CHAPTER V 



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FURTHER PHYSICAL RESEARCH AND ITS APPRECIATION 



Boss's scientific results, given in the last chapter, passed 

 rapidly into current science, and its text -books, English 

 and Continental, through a series of papers communicated 

 to the Royal Society by Lord Rayleigh, whose constant 

 sympathy was the best of encouragements for the young 

 investigator. A reprint of Bose's collected Physical Papers 

 may some day be published, and lead to further develop- 

 ment of some of their inquiries, whether by Bose, his pupils, 

 or others. 



The main results of all these papers were also popularised 

 in the standard way through various lectures, concluding 

 with one of that series of Friday Evening Discourses at 

 the Royal Institution, which has so long given one of 

 the very best of platforms for the announcement of fresh 

 investigation. 



The invitation to deliver this discourse so impressed 

 the India Office that they granted Bose three months' 

 extra deputation leave, which admitted of its preparation 

 and delivery. Its reception was fully appreciative. The 

 scientific public had been fully prepared to be interested 

 in the work, not only by the Royal Society papers, and the 

 publication of full abstracts and appreciative articles in 

 the Electrician and other technical journals, but from Bose's 

 first appearance in England at the Liverpool meeting of 

 the British Association. After Bose's paper there, Lord 

 Kelvin not only broke into the warmest praise, but limped 



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