INDEX 



ABERDEEN, honorary degree, Uni- 

 versity of, 251 



JEther waves, effect of, on plants, 

 176 



Allotropism, conductivity method 

 in detection of, 75 



American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, 148 



Asoka, inscription of, 119 



AthencBum, The, 243 



Automatic response in plant and 

 animal, 135 



Automatism, 134 



BALFOUR, A. J., 146, 248 

 Berlin, lecture at, 65 

 Bose, Ananda Mohan, 32 

 Bose, Bhagaban Chunder, 4, n, 39 

 Bose, Lady, 91, 218, 222 

 Bose, Nandalal, 223 

 Bose Institute, the, 119, 242 

 British "Association, Bradford meet- 

 ing of, 92 



Liverpool meeting of, 61 

 Brunton, Sir Lauder, 147 

 Bull, Mrs. Ole, 221 



CAMBRIDGE, lecture before the Uni- 

 versity of, 146, 250 

 undergraduate days at, 28 

 Carbonic acid, effect of, on growth, 



175 



effect of , on irritability, 149 

 Clark University, lecture at, 148 

 Coherer, 57, 71, 72 



inadequacy of the theory of the, 



72 

 Conducting path, fashioning of, by 



stimulus, 212 

 Cornu, M., 40, 64 



Crescograph, the Balanced, 174 

 the High Magnification, 158 

 the Magnetic, 159, 160 



Crookes, Sir William, 146 



DACOIT, incidents connected with, 7 

 Darwin, Sir Francis, 31, 146 

 Death-march, rate of, 151 

 Death-Recorder, the, 133 

 Dedication, the, 227 

 Deputation, scientific, to Europe, 



44, 88, 137, 144, 159 

 Desmodium gyrans, 134, 145, 150 



ELECTRIC Probe, localisation of 



sense-organs by, 189 

 response of metals, 88, 93, 94, 



95, 96, 97, 98 

 response of ordinary plants, 94, 



103, 104, 105 

 Touch, periodicity of, 73 

 Touch, positive and negative, 



73, 77 

 waves, researches on, 57, 58, 59 



FATIGUE in metal, 72, 93 



in plants, 132 

 Foster, Sir Michael, 30, 96 



GALENA as receiver of radiation, 85 

 Gandhi, M. K., 224 

 Geo-electric response, 188 

 Geo-perception, latent period for, 



176, 191 

 Geo-perceptive layer, localisation 



of, 190 

 Geotropism of root, explanation of, 



192 

 of shoot, 1 88 



257 



