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THE report has just been published of the Proceedings of the third meeting of the Animal Husbandry Wing of the Board of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in India (Simla: Gov. India Press, 1940). The meeting was held at New Delhi during February 20–23, 1939, and the variety of the nineteen topics discussed indicates the complexity of India's problems and the research activities which have been stimulated through the influence of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. Reference to the Proceedings and the discussions recorded there show how valuable to the investigators and agriculturists concerned must be the pooling of information from all the corners of the land which takes place at such meetings and helps to determine the lines upon which particular investigations must be conducted. But we must add that the form in which the Proceedings are published leaves much to be desired: there is no index to the subjects or authors mentioned in these 307 pages, and even the list of topics has no page references to guide the inquirer; so that, for example, we find the discussion on the warble-fly on p. 88, and the introductory remarks on which the discussion was based on p. 155, with a title which, as printed, is unintelligible.
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Animal Husbandry in India. Nature 146, 457 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146457b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146457b0