labour upon Mr. Goswami, and it will not be far from the truth that it aggravated the symptoms of his failing health; but as Col. Gurdon said,—“The descriptive catalogue of Assamese literature was the work of Hem Gosain's alone, and it is on this great achievement that his fame will probably rest and go down to posterity.”
Mr. Goswami played a leading part in the establish- ment of the Kam arupa Anusandhan Samiti or the Assam Research Society at Gauhati in the year 1912. The grow- ing desire of all the scholars interested in the history and antiquities of Assam to co-ordinate their individual efforts was felt for several years. Mr. Goswami in concert with Mahamahopadhyaya Padmanath Bhattacharyya and Rai Bahadur Kalicharan Sen represented to the Government the extreme desirability of extending its patronage to an in- stitution of that type. Sir Archdale Earle again came up to meet this cultural demand of the province under his administration. Mr. Goswami was seen romping about the antiquarian sites in the neighbourhood of Gauhati in the company of his ardent fellow-workers. Many were the schemes which they took up for execution by the new-born society. A critical edition of the Yoginitantra and a collec- tion of the diplomatic letters of the Ahom Court was under- taken by Mr. Goswami himself. He edited for the Samiti the chronicle of the Ahom Rajas recovered from Keshav Kanta Juvaraj. He was in fact the permanent President of the Samiti except at intervals when he was away from Gauhati. His interest in the advancement of the Samiti remained undiminished till the last moment of his life. His ready counsel was a source of inspiration to the younger generation of workers. The translation of the Samiti into a full-fledged museum with a permanent staff and systemtic arrangements for collecting relics and finds from all parts of the province, was the dream of Mr. Goswami's life, and his attempt to enter the provincial
