The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) August 1944

'rho Professors and I:loaders of medicine and surgery expounded the Canons of Avicenna the Aphorisms of Hippocrates the Microtegmus of °sienna the Texts of Trusian and of Jacobi. [...] According to the calculation of the Director of Statistics which appears in the Review of the Trade in India 1917-18 the ratio of net profits to paid-up capital of jute mills as a whole was 58 per cent in 1915 75 per cent in 1916 49 per cent in 1917 and 73 per cent in the first half of 1918 which last the Director held was " easily a record figure." Then came the depression which not only re [...] Lectures in General Material Culture have dealt with the diffusion independent invention and discovery of the material items of culture effects of environment on artefacts the description of the important artefacts the importance of blow guns in connection with problems of diffusion and evolution different methods of making fire origin of _ pottery various methods of the decoration of potte [...] The lectures on the Origin of Civilisation dealt with the disciplines that are helpful in the reconstruction of the prehistoric past of man the pliocene origin of man and why does change in human affairs take place. [...] But the rate of developmei of the science and the creation of better understanding would be subjea to one condition and that is the presence or otherwise of the Imperialis outlook of domination and exploitation.