[ vi ) modern thought which the Professor has tried to ©stablish. Sd/- N. C. Bhattacharya. CALCUT'ra, 12-3-33. PRoFEssor òf PHysioloo;v. Presidency College. I have read with great interest the articles on /life serially contributed by Pandit Krishnapada Vidyaratna to the Bengali journal //indu. The pandit is well-known as a veteran scholar and educationist, who has spent the greater part of his life as a lecturer on Sanskrit literature in several first grade colleges in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, and is now enjoining a well earned rest in retirement. He is a scholar of the old type, brought up in the intensive tradition of Sanskrit learning. It is surprising therefore to find luim utilising the hard earned leisure of his old age in a fresh venture on a new field. In the present series of articles, he has attemped a synthesis of the speculations of the ancient philosophers of India with the latest physical and biological investigations of modern science. The very attempt is certainly an ambitious one, and no conclusions on a subject like this can lay claim to finality. Yet one cannot but be struck by the subtelety and intelectual acumen displayed by the learned pandit in adjusting his
