CONTENTS
chap. page I. Childhood and Early Education................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1 II. College Days at Calcutta and in England................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................23 III. Early Struggles................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................32 IV. First Researches in Physics, Electric Waves................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................43 V. Further Physical Research and its Appreciation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................61 VI. Physical Researches continued. The Theory of Molecular Strain and its Interpretations................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................71 VII. Response in the Living and Non-Living................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................86 VIII. Holidays and Pilgrimages................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................108 IX. Plant Response................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................120 X. Irritability of Plants................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................137 XI. The Automatic Record of Growth................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................153 XII. Various Movements in Plants................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................161 XIII. The Response of Plants to Wireless Stimulation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................172 XIV. Tropisms................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................181 XV. The Sleep of Plants................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................103 XVI. Psycho-Physics................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................205 XVII. Friendships and Personality................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................217 XVIII. The Dedication................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................227 XIX. The Bose Research Institute................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................242