History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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India. It was resolved at the meeting to commemorate the name of Framji Kavasji by erecting to his memory a building which should contain a lecture room, laboratory, museum of art and industry, and library, and to call it after him. This mode of commemorating the work of this worthy Parsi was peculiarly appropriate. It was such as would have received the approbation of the worthy man himself, as everything which had for its object the improvement of the condition of his countrymen, either intellectually, morally, or physically, had always received his hearty support.

Framji Kavasji’s high character will be best understood from a speech delivered by Sir Erskine Perry at this meeting. He said :—“I have been requested to second this resolution ; and, tired as I am, having been sitting in Court many hours to-day, I cannot be silent wpon the subject of it. You, as his friend and as our colleague, Mr. Chairman, know how highly I estimated the character of our deceased friend. He was not a scholar, and for the last ten years of his life he was not a wealthy man: indeed he had fallen into evil days, and yet he managed to secure the esteem and love of all who came within his influence ; and the question which suggests itself is— What were the qualities which won the esteem and love which he possessed of all the inhabitants of Bombay? His eminent good citizenship. He