After Jagadis had graduated himself, in the Calcutta University, he
longed to get a course of scientific education in England. He was sent
to Cambridge and joined the Christ's College. He came in "personal
contact with eminent men, whose influence extorted his admiration and
created in him a feeling of emulation. In the way he owed a great deal
to Lord Rayleigh, under whom he worked."[6] He passed the B.A.
Examination of the Cambridge University, in Natural Science Tripos, in
1884. He also secured, in 1883, the B.Sc. Degree with Honours of London
University. Jagadis had, by birth, the speculative Indian mind. And, by
his scientific education, at home and abroad, he developed a capacity
for accurate experiment and observation and learnt to control his
Imagination--"that wonderous faculty which, left to ramble uncontrolled
leads us astray into a wilderness of perplexities and errors, a land of
mists and shadows; but which, properly controlled by experience and
reflection, becomes the noblest attribute of man; the source of poetic
genius, the instrument of discovery in Science."[7] His strength and
fertility as a discoverer is to be referred in a great measure to the
harmonious blending of the burning Imagination of the East with the
analytical methods of the West.