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Professor Jagadis Ch under Bose 



[May 29, 



the response of plant unaer alcohol (Fig. 9) could be effectively 

 exploited in a temperance lecture ! The next record is in the nature 

 of an anticlimax, where the plant has drunk (pure water !) not wisely 



Fig. 9. — Effect of Vapour of Alcohol. 



Pig. 10. — Abolition of Motile Excitability by 

 Excessive Absorption of Water, and sub- 

 sequent Restoration by Withdrawal of 

 Excess. 



