Dr. Bose in reply expressed his thanks for the great interest shown in
different parts of this country in the success of his work. This was the
fourth occasion on which he had been deputed to the West by the
Government of India on a scientific mission, and the success that has
attended his visit to foreign countries has exceeded all his
expectations. In Vienna, in Paris, in Oxford, Cambridge and London, in
Harvard, Washington, Chicago and Columbia, in Tokio and in many other
places his work has uniformly been received with high appreciation. In
spite of the fact that his researches called into question some of the
existing theories, his results have notwithstanding received the fullest
acceptance. This was due to a great extent to the convincing character
of the demonstration afforded by the very delicate instruments he had
been able to invent and which worked under extremely difficult tests
with extraordinary perfection. Even the most critical savants in Vienna
felt themselves constrained to make a most generous admission. In these
new investigations on the border land between physics and physiology,
they held that Europe has been left behind by India, to which country
they would now have to come for inspiration. It has also been fully
recognised that science will derive benefit when the synthetic
intellectual methods of the East co-operate with the severe analytical
methods of the West. These opinions have also been fully endorsed in
other centres of learning and Dr. Bose had received applications from
distinguished Universities in Europe and America for admission of
foreign post graduate scholars to be trained in his Laboratory in the
new scientific methods that have been initiated in India.