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IN celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Sir William Jones, its founder and first president, in January 1946, the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal is arranging a Conference on Indology and Oriental Culture in the first week of January, and terminating with a banquet on the Foundation Day, January 15. Representatives of learned societies in India, China, U.S.S.R., Iran, Turkey, Great Britain and the United States, as well as individual leaders and patrons of learning, have been invited to participate in the celebrations. A booklet issued by the Society outlines the programme of special publications which has been undertaken in connexion with the bicentenary and includes the address given to the Society by Dr. L. L. Fermor on its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in January 1934, together with Sir John Anderson's speech on the same occasion, and a list of exhibits at the conversazione. The special publications now projected include a new series of monographs to which Dr. S. K. Mitra is contributing one on the upper atmosphere; a complete author- and subject-index of all the important articles in the Asiatic Researches and the Journal and Proceedings of the Society up to the end of 1945; and a commemoration volume to which Dr. S. L. Hora, Dr. K. P. Brocias and Dr. K. N. Bagