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what his expenses here are likely to be. He has to keep an assistant on about £ 200 a year, his instruments and appliances will cost about as much, and living with his wife in this country & travelling from place to place,—to Germany or America sometimes, will cost at least £ 600 a year. Thus a thousand pounds a year, (or 15,000 Rupees) is what is absolutely necessary for him :- I believe Sir M. Bhown agree gets about three times as much for his political work | Will our country fail to give our only scientist this support when so much is at stake, when a chance now lost may never come back to us 2 From past bitter experience, I would not depend on annual collections and contributions. As a friend, I would not advise Dr. Bose to give up his appointment, miserable as it is, -depending on annual remittances. We must make him independent once for all, so that there may be no doubt as to his future,` so that he may devote his whole time and energies to his work without any uncertainty in his prospects. I do not know how much money an Insurance Office would require in order to grant Dr. Bose an annuity of Rs 15,000 a year for the rest of his life. I imagine they would want two lakhs or so :— and unless we can find this sum and pay it into an Insurance Office to assure an annuity to Dr. Bose during the rest of his life I see no other way of making him independent of that drudgery, humiliation and eternal worry which āᏦᏬ certain to ruin his chances and our country's X 88