ife in their physiology, in
their vital habits and nervous responses. He has clearly demonstrated
that nervous life in the plant responds to the same stimuli as in human
beings. He has established between animal and plant a unity of incipient
mind. The plant not only lives and dies, wakes and sleeps but it makes
the responses which in animal would be pleasure and pain.

Dr. Bose has made a great step towards the unification of knowledge. A
bridge has been built between man and inert matter. Even if we take Dr.
Bose's experiments with metals in conjunctions with his experiments on
plants, we may hold it to be practically proved for the thinker that
Life in various degrees of manifestation and organisation is omnipresent
in Matter and is no foreign introduction or accidental development, but
was always that to be evolved.

The ancient thinkers knew well that life and mind exist everywhere in
essence and vary only by the degree and manner of their emergencies and
functionings. All is in all and it is out of complete involution that
the complete evolution progressively appears. It is only appropriate
that for a descendant of the race of ancient thinkers who formulated
that knowledge, should be reserved the privilege of initiating one of
the most important among the many discoveries by which experimental
science is confirming the wisdom of his forefathers.

--_Amrita Bazar Patrika_, 4-12-1918.

MARVELS OF GROWTH AS REVEALED BY THE "MAGNETIC CRESCOGRAPH"

[Sir J. C. Bose has recently invented the "Magnetic" crescograph. It is
a supersensitive instrument and the very high magnification obtained by
it surpasses all existing appliances. By this instrument, phenomena
hitherto beyond the reach of investigation can now be studied with great
precision. It shows ultra-microscopic changes inducted in a growing
organism even by a puff of smoke or a gentle breeze, by a passing cloud
or fleeting brightness. This super magnifier was exhibited for the first
time by Sir J. C. Bose before an appreciative gathering 10-1-1919. A
number of lady students, professors, lawyers, doctors and several
eminent personages gathered to hear the great Indian scientist.]

In his Discourse on the above subject on Friday, Sir J. C. Bose
illustrated how the limitations imposed on the advance of science by the
imperfection of our senses, may stimulate the invention of
supersensitive apparatus which reveals to us the existence of phenomena
hitherto