what his expenses here are likely to be. He has to keep an assistant on about £ 200 a year, his instruments and appliances will cost about as much, and living with his wife in this country & travelling from place to place, --to Germany or America Sometimes,— will cost at least £ 600 a year. Thus a thousand pounds a year, (or 15,000 Rupees) is what is absolutely necessary for him ;- I believe Sir M. Bhow nagree gets about three times as much for his political work | Will our country fall to give our only scientist this support when so much is at stake, when a chance now lost may never come back to us 2 From past bitter experience, I would not depend on annual collections and contributions. As a friend, I would not advise Dr. Bose to give up his appointment, miserable as it is, - depending on annual remittances. We must make him independent once for all, so that there may be no doubt as to his future, so that he may devote his whole time and energies to his work without any uncertainty in his prospects. I do not know how much money an Insurance Office would require in order to grant Dr. Bose an annuity of Rs 15,000 a year for the rest of his life. I imagine they would want two lakhs or so : — and unless we can find this sum and pay it into an Insurance Office to assure an annuity to Dr Bose during the rest of his life I see no other way of making him independent of that drudgery, humiliation and eternal worry which are certain to ruin his chances and our country's > 88
