established by his father.[4]

HIS COLLEGIATE EDUCATION IN INDIA

After he had developed, in the _pathsala_, some power of observation,
some power of reasoning and some power of expression through the healthy
medium of his own mother tongue, young Jagadis was sent to an English
School for education. He passed the Entrance Examination, in 1875, from
the St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Calcutta, in the First Division. He
then joined the College classes of that Institution, and there, in the
"splendid museum of Physical Science Instruments," he drew his early
inspirations in Physics from that remarkable educationist and brilliant
experimentalist, the Rev. Father E. Lefont, S.J., C.I.E., M.I.E.E., who
had the rare gift of enkindling the imagination of his pupils. He passed
the First Examination in Arts, in 1877, in the Second Division and the
B.A. Examination by the B. Course (Science Course), in 1880, in the
Second Division. "It is the paramount duty of the University" says Sir
Ashutosh Mookerjea "to discover and develop unusual talent."[5] The
Calcutta University, by the test of examination which it applied,
totally failed to _discover_ (not to speak of _developing_) the powers
of an original mind which was destined to enrich the world by giving
away the fruits of its experience.

HIS STUDY ABROAD

After Jagadis had graduated himself, in the Calcutta University, he
longed to get a course of scientific education in England. He was sent
to Cambridge and joined the Christ's College. He came in "personal
contact with eminent men, whose influence extorted his admiration and
created in him a feeling of emulation. In the way he owed a great deal
to Lord Rayleigh, under whom he worked."[6] He passed the B.A.
Examination of the Cambridge University, in Natural Science Tripos, in
1884. He also secured, in 1883, the B.Sc. Degree with Honours of London
University. Jagadis had, by birth, the speculative Indian mind. And, by
his scientific education, at home and abroad, he developed a capacity
for accurate experiment and observation and learnt to control his
Imagination--"that wonderous faculty which, left to ramble uncontrolled
leads us astray into a wilderness of perplexities and errors, a land of
mists and shadows; but which, properly controlled by experience and
reflection, becomes the noblest attribute of man; the source of poetic
genius, the instrument of discovery in Science."[7] His strength and
fertility as a discovere