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In Berlin his discourse was to the Academy of Sciences, 

 which printed his comprehensive experimental summary. 

 To this discourse not only the Berlin physicists turned 

 out, but some from a much greater distance : thus old 

 Professor Quincke of Heidelberg, who had been greatly 

 interested in the subject and had endeavoured to 

 construct Bose's apparatus, came all the way expressly 

 to hear him, and to invite him to visit his laboratory. 

 At Berlin, Helmholtz's successor, Professor Warburg, 

 told another investigator who was asking his advice 

 about taking up electric waves : ' Bose has left you 

 practically nothing to do : better try something else/ 

 A visit to Kiel to lecture before the University and to 

 meet Ebert, a notable worker in Electro-magnetism, and 

 next a pleasant stay in Heidelberg to visit Quincke, Lenard 

 and others, completed this tour ; and Bose then started 

 homewards from Marseilles. 



From the above account of the success of Bose's scientific 

 deputation to Europe, it will be seen that the long-standing 

 prejudice which the West had entertained regarding the 

 incapacity of Indians to do advanced scientific work 

 was removed. Bose was in fact here the pioneer 

 who succeeded in breaking through what had so long 

 seemed a closed door, and thus opened the highway into 

 active and productive science for his countrymen. 



Referring to Bose's work, Sir Henry Roscoe, the Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University of London, acknowledged that 

 the Eastern mind was equally capable of making great 

 scientific discoveries and producing experimentalists as 

 eminent as those of the West. And Lord Reay, the former 

 Governor of Bombay, representing the statesman's point 

 of view, drew attention to the importance of India's 

 contribution to science : ' For science was absolutely 

 international, and any result obtained by Dr. Bose in India 

 could at once be annexed by us without protest.' 



Not only were scientific men impressed by the importance 



