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[ "3 3 JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE. It is ail undoubted fact that Dr. Jagadis Chandra Bose D, sc. C. I. 12. is the greatest scientist of India in the present century. ^ !e was horn at Vikrampore in East Bengal in a respectable family. After graduating in the Calcutta University he started for England to complete his education. He joined the Cambridge University, where the Cavendish Laboratory afforded him much facilities for original research. In 1884 he took his B. A. degree at Cambridge, and his B. sc. degree at the London University. Since his return 10 India he has been working as professor of physical science in the Presidency College, Calcutta. As a professor he has done much to improve the study of natural science in the Presidency College. The laboratory of the premier College in Bengal, justly famous as it is, owes not a little to . his efforts. Moreover, as a teacher of science he has scarcely been equalled in this country. In the beginning of 1895 Professor Bose began his researches. In the Ma> of that year he read his famous essay" "on the polari- sation of the electric ray" before the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. It created a sensation in the learned world. Lord Kelvin, the greatest electrician of the century, expressed himself as "literally filled with wonder and admiration for so much success in these difficult and novel experimental problems." The Times was unqualified in its praise ; "the paper," it said, "forms the outcome of the two lines of labour— construction i(of instru- ments) and research." Dr. Bose's second essay on "The determination of the Indices of refraction for the Indices of refraction for the electric ray" was sent to the Royal Society of London and published in its proceedings. The society aided him with money in order to facilitate his resear- ches — a strong proof of the society's high appreciation of his works. The Bengal Goventment was not also failing In its duties. It started a research fund, and placed it under the management of Dr. Bose. The chief drawbacks of a votary of science in this country is that he is out of touch with the learned world. He has to waste years«of labour in constructing instruments and appliances, which would at best be imperfect. Occasional visits to Europe would save this