ted Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Governor of Bengal
paid a visit to Dr. Bose's private laboratory. On the 30th November
1917--the anniversary of his sixtieth birthday--he dedicated the
Institute to the Nation, for the progress of Science and for the Glory
of India.

THE AIMS OF THE INSTITUTE

In this Institute, Dr. Bose intends to go on with "the further and
fuller investigation of the many and ever-opening problems of the
nascent science which includes both Life and None Life" and wants to
train up a devoted band of workers, with the Sanyasin mind, who would
keep alive the flame kindled by him, and who, by acute observation and
patient experiment would "wring out from Nature some of her most
jealously guarded secrets" and who would thus lead to the establishment
of a great Indian School of Science and to the "building of the greater
India yet to be." There would be no academic limitation here to the
widest possible diffusion of knowledge. The facilities of the Institute
would be available to workers from all countries and there would be no
desecration of knowledge here by its utilisation for personal gain--no
patent would be taken of the discoveries here made. The high aim of a
great Seat of Learning would be sought to be maintained here. The
lectures here given would not be mere repetitions, second-hand knowledge
but would announce for the first time to the world the new discoveries
here made.[47]

The efforts of Dr. Bose have also animated our countrymen. Maharaja Sir
Manindra Chandra Nandy of Kasimbazar has made a gift of two lakhs to the
Institute. Mr. S. R. Bomanji has given one lakh. Mr. Moolraj Khatao has
endowed the Institute with two lakh and a quarter. Other contributions
are still pouring in.

A GREAT 'SADHAK'

With a true _Sanyasin_ spirit, Dr. Bose applied himself to the study of
Nature. His ardour was ever compassable. Even the limitations of the
senses would hardly fetter him in his explorations in the regions of the
Unknown. He expended the range of perception by means of wonderfully
sensitive instrumental devices. By acute observations and patient
experiment he wrung out from Nature some of her most jealously guarded
secrets in the realm of Electric Radiation, which "literally filled with
wonder and admiration" the greatest scientist of the age. Allurements of
great material prospects--which might lead him to the path of immense
fortune--came to him, in the shape of the patents of h