Editorial

In Memorium

We commence this year with a sad bereavement. It is with great regret and with a sense of irreparable loss that we record the death of Mr. RAM KRISHNA GANGULY, our vice-president. No member has served this Association so valuably and with such steady zeal as be did. Not only did he serve it as one of the secretaries for a considerable period, but as one of the founder members of this Association, he particularly, through its various committees and sub-committees, officially and unofficially, did most of the spade work in its formation and organisation. It was he who with a few others drafted the Memorandum of the Articles of the Association. It was he who provided the large table we have in the Reading Room of out Library. A large part of the syllabus for examinations was drawn up by him. The little pamphlet describing the "Origin and Growth of the Association," published in 1934, was written by him. Even after retirement from his office he did not lose his interest in the Association, but was a frequent visitor to its reading room. He had agreed to give a helping hand towards the publication of this journal in these difficult times and had been elected by the Council as a member of the Editorial Board. Up to the last we had received his encouragement and advice. But before he could take this publication on hand the Almighty Power has taken him away from us, and now we are left with a feeling of loss so deep and so severe that our hearts go out in sympathy to his nearest and dearest ones to whom it is our duty to extend our sincere condolence.