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আচার্য্য প্রফুল্লচন্দ্র which is independent of the distinctions of language and race. Doctor of Science, for many years Professor of Chemistry at the Presidency College (Calcutta), the author unites all the conditions necessary to accomplish his task excellently, as he joins to scientific competency and a deep knowledge cof history those natural affinities so useful to comprehension of doctrines which follow from the community of culture between the investigator and the theories which are the object of research. No work can, even from a long time past, in any domain of Indian science, compare with this extensive inquiry into the chemical theories for twenty centuries. If the undertaking required the testimony of an authority to guarantee its value, we should only recall with what sympathy the best judge in the matter, M. Berthelot, once gave an account of a memoir of Ray, which ()