r is to be referred in a great measure to the
harmonious blending of the burning Imagination of the East with the
analytical methods of the West.

APPOINTED AS A PROFESSOR

After having completed his education abroad. Jagadis chose the teaching
of Science as his vocation. He was appointed as Professor of Physical
Science at the Presidency College, Calcutta. He joined the service on
the 7th January, 1885. Although he was appointed in Class IV of the
_then_ Bengal Educational Service, (which afterwards merged in the
present Indian Educational Service), he was not admitted to the full
scale of pay of the Service. He, being an Indian, was allowed to draw
only two-thirds the pay of his grade. This humiliating distinction was,
however, removed in his case, on the 21st September 1903, when the
bureaucracy could not any longer ignore the pressure of enlightened
opinion that was brought to bear on it.

HIS RESEARCHES ON ELECTRIC WAVES

It was in 1887, some times after Professor J. C. Bose had joined the
Presidency College, Hertz demonstrated, by direct experiment, the
existence of Electric Waves--the properties of which had been predicted
by Clerk Maxwell long before. This great discovery sent a reverberation
through the gallery of the scientific world. And, at once, the
scientists in all countries began to devote their best energies to
explorations in this new Realm of Nature. Young J. C. Bose--who had
drunk deep at the springs of Scientific Knowledge and whose imagination
had been very deeply touched by the scientific activities of the West
and who had in him the burning desire that India should 'enter the world
movement for that advancement of knowledge'--also followed suit.

DIFFICULTIES OF RESEARCHES

When, however, Prof. J. C. Bose joined the Presidency College, there was
no laboratory worth the name there, nor had he any of 'those mechanical
facilities at his disposal which every prominent European and American
experimental scientist commands'. He had to work under discouraging
difficulties before he could begin his investigations. He was, however,
not a man to quarrel with circumstances. He bravely accepted them and
began to work in his own private laboratory and with appliances which,
in any other country, would be deemed inadequate. He applied himself
closely to the investigation of the invisible etheric waves and, with
the simple means at his command, accomplished things, which few were
able to perform in