The Bose Institute The Secretary of State for India paid
a striking tribute to the work of Sir Jagadis Bose, after a lecture, delivered by the latter at the India Office on Tuesday. Sir Jagadis is in England to explain the bearing of his new researches on agriculture and the cultivation of sera. Although the main part of the lecture was a recapitulation of the dramatic experiments showing the reaction of plants to various stimuli, the lecturer hinted that he had discovered a number of new drugs, more powerful and more exactly controllable than those of our present pharmacopoeia. All the world depends for its physical existence on the growth of plant life, which occurs so slowly that until Sir Jagadis invented the crescograph with its fifty-million magnification, we were unable to discern the subtler reactions occurring in vegetable tissues. Now a whole new sphere of knowledge is opened up and we are confident that the Bose Institute will make a rich contribution to the welfare of mankind. As Faraday said when a politician asked him of what practical value his induction coil would be, " One day you will be able to tax that spark !
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