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volumes of ' Transactions ' of the Institute have so far been 

 published. They contain more than two score of papers, 

 which embody many of Bose's initiatives, worked out 

 under his continual direction and with the help of the 

 research scholars and assistants, who by this means are 

 brought into closest contact with their leader and enabled 

 to catch his spirit and enthusiasm. 



There remain, however, many needs to be provided for, 

 if the enterprise is to be prepared for covering the vast 

 fields of clearly conceived research. Much is still wanting 

 before space and equipment can be deemed adequate ; 

 much before such provision can be made for the scholars 

 that they may continue their work unhampered by anxiety 

 for the future. In this service they can look for no worldly 

 advantage, nor is any honour likely to be conferred on them 

 by the University. For the test applied in the examinations 

 of the Indian Universities is that of knowledge thoroughly 

 accepted and established in the West ; and it cannot be 

 until after the passage of many years that Bose's discoveries 

 will reach the academic centres through the medium of 

 standard text-books. 



Hence the permanence of the Institute, and the con- 

 tinuance and progressive expansion of its activity, were 

 realised as a matter of great urgency. Bose, it is true, 

 has made over all his fortune to the Trustees ; but an 

 international Institute of Science cannot be built up on 

 an endowment of necessity so inadequate. And it will 

 be obvious that for such a man as Bose to be beset by 

 business and financial anxieties could not fail to be 

 disastrous. His one consuming desire is and must be to con- 

 centrate the whole of his powers upon his work, in order to 

 secure the full initiative, and wherever possible the com- 

 pletion, of the many fresh lines of discovery to which his 

 researches incessantly lead lines which, it would appear, no 

 other has so clearly discerned, if indeed conceived at all. 



But this necessary quiet and leisure for the pursuit of 

 work is plainly not yet to be his for several years. He has 



