in a particular way arrested the plant pulsation
in a corresponding manner. The lecturer had succeeded in reviving a
leaflet poisoned by the application of one with a dose of counteracting
poison.

A time came when after one answer to a supreme shock there was a sudden
end of the plant's power to give any response. This supreme shock was
the shock of death. Even in this crisis, there was no immediate change
in the placid appearance of the plant. In man at the critical moment, a
spasm passed through the whole body, and similarly in the plant the
lecturer had discovered that a great contractile spasm took place. This
was accompanied by an electrical spasm also. In the script of the death
recorder the line that up to this point was being drawn became suddenly
reversed, and then ended. This was the last answer of the plants.

Thus the responsiveness of the plant world was one. There was no
difference of any kind between sunshine plants, and those which had
hitherto been regarded as insensitive or ordinary. It had also been
shown that all the varied and complex responses of the animal were
foreshadowed in the plant. An impressive spectacle was thus revealed of
that vast unity in which all living organisms, from the simplest plant
to the highest animal, were linked together and made one.

--_Amrita Bazar Patrika_, 5-3-1913.

EVIDENCE BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICES COMMISSION

The following is the evidence given by Dr. J. C. Bose, C. S. I., C. I.
E., Professor of Physics, Presidency College, Calcutta, on the 18th
December, 1913, before the Royal Commission on the Public Services in
India, presided over by Lord Islington, and published, in the Minutes of
Evidence relating to the Education Department, at pages 135 to 137, in
volume XX, Appendix to the Report of the Commissioners:

WRITTEN STATEMENT RELATING TO THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

83, 627 (I) _Method of recruitment._--The first question on which I have
been asked to give my opinion is as regards the method of recruitment. I
think that a high standard of scholarship should be the only
qualification insisted on. Graduates of well-known Universities,
distinguished for a particular line of study, should be given the
preference. I think the prospects of the Indian Educational Service are
sufficiently high to attract the very best material. In colonial
Universities they manage to get very distinguished men without any
extravagantly high pay. Possibly the present depa