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nature— leading to the improvement of the coherer in Wireless Signalling, & Lodge's collaborator, Dr. Muirhead, freely confessed that in the development of the system lately adopted for India, they had owed most important suggestions to Dr. Bose's Papers & conversation. The largest applications of the theory are however purely scientific. It gives an immediate clue to whole classes of apparent anomalies in photography, in chemistry, & in Molecular Physics generally. Amongst other things it led to the immediate discovery & formulation of the phenomenon known as Vegetable Response. In realms like these it has disproved the contentions of many wouldbe theorists of a smaller scale, & there is therefore a strong opposition to Prof. Bose's work amongst those physiologists who have tried to prove the unique character of life. This opposition is of course perfectly normal. It is usually in fighting against it, that a scientific man proves his greatness, & conquers those who disagree with him. But in this case, there is a strong race-feeling of jealousy to combine with the natural & necessary scientific opposition, & I have no doubt that it was through the efforts of these men at the India Office that the opportunity was taken to refuse Dr. Bose any extension of deputation, at the moment when his opinions began to be known. & before his book had yet come out. It was the very man of whom I have this suspicion who in November, believing Prof. Bose to be in India, ( to have been forced back to India indeed ) stole some চিঠি ৯০১ • Ꮌ © Ꮌ