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THE HONGKONG

Sir J. C. Bose Passes Away

Indian "Darwin" Of Botany

TELEGRAPH.

Calcutta, Nov. 23. The death has occurred of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, the Indian selentist who discovered heartbeat in trees-Reuter,

WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 24,

1937.

that he had justified the old saying: MAKE PLANS FOR

ST. PATRICK'S BALL.

That St. Patrick's Day be celebral- ed us usual by a bali was decided at the eighth annual meeting of S Patrick's Soclely yesterday.

"Never beat a woman, even with a flower, for who knows which of the

ot two suffers inost?" In the case light, he sald, the human eye res- ponded only to the ether waves be tween red and violet, but the plant also responded to the ultra-violet waves at one end of the spectrum and to the wireless waves at the other. A small increase of the member- A notable discovery by Bose was ship, which now stands at 168, wo: that it was possible to accelerate or commented upon by the President, retard the growth of a plant so as to Mr. E. II. Williams, who made un the Irishmen to Join bame

the appeal to noxious Insects. Thus

maturity when Soelety. boll-weeyli attains the cotton plant flowers. But, if the

The losses to the Society through delayed hy Nowering is advanced or

the deaths of Messra. B, D, G. Bar- and the few days, the weevil will arrive! low and Andrew Harper and find nothing to aitacic and it will retirement of Mr. T. Murphy were take many years for the maturity of mentioned by Mr. Williams, who the weevil and the flowering of the said that Mr. Haper had been very renerous with his subscription from cotton to synchronise again.

the time he had joined the Society The Bose Institute has become an international centre of selence and ant ita Inception. Mr. Murphy ot eminent men sent also been founder member

had done very good work on the College, memorial to the Viceroy in December

1020, calling attention to the value of charlly sub-committee. Bose's work and expressing the hope that the Government of India would

he

Jagadis Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist who has been described as the "Darwin of botany," was born in November 1858. After studying at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, he went

Cambridge where, to graduated with high honours. In 1883 he was appointed professor of physics at the Presidency Calcutta. At first devoting himself to electrical research, he demonstra ted to the British Association in 1000 an apparatus for studying the pro-continue to extend assistance for the perties of electrle waves which bore expansion of is Institute.

П

written a a strong resemblance to the coherers The scientist, who has used later for wireless. Bose the number of remarkable books on his applied the meliods of the physicist botunical researches,

was the re-

to the animal and vegetable Ring-eiptent of many endemic honours. damn

of

MR. K. R. KINGSBURY President of Standard Oil Company of California

San Francisco, Nov. 23, The death occurred on boarit the

off the Canal siramer Santa Pauta Zone, en route to New York, President Kenneth R. Kingsbury the Standard Oil Company of Californin-United Press.

of

Convinced that the study of plants would help to solve problems

by his animal life, he established researches the great generalisation of the dentical nature of the physio- logical mechanism in all life, both animal and vegetable. He found that the tree is a colony of innumerable Giving units and to ascertain whether the cells in the interior perceived a shack given from outside he invented "infinitesimal contraction re-

by which corder,"

the shuddering

j.. Mr. Kingsbury twitch or cellular contraction under mechanical shark is shown. One of Columbus, Ohio, in 1876, and took up his experiments proved how plants a course in mining engineering in

seni death. 11e

Columbia froin 1896-97. He joined struggle Sugainst

the Standard Oil Company in Panama gradually reasing electric shocks

elected Vice- By In 1897 am was through a piece of living

stem. ncans of his magnifying recorder he President of the Company in Cali- showed on screen the twitch given tornin in 1011, and has been Presiden

director of the under a weak shock. When a high-ince 1918. He was tension current was used, the shud- dering convulfons were terrible to behold, but they gradually diminish ed until the plant was deni.

4

TREE'S HEARTS

was born

ed:

und

The following officers were cleel-

President, Dr. G. W. Pope; Com- milter, Messrs. K. Begdon, D. J. Crozier, J. C. M. Grenham, P, J. A. Hamilton, F. P. R. James, Cani. J. A. R. Fitzgerald Lombard, J. D. McClatchie, J. O'Donovan, C. G. Perdue, C. E. Terry E. H. Williams; Sceretary, Mr. B. II. C. Hallowes, and O. Auditors, W. B. Finnigan Marder.

portraits of notable people and the eritical port of his career was already over. Since then he has painted an enormous number of famous people and has won gold medals at Munich, Dusseldorf, St. Louis, Venice, Dar- celona, Paris, Budapest and Vienna, and many orders and decorations. 1012 he

was ennobled by Franz Josef. Before the War he had settled in England where he was not too well treated during its early stages, but in 1915 he was allowed to become a British subject.

