106 LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE 



ment to the utmost brevity and politeness. But this only 

 renewed Howes's wrath, and turned it fully on Bose : ' I 

 have no patience with you : Eastern courtesy is misplaced 

 here ! You are trying to save his face. Mark my words ! 

 People will forget this, and he will soon be your enemy 

 again/ 



The prediction indeed proved only too true, as Bose 

 has repeatedly found to his cost ; isolated in distant India 

 he could not directly meet the vague insinuations that 

 were industriously spread by his antagonist about the 

 accuracy of his work, thereby prejudicing him in the 

 estimation of English physiologists. This sort of tactics 

 was successful only in so far as it added difficulties to his 

 work for the next nineteen years, but it failed ultimately, 

 especially after Bose's two visits to Europe in 1914 and 

 in the present year, when he had full opportunity of giving 

 public and private demonstrations of his remarkable results. 

 The physiologists who had previously been antagonised by 

 deliberate misrepresentations now fully recognised the 

 value of his discoveries and his new methods of experi- 

 mentation. Bose has now no stauncher friends than the 

 general body of physiologists who had been at first led to 

 regard him as an intruder. 



After the two painful experiences related above, Bose 

 was no longer satisfied with the traditional method of 

 writing papers for scientific societies, with their delays and 

 risks of publication. ' I should have been too lazy to write 

 books, but this forced me/ Hence a new period of concen- 

 trated energy began, and some hundreds of experiments 

 were carried out in the next few months. The mass of these 

 are included in his volume ' Response in the Living and Non- 

 Li ving/ 1 which thus not only embodies the result of all 

 his previous London lectures and papers, but notably ex- 

 tends them in various directions. Of these advances some 

 indications are given in a fresh paper to the Royal Society 



1 Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1902. 



