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IN his presidential address in January of last year to the premier Indian academy, the National Institute of Sciences of India, Sir Lewis Fermor welcomed the formation in Bangalore of the Indian Academy of Sciences, which owes its inception to the energies of Sir Venkata Raman. The Indian Academy of Sciences is already well known through the medium of its publications, and in December last Sir Venkata Raman delivered his presidential address at the first annual meeting, which was held in Bombay. In this he clearly set forth the aims of the Academy, and at the same time he appealed for funds to enable it to continue and extend its activities, and also for the erection of a suitable building for which the generosity of the Maharajah of Mysore had already provided a site adjacent to the Indian Institute of Science. It is somewhat surprising to find in the address no reference to the National Institute of Sciences with which, from Sir Lewis Fermor's remarks, we had gathered it was to co-operate. We trust that the absence of such reference does not imply that this co-operation has ceased. If the growing body of scientific thought in India is to exercise that influence on the government of the country, which is its due, or if it is to be adequately represented at international conferences, it can only be through the agency of a national organisation. Valuable as may be the local activities of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Academies at Allahabad and Bangalore, they cannot fulfil these duties.
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The Indian Academy of Sciences. Nature 137, 353–354 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137353c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137353c0