opaque, it became quite transparent when held in a particular direction as regards the impinging ray. Mr. Gourlay observed that the lecture opened out to himself, as well as to other vistas, which they had never dreamt of before. --_Amrita Bazar Patrika_, 31-1-1913. PROFESSOR J. C. BOSE AT LAHORE LECTURE ON ELECTRIC RADIATION A crowded assembly met at the University Hall, on the 22nd February, 1913, to hear the first of Prof. Bose's discourses before the University of Lahore. Dr. Bose opened his address by alluding to the historic journey of Jivaka, who afterwards became the physician of Buddha, making his way from Bengal to the University of Taxila, in quest of knowledge. Twenty-five centuries had gone by and there was before them another pilgrim who had journeyed the same distance to bring, as an offering what he had gathered in the domain of knowledge. The lecturer called attention to the fact that knowledge was never the exclusive possession of any particular race nor did it ever recognise geographical limitations. The whole world was interdependent, and a constant interchange of thought had been carried on throughout the ages enriching the common heritage of mankind. Hellenistic Greeks and Eastern Aryans had met here in Taxila to exchange the best each had to offer. After many centuries the East and West had met once more, and it would be the test of the real greatness of the two civilisations that both should be finer and better for the shock of contact. The apparent dormancy of intellectual life in India had been only a temporary phase. Just like the oscillations of the seasons found the globe, great pulsations of intellectual activity pass over the different peoples of the earth.