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THE Indian Science Congress has held annual meetings in various parts of India yearly since 1914 much on the lines of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the handbook issued for this year's meetings contains a number of interesting articles by experts, including a brief history of Madras and its Corporation, descriptions of the museum and Connemara Public Library, the Madras Harbour, the new city waterworks and the chlorination purification of the supply, and an interesting account of places of historical interest within twenty miles of the city. General education in Madras is dealt with by the principal of the Presidency College, and medical education by the principal of the Medical College. The remainder of the little book is occupied with accounts of scientific work in the Presidency in different branches of knowledge, and includes. the work of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, situated several miles from the city and concerned chiefly with hygiene, and an interesting account of the valuable practical investigations being carried out at the Agricultural and Research Institute at Coimbatore by the Director of Agriculture. Contributions on prehistoric archae ology, the anthropology of Southern India, marine zoology, the geology of Madras, and biological work there, complete an instructive handbook which is very suitable for the purpose for which it has been designed.
Indian Science Congress: Handbook for the Use of Members attending the Ninth Meeting to be held at Madras from the Thirtieth of January to the Fourth of February, 1922.
Pp. x + 165. (Madras: Capt. Clive Newcomb, Chemical Examiner, 1921.)
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R., L. Indian Science Congress: Handbook for the Use of Members attending the Ninth Meeting to be held at Madras from the Thirtieth of January to the Fourth of February, 1922. Nature 109, 304 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109304c0
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