Excerpt from Life of Sir William Wilson Hunter: A Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, Etc His conduct as an administrator was less conspicuous only because he had fewer opportunities of showing his mettle. As director-general of Statistics, and afterwards President of a Commission for recasting the educational system of India, his success was undeniable. The complicated arrangements for producing the Statistical Account of Bengal, the Imperial Gazetteer, and an entire library of other works, were carried through by him without a hitch or a lawsuit, and he had a faculty which is displayed only by born leaders of mankind. Rarely indeed was his judgment at fault in the selection of agents to assist him in his undertakings. Every collaborator became a friend for life, and gained a share of his burning enthusiasm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.