পাতা:রামদাস গ্রন্থাবলী প্রথম ভাগ.djvu/৪৭৭

( 13 ) paper by his family tutor Mr. Sanyal of Berhampore. We wished these articles were continued. But be that as it may our readers must have known —as the whole Bangal knows it—that Dr Ramdas Sen was a man of great literary attainments and has left behind him a rich store of historical and antiquarian lo e. Such a man ought to live in something more than his illustrious name. We hope the people of Berhampore will bestir themselves in the matter. We learn theré was a public meeting held some time ago in Berham pore to devise means to commemorate his name, but the meeting has ended—as all such meetings generally end in this country-in a fiasco. Hope. Dec. to 1893. A correspondent of Moorshidabad Hitaishee feelingly appeals to the Indian public to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. Ramdas Sen of Berhampore, whose reputation as an Indian antiquarian extends even to Europe and America. The correspondent regrets that though a meeting was held for the purpose under the auspices of the Murshidabad Sabha shortly after the Doctor's death, and subscriptions were promised, nothing has been done during these ten years, and the great Indian savant goes unhonoured and unrecognised by the people who must be proud of his kinship It is true that stone or canvas will at best furnish a poor and inadequate memorial of the Doctor in comparison with his self-raised monument, namely, his highly valued articles on Indian antiquities; yet his countrymen owe it to him and to themslves to demonstrate, in a tangible and substantial manner, their appreciation of his labours and achievements in an important branch of knowledge. It is said that those who do not know to honour the departed, great amongst then do