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THE following have been elected ordinary fellows of the National Institute of Sciences of India : Mr. S. Basu, deputy director general (forecasting), Poona, distinguished for his work in weather forecasting ; Dr. U. P. Basu, chief chemist, Bengal Immunity Co., Ltd., Calcutta, distinguished for his work in chemotherapy ; Mr. J. Coates, senior geologist, Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., Digboi, distinguished for his work in geology ; Dr. G. Krishnamurti, assistant director, Department of Chemotherapy, Haffkine Institute, Bombay, distinguished for his work on Indian medicinal plants ; Dr. B. S. Kadam, Central Tobacco Research Station, Guntur, distinguished for his work in genetics and plant breeding ; Prof. D. D. Kosambi, professor of mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, distinguished for his work in path geometry and statistics ; Mr. V. Khanolkar, director of laboratories, Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, distinguished for his work in human pathology ; Dr. D. R. Malhotra, B. B. and C. I. Railway, Ajmer, distinguished for his work in metallurgical chemistry ; Dr. B. Mundkur, mycologist, Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, distinguished for his work in systematic mycology ; Dr. B. Narayana, professor of physiology, Prince of Wales Medical College, Patna, distinguished for his work in physiology ; Dr. B. P. Pal, economic botanist, Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, distinguished for his work in genetics and plant breeding ; Dr. V. G. Panse, statistician, Institute of Plant Industry, Indore, distinguished for his work on the application of statistical methods of plant breeding ; Dr. P. B. Sarkar, senior research chemist, Indian Central Jute Committee, Calcutta, distinguished for his work on the chemistry of jute ; Dr. B. N. Srivastava, Physics Department, University of Allahabad, distinguished for his work in thermodynamics ; Dr. L. C. Verman, director of physical laboratories, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi, distinguished for his work in applied physics.
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National Institute of Sciences of India : Elections. Nature 159, 123 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159123a0
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