143
Prof. J. C. Bose Entertained--Party at Ram Mohan Library 147
History of a Discovery 154
A Social Gathering 165
Light Visible and Invisible 169
Hindu University Address 172
The History of a Failure that was Great 177
Quest of Truth and Duty 187
The Voice of Life 200
The Praying Palm of Faridpur 222
Visualisation of Growth 292
Sir J. C. Bose at Bombay 231
Unity of Life 235
The Automatic Writing of the Plant 243
Control of Nervous Impulse 247
Marvels of Growth as Revealed by the "Magnetic Crescograph" 254
The Night-Watch of Nymphaea 262
Wounded Plants 267

SIR JAGADIS CHUNDER BOSE

On the 30th November, 1858, Jagadis Chunder was born, in a respectable
Hindu family, which hails from village Rarikhal, situated in the
Vikrampur Pargana of the Dacca District, in Bengal. He passed his
boyhood at Faridpur, where his father, the late Babu Bhugwan Chunder
Bose, a member of the _then_ Subordinate Executive Service was the
Sub-Divisional Officer; and it was there that he derived "the power and
strength that nerved him to meet the shocks of life."[1]

HIS FATHER

His father was a fine product of the Western Education in our country.
Speaking of him, says Sir Jagadis "My father was one of the earliest to
receive the impetus characteristic of the modern epoch as derived from
the West. And in his case it came to pass that the stimulus evoked the
latent potentialities of his race for evolving modes of expression
demanded by the period of transition in which he was placed. They found
expression in great constructive work, in the restoration of quiet
amidst disorder, in the earliest effort to spread education both among
men and women, in questions of social welfare, in industrial efforts, in
the establishment of people's bank and in the foundation of industrial
and technical schools."[2] However, his efforts--like most pioneer
efforts--failed.