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WE welcomed recently the formation in, a major function of which will be the co-ordination of the activities of the three co-operating academies in Calcutta, Allahabad and Bangalore. We have now received the first two volumes of the Proceedings of the new Institute. The first volume contains a full account of the inaugural meeting together with a list of the foundation fellows. We have referred already to the scholarly address by the president, Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, and a perusal of the list of foundation fellows shows that the Institute has received the enthusiastic support of all men of science working in India. In the past, India has suffered in that it has had no body of organised scientific opinion capable of representing it at international conferences. It is not the least notable of the functions performed by the Indian Science Congress that it has been responsible for the foundation of the Indian Institute of Sciences, which will supply this want.
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The National Institute of Sciences of India. Nature 137, 182 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137182b0
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