Transcriber’s notes: In this transcription, paired _underscores_ denote _italicised text_. A single underscore preceding curly brackets indicates that the bracketed character was subscripted, e.g. BaCl_{2}, and a ^ (caret) indicates that the following bracketed character was superscripted in the original text. The text contains typographic characters that will not necessarily display correctly with all viewing devices. If some of the characters look abnormal, first ensure that the device’s character encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). The default font might also need to be changed to a Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu, Segoe UI Symbol or FreeSerif. Footnotes are generally located below the relevant paragraphs. Many of the illustrations in the book were of poor quality and a few had no visible useful information. Where possible, they have been enhanced to clarify the details. Alphabetic labels in the illustrations occasionally differ from those stated in the accompanying captions. Some illustrations have been relocated closer to the relevant text and the list of illustrations has been amended as necessary. Discrepancies between the Table of Contents and headings in the body of the text are as in the original. Inconsistencies in the use of single and double quotation marks are as in the original; other punctuation anomalies have been corrected silently. Missing degree (°) symbols have been inserted where necessary. Minor spelling inconsistencies are as in the original, e.g. tetanising/tetanizing, Das/Dass, but the following overt spelling errors have been corrected silently: his —> this despressing —> depressing presistent —> persistent actic —> lactic excitabilitty —> excitability Zephyanthes —> Zephyranthes fal —> fall tranmission —> transmission substracting —> subtracting issue —> tissue conducing —> conducting ummasking —> unmasking be —> been end —> and flexture —> flexure tentanising —> tetanising anisotrophy —> anisotropy The cover image of the book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. LIFE MOVEMENTS IN PLANTS BY SIR JAGADIS CHUNDER BOSE, Kt., M.A., D.Sc., C.S.I., C.I.E., PROFESSOR EMERITUS, PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, DIRECTOR, BOSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE. WITH 92 ILLUSTRATIONS _B.R. Publishing Corp. Delhi_ Cataloging in Publication Data-DK Bose, Jagadish Chandra, 1858-1937. Life movements in plants. Reprint. 1. Plants--Irritability and movements. 2. Growth (Plants). 3. Plants--Development. 4. Botany. I. Title. _First Published_ 1918 _Reprinted_ 1985 _Published in India by_ B.R. PUBLISHING CORPORATION 461, VIVEKANAND NAGAR, DELHI-110052 (INDIA) _Distributed by_