There was great excitement in} the Physiology Section when Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, the Indian solentist, pictured to his audience the death agony of a plant. This ig the scientist whose recent declarations that plants have a life-system similar to that of animals, that they have nerves and a heart, have excited so much interest and his lecture drew a crowded attendance, What the audience saw was fa band of light moving across the screen at the back of the hall. It] vas cast by a delicate apparatus which Sir Jagadis said recorded the blood (or sap) pressure in a plant. Ina was placed a cut spray of leaves. The band of light was} still. The sap was not flowing. The lecturer put some alcohol into receptacle under the leaves. The! light moved to the left. "The plant lives again," he cried, "Its blood is flowing." For a few minutes we watchell the slow movement of the Ught band gradually becoming more rapid. "Now," he said, "we kill it. will put some poison in the vase." He replaced the alcohol by coral venom and in a moment the band of ight changed direction, went rapidly mid sighs of disappointment from the women, and finally] recorded the death of the plant.
From all of which Sir Jagadis infers that plants, like animals and some human beings, are stimulated by alcohol (a whiskey and soda would do the trick) and can be kill-jed by similar poisons. His theory is that the action of plants is due to nervous impulse and that there in all plants a central heart in the form of a cylindrical layer going} from top to bottom which propel "uih sap by puleations, exactly similar form to those of the human heart.
Modern Travel Lord and Lady Newborough, of Bryn Llewellyn, Festiniog, Merionoth, with their daughter, the Hon. Stella Wynn, and their niece, Miss Southey, made an unusual jaunt by. Jair on Sunday. Hiring a special aeroplane, they left Croydon Aerodrome at 12.30 p.m. and descended at}
2 p.m. for luncheon in Ostend. They] then flew to Brussels, where they] had tea, and returned in their aero-to London, which they reached, clock, in time for dinner. The total istence flown was about 400 miles, The Prince a Scout who is Chief! wonderful Sed fe cott adres Baum apiatate Rama Suen! eile eae shred of evidence reception, when he arrived at Llandrindod Wells from Oxford to spend in camp with the Welsh Boy Everything was quiet wher the ear in which he was riding apopport such heals hes Proached the entrance to the camp, fever come to the knowledge of the but at a given signal the whole of Admiralty. from any. source whatever." the Scouts, numbering about 1,000, lo "No survivor saw ord Kitchener in and stories reseed, She Sore was that he away TUshed from their tents ang there a-thunder of cheering, accom wat panied by the waving of hats and
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