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THE latter part of Prof. Saha's address was devoted to problems of scientific organisation. The present world is a single economic and cultural unit, and this fact should direct political and economic action. Practical problems can be solved only by the application of scientific principles, and a new educational scheme should be devised by a world's congress of foremost thinkers, with the object of training the coming generation to a proper appreciation of the beauty and powers of science. The lack of scientific organisation and preliminary research is particularly obvious in Indian public works, with serious consequences to the vitality of the population and resulting in great waste of money. Prof. Saha supported the formation of an Indian Academy of Science, organised somewhat on the lines of the Royal Society, which would co-ordinate Indian scientific work, and act generally for the promotion of scientific research and its utilisation in national and international affairs. He adduced evidence of the need of such a body, quoting in support of his view the statement of Sir F. Spring on river problems in India, that “more money has been wasted, for want of just such knowledge as a River Commission might provide, than would have sufficed to pay the entire cost of it many times over”.
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Scientific Organisation in India. Nature 133, 320 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133320c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133320c0