In the year 1900, the International Scientific Congress was held, in
Paris. And Dr. J. C. Bose was deputed by the Government of India to the
Congress as a delegate from this country. Before the assembled
scientists, Dr. Bose delivered a remarkable address on the results of
his researches on the similarity of Response of Inorganic and Living
Substances to Electric stimulus ... 'De la gênêralitê de Phênomênes
Moleculairs produits par l'Ectricité sur la matiriê Inorganique et sur
la matiêre Vivante.' He next read a paper 'On the Similarity of effect
of Electric Stimulus on Inorganic and Living Substances' before the
Bradford meeting of the British Association in 1900. He then contributed
a very interesting paper 'on Binocular Alteration of Vision,' which was
published by the Physiological Society of London, in November 1900. It
may be mentioned here, by the way, that, in course of his investigations
on the Response of the Living and Non-Living substances, Dr. Bose
constructed an "artificial retina" to study the characteristics of the
excitatory change produced by a stimulus on the retina and these
characteristics gave him a clue to the unexpected discovery of the
"binocular alteration of vision" in man--"each eye supplements its
fellow by turns, instead of acting as a continuously yoked pair, as
hitherto believed."[15] He next communicated to the Royal Society his
researches 'On the Continuity of Effect of Light and Electric Radiation
on Matter,' and 'On the Similarities between Mechanical and Radiation
Strains,' and 'On the Strain Theory of Photographic action,' which were
published in April 1901. Then, on the 10th May 1901, he delivered his
remarkable 'Friday Evening Discourse,' at the Royal Institution, on the
'Response of Inorganic Matter to Stimulus.'