From The Hindu Archives, June 12, 1926: The Darwin of Botany

From The Hindu Archives, June 12, 1926: Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose was entertained at a luncheon… by the British Indian Union. Lord Lee of Fareham, who presided, paid a tribute to Sir J.C. Bose’s work in the cause of science and humanity. He stated that he understood that this “Darwin of Botany” hoped to make it possible to substitute plants for animals for vivisection. It was Sir J.C. Bose’s dream to make the Bose Research Institute, Calcutta, “a microcosm of the League of Nations”.

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