Excerpt from The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose<br><br>Simply a physicist of fine experimental Skill, and of full subtlety, but also a naturalist of the keenest interest in life processes and life-movements, and these among the most per plexing and intricate. His special and characteristic lines of pioneering have thereby arisen. With this dual outlook and equipment, as physicist he brings to the physio logist his intellectual and experimental resources with fruitful results to knowledge, and henceforth with trans formation of laboratories of physiology and their standards of observation and research by the refinement of his new methods 1 andfappliances. Rarer still, he has not only divined in matter, as sometimes did phys1c1sts before him, the promise and potency of life,' but has experimentally demonstrated, as in seeming inert metals, not only a strangely life-like passivity to environment, but a yet more, life-like reactivity to it as well.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.