tion, not only, by the
publication, with high tributes, of a paper of his 'On the Determination
of the Indices of Electric Refraction,' in December 1896, and another
paper on the 'Determination of the Wave-length of Electric Radiation,'
in June 1896, but also, by the offer, of their own accord, of an
appropriation from the Special Parliamentary Grant made to the Society
for the Advancement of Knowledge, for continuation of his work.

In recognition of the importance of the contribution made by Prof. Bose,
the University of London conferred on him the Degree of Doctor of
Science and the Cambridge University, the degree of M.A., in 1896. And,
to crown all, the Royal Institution of Great Britain--rendered famous by
the labour of Davy and Faraday, of Rayleigh and Dewar--honoured him by
inviting to deliver a 'Friday Evening Discourse' on his original work.
It would not be out of place to observe that the rare privilege of being
invited to deliver a 'Friday Evening Discourse' is regarded as one of
the highest distinction that can be conferred on a scientific man.

HIS FIRST SCIENTIFIC DEPUTATION. (1896-97)

The Government of India showed its appreciation of his work by deputing
him to Europe to place the results of his investigations before the
learned Scientific Bodies. He remained on his Deputation from the 22nd
July 1896 to the 19th April 1897. He read a paper 'On a complete
Apparatus for studying the Properties of Electric Waves' at the meeting
of British Association, held at Liverpool, in 1896. He then communicated
a paper 'On the Selective Conductivity exhibited by Polarising
Substances,' which was published by the Royal Society, in January 1897.
He next delivered his 'Friday Evening Discourse,' at the Royal
Institution, 'On Electric Waves,' on the 29th January 1897. "There is,
however, to our thinking" wrote the _Spectator_ at the time "something
of rare interest in the spectacle presented of a Bengalee of the purest
descent possible, lecturing in London to an audience of appreciative
European savants upon one of the most recondite branches of the modern
physical science." He was then invited to address the Scientific
Societies in Paris. "Prof. J. C. Bose" wrote the Review Encyclopedique,
Paris "exhibited on the 9th of March before the Sorbonne, an apparatus
of his invention for demonstrating the laws of reflection, refraction,
and polarisation of electric waves. He repeated his experiments on the
22nd, before a la