Dr. Bose's discoveries in the meantime evoked great interest in America.
He was invited by several leading scientific bodies to come over there
and acquaint them with the results of his wonderful researches. So he
next went to America. "While in America, he was swamped with letters and
telegrams for lecture engagements from Maine to California" wrote
Professor Sudhindra Bose M.A., Ph.D., of the Iowa University at that
time, in the Modern Review.[38] "He has had so many calls for lectures
from various Scientific societies, Colleges and Universities, that if he
could speak twice a day and every day in the week, he could not hope to
comply with all of those invitations in much less than a year." As he
was in the United States, only for a few weeks, "he spoke before such
learned bodies as the New York Academy of Sciences, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Science, the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and joint
meeting of Academy of Science, the Botanical Society, and the Bureau of
Plant Industry at Washington. Among the larger Universities, he gave
addresses at Harvard, Columbia, Iowa, Illinois, Chicago, Michigan,
Wisconsin.... Everywhere Dr. Bose has met with a very hearty welcome
from the people of the American Republic. Even the Hon'ble Secretary of
State, William Jennings Bryan, invited him to give a demonstration of
his work at the State Department in Washington--an honour of unusual
significance.... Dr. Bose has been made the subject of many magazine
articles, newspaper editorials, cartoons and poems"[38].... "The famous
Smithsonian Institute showed its high appreciation by submitting a
report of Prof. Bose's work to the Congress. The Bureau of Plant
Industry in Washington recognised his work on plant physiology as a very
important contribution for the advancement of agriculture.... At the
Harvard University his work has been received with high appreciation.
President Stanley Hall, who is one of the leading psychologists of the
day, has introduced Prof. Bose's work in the Post-graduate course of the
Clarke University. His books have also been prescribed for physiological
courses in different Universities in America, and in one of the leading
Universities there, a special course of lectures is devoted to Prof.
Bose's investigations on plant irritability...."[39]
The Columbia University, the largest in the United States, requested Dr.
Bose to provide facilities in his Laboratory "for the reception of
foreign students, who are desirous of familiarising themselves first
hand with his apparatus and methods."