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12. G.R. Kaye (honorary correspondent of Archaeological Department of India), Calcutta, Government Printing Press, 1920.
13. Ibid.
14. J.P. Tavernier: *Travels in India*, Calcutta, 1905, p.425.
15. *Bengal: Past and Present*, Vol.6, pp.279-80
16. *Encyclopaedia Britannica*: 8th Edition (1850), Article on *Algebra*.
17. *Encyclopaedia Britannica*: 11th Edition (1910-11), Article on *Binomial Theorem*.
18. *Asiatic Researches*, Vol.13 (1820), Article by R. Tytler, M.D., pp.456-67.
19. Ibid.
20. See Chapter VI, p.146.
21. India Office Records (IOR): MSS Eur F/95/I, ‘Some Remarks on the Soil and Cultivation on the Western Side of the River Hooghly’, ff.81r.
22. See Chapter XVII, pp.255.
23. *Ibid*, pp.256.
24. *Report on the Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal*, Calcutta, 1804.
25. *Ibid*, p.27-8.
26. *Ibid*, p.94.
27. See *Tracts on Inoculation*, referred to above (reference 2) for the theological reasons advanced against inoculation in Britain in the eighteenth century.
28. IOR: Practice of Inoculation in the Benares Division: From Officiating Superintendent General of Vaccination to Government N.W.P., dated 6th June 1870, p.77.
29. Ibid, Report by R.M. Milne, Officiating Superintendent of Vaccination, dated 1st April 1870, p.72.
30. See Chapter VIII, p.161.
31. See Chapter XII, p.191.
32. Rameshchandra Majumdar, H.C. Raychaudhuri, Kalikinkar Datta: *An Advanced History of India*, 3rd edition (1967), p.564.
33. *Philosophical Transactions*, Vol.65 (1775), Article by Joseph Black, M.D., pp.124-8.
34. See Chapter XVII, p.258.
35. *Philosophical Transactions*, Vol.85 (1795), ‘Experiments and Observations to investigate the Nature of a Kind of Steel, manufactured at Bombay, and there called Wootz: with Remarks on the Properties and Composition of the different States of Iron’, by. George Pearson, M.D., F.R.S., pp.322-346. See also D. Mushet: *Experiments on Wootz or Indian Steel* (British Museum 727. k.3), pp.650-62.
36. Stodart to B. Heyne: Quoted in Heyne’s *Tracts on India*, 1814, p.363. According to Robert Hadfield, Stodart was probably ‘the same Mr Stodart who many years later assisted Faraday in preparing and investigating a large number of steel alloys’ (*Journal of Iron and Steel Institute*, Vol.85). According to Heyne, Stodart was ‘an eminent instrument-maker’, and according to Pearson, whom he assisted in conducting the experiments on Wootz in 1794-5, Stodart was an ‘ingenious artist’.
37. *Ibid*, p.364.
38. *Philosophical Transactions*, Vol.85, Pearson’s Experiments, p.345.