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continued, first weekly, then fortnightly ; and not until well 

 on in the second year did ordinary health return, and 

 working powers get their fair chance. After this Bose seems 

 to have become immune to malaria ; but insomnia, whether 

 as accessory or as an acquired habit, lingered for six or 

 seven years, and at times of overwork this has ever since 

 more or less threatened to return. 



Nowadays recalling symptoms, kindred cases very 

 largely fatal, the place of origin, and other circumstances, 

 it seems probable that this illness was no ordinary fever, 

 but ' Kala-azar/ still a serious and recurrent pest, of Assam 

 especially, though nowadays becoming amenable to treat- 

 ment, and happily still more to prevention. 



The first batch of students who called on the new-comer 

 were a rather fast set, and Bose was gently lectured by 

 his tutor, who advised him as a stranger to drop these 

 acquaintances, and for good. After this came a period of 

 shyness and solitude ; but with the second year, with 

 returning strength, the merry company of hall dinners, and 

 what not, the enjoyment of college life and companionship 

 really began ; and a wide circle of acquaintances was 

 formed, and a few friendships. His range of contacts was 

 widened beyond the college through a natural science 

 club, with active meetings for papers and discussions, and 

 abundant comradeship and gaiety. Though after nearly 

 forty years most old acquaintances have vanished or been 

 forgotten, a few cordial recollections survive, as notably of 

 Theodore Beck, afterwards Principal of Aligarh College, 

 and of D'Arcy Thompson, since at Dundee and St. Andrews. 

 Of Shipley too (now head of Christ's), though senior to 

 him, he has warm memories, and of a few others now 

 scattered through the professions, and mostly lost sight 

 of. Among other friends were Fitzpatrick, afterwards 

 an active physicist and master of Emmanuel College, and 

 Reynolds Green the botanist. 



The first summer vacation was spent in the Isle of 



