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উত্তর-পশ্চিম ভারত। (SC of tiÈè (Lt. Col. Sherwill) è “c:Fs, ER. Èfsso tti পত্রিকায় দুঃখ প্ৰকাশ করিয়া এক সুদীর্ঘ পত্ৰ লিখিয়াছিলেন । * SS CBCLCCEMLSLLEELA GGCL GL LATSA M LLLL LLL LLLLAALLLLLCLLLLSL LSLSLSLLLLLS ----'-M Ho *“. 1 - • • • i -rr r sk "A friend has just sent me a copy of the Friend of India of the 24th June, all the way from Germany, in order that I might be acquainted with the sad fact that when bringing out a third edition of “Smyth and Thuiller's Manual of Surveying for India," the mnch respected name of the late Babu Radhanath Sikdar, the able and distinguished head of the Computing Department of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. who did so much to enrich the early editions of the "Manual" had been advertently or inadvertently, femoved from the preface of the last edition; while at the same time all the valuable matter written by the Babu had been retained, and that without any acknowledgment as to the authorship. As an old Revenue Surveyor who used the "Manual for a quarter of a century, and as an acquaintance of the late Radhanath Sikdar, I feel quite ashamed for those who have seen fit to exclude his name from the present editon, especially as the former editors so fully acknowledged the deep obligations under which they found themselves for Radhanath's assistance, not only for the particular portion of the work which they desire thus publicly to acknowledge. --So runs the preface of the 1851 Edition,--but for the advice so generally afforded on all subjects connected with his own department, Yesterday only I mentioned the circumstance of the omission of Radhanath's name to one of the Tagores, as an old and intimate friend of Radhanath's and who is now travelling in Scotland, he was pained beyond measure but made the significant remark "you see he is a dead man'."-Extract from Lt. Col. Sherwill's letter to the “Friend of India" of 1876.