line that up to this
time was being drawn, become suddenly reversed and then ends. This is
the last answer of the plant.

"These our mute companions, silently growing beside our door, have now
told us the tale of their life-tremulousness and their death-spasm in
script that is as inarticulate as they. May it not be said that this
story has a pathos of its own beyond any that we may have conceived?

"We have now before our mind's eye the whole organism of the perceiving,
throbbing and responding plant, a complex unity and not a congeries of
unrelated parts. The barriers which separated kindred phenomena in the
plant and animal are now thrown down. Thus community throughout the
great ocean of life is seen to outweigh apparent dissimilarity Diversity
is swallowed up in unity.

"In realising this, is our sense of final mystery of things deepened or
lessened? Is our sense of wonder diminished when we realise in the
infinite expanse of life that is silent and voiceless the foreshadowings
of more wonderful complexities? Is it not rather that science evokes in
us a deeper sense of awe? Does not each of her new advances gain for us
a step in that stairway of rock which all must climb who desire to look
from the mountain tops of the spirit upon the promised land of truth?"

Sir Jagadis then gave a most interesting exposition of his researches
with the aid of magic lantern slides.

SENSITIVENESS IN PLANTS

Referring first of all his discovery of sensitiveness in plants, he said
that in that respect they were akin to the human system. He illustrated
this truth by a demonstration of the reaction that takes place in the
frog when a shock is communicated and side by side presenting the
reaction that is similarly effected in the plant. "Plants have a nervous
system like our own," he said, and with the aid of an enlarged
illustration of the mimosa he showed the changes that took place when
the plant was disturbed. Turning to plant autograph, he spoke of the
Resonant Recorder, a special apparatus which he has invented to prove
how even plants are tuned to environment. Certain tunes had no effect on
plants, he said, while others had and he asked them specially to observe
the beautiful and variegated colour formation produced by their response
to tunes. He gave an interesting experiment on this point, and both Lord
and Lady Willingdon tried it. There was a great outburst of cheering,
which was renewed each time the effect was produ