Kalser

Laszlo must have painted almost every crowned head and reigning Angio and London-Parls National beauty of his generation. His sitter Bank. Del Monte Properties Co., and included; King Edward, Queen Ale- the Bond and Share Company. Hexandra, President Roosevelt, Pape was a Presbyterian and a Mason and a member of the Republican Party.

PILIP DE LASZLO

Famous Hungarian Portrait Painter

the of

Leo XIII, the ex-Kalser, the King and Queen of Spain, the King of Portugal, Lord Roberts, Lord Lans downe, the Asquiths, Lord Reading, President Harding, Mussolini, King Feisal, Prince Hohenlohe, Sir John Simon, Primo de Rivera, Lord and Lady Lee at Chequers and the Duchess of Portland. One of his most charming pictures is that of the Duchess of York. Very certain in ahis draughtsmanship and brushwood he paints with lightning speed and has been known to finish a portrait in two days.

"Likeness is nothing", he says, "I try to see behind the mask. Every

1 picture is an agony because I ask myself: Ilave I seen enough?

As

Buse discovered that plants possess hearts similar to those of animals. Be refuted the common theory that the sap rises from the root upwards, demonstrating that it is sent out fron

London, Nov, 22. the heart. His plant sphygmograph showed on the screen the actual

Phillp de Laszlo, Hungarian-born

who became of the portrait painter process of the distribution sap. He also exhibited by his re- naturalised British subject in 1914, cording instruments the effects on

died to-day at his home at lamp- plants of imbibing water containing stead, aged 68. Mr. Laszlo, who had ether and of poisoning them with

painted King Edward VII, and many bromide or cyanide. Bose, actually other famous persons, was elected made

a carrot drunk and showed on President

Roynl Society a slide its erratic behaviour under

derot Dritish Artists in 1930-British

a rule, however, he does not probe too the influence of alcohol. When given Wireless.

far into character, but confines him- water & plant recorded regular heart-

Phillp Alexius de Laszlo, the self to clever and kindly surface beats, but when dipped in bromide,

famous portrait painter, was born observation, nehieving the rare result It gave slower and slower taps as

1800 at Budapest in

of humble of catifying the cliters themselves. Death

approached. On

parents who were against his becom-But on occasion he goes much deeper being placed in caffeine

characterisation. Another asserted itself and the laps graduallying an artist. He left school at 10 to in his

earn his own living so that he might phase of his work is his delightful returned to regularity.

pursue his ambition. After working pictures of children, such as "Johnny" These tests with drugs Jed to in a scene-painter's studio, grinding and "Babble-Blowers", valuable discoveries. Extracts from colours, priming ennvases and mak- Indian plants which had been founding seale models for reenery, he took effective in the botanical experiments to sercelain-painting, colouring photo- In this way he were tried on frogs and brought them graphs mid the like. back to life after the heart had stop-kept himself while studying at the ned. Their efficacy is far greater thin Industrial Art School in Budapest. that of my billerio used and the in- Later he gained a scholarship at the

will lead 10

new 4

| Nalionai | Drawing School. After vestigation

for pharinneopoela

the relief of passing his examinations he went to humanity and the establishment of Munich where he worked under avast-industry for the utilisation in Liezenmayer and to Paris where he medicine of indigenous Indian plants. studied at Julian's under B. Constant One of Boar's drugs now employed and Lefebre, painting portraits in his In hospitals is a cardiac stimulant of spare time to earn money. ünequalled power,

the plant life TC-

TIREDNESS OF PLANTS

He has also etrenicled the hours of sleep and wakefulness of plants and the effects on them of being tired or ill or wounded, showing the reactions of their nerves, which net like those af animals. The rate of their growth-- In often only 100,000 part of an inch n seconds recorded by in cresco-

graph, which makes it appear rapid as the Might of a shell.

In 1915 Bose gave up his chair of Calcutta and founded the Bore Re- search Institute there. Knighted in 1917, g was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920, being the first Indian so honoured for other than mathematical work. In 1925 he de- monstrated his discoveries it Calculin. Next year he gave lectures in London and Paris in which he showed that it was possible to gauge the sensibil!- ty of plants which was ten times pa great ns that of man, but slower in transmission so that vegetation stands midway between the lower malluses and the higher vertebrates. He held

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When barely 24, he was beginning to receive oficial commissions for

Laszlo married on Irish lady. Mim Lucy Guinness and had five sons.

SINGAPORE RESIDENT Mr. Johannes Bartholomew Wes- terhout, died last week In Singapore. Mr. Westerhout, who was 60 years of age, was an old and much re- peefed resident... He was for many, years a member of the 11rm of Oman, architects, Westerhout and

He took a keen Interest in locul af- fairs and served for a term as Muul- cipal Commissioner.

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