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SIR PRAFULLA CHANDRA RÂY professor of chemistry in the Presidency College, Calcutta, is well known to chemists in this country as the. author, either alone or in collaboration with his pupils, of more than a hundred papers, chiefly on the inorganic and organic nitrites, published in the Transactions of,the Chemical Society, in Continental journals, or in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. In his own country he is also known as the founder of a successful chemical industry, which, from small beginnings, now occupies factories spreading over an area of eight acres. It is one of the most successful concerns in India, and proved of considerable service to the Government during the war, when the supply of Western chemicals and drugs was seriously interfered with. It is entirely staffed with Bengali workers, and its research chemists are of its creator's training.
Essays and Discourses.
By Sir Prafulla Chandra Rây. With a Biographical Sketch and a Portrait. Pp. xxxii + 349. (Madras: G. A. Natesan and Co., 1918.) Price 3 rupees.
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THORPE, T. Essays and Discourses . Nature 103, 1–2 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103001a0
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