anywhere, and depend upon tender care for growth and development and fertility. Let me therefore hope that the past neglect of his countrymen may yet be compensated, and that better days may yet dawn upon our old and crippled observer of heavenly bodies. KATAK November, 1897. S JOGES CHANDRA RAY. Digitized by Google
