70 LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE 



forthcoming, the Government gazetted Bose to the highest 

 grade, with retrospective effect. The large amount thus 

 received was fully credited to the account of the Research 

 Institute, which was to be materialised in a few years' 

 time. A legacy towards this also came from an old and 

 valued friend. 



Regarding Bose's claim on Government for facilities of 

 research, it must be said to its credit that the idea was 

 not dropped altogether. Lord Curzon indeed, when Viceroy, 

 desired to revive it. But, as he was not a scientific man 

 himself, he sent a cable to four English men of science 

 for their opinion. The two physicist referees cabled their 

 highest appreciation of Bose's work ; but the other two 

 happened to. belong to the physiological camp (and as will 

 be seen later) hostile to Bose, and they opposed the 

 idea. In this .dilemma, where scientific opinion seemed so 

 evenly divided, the Viceroy, by way of compromise, con- 

 ferred on Bose at the Delhi Durbar in 1902 the decoration 

 of the Companionship of the Indian Empire. 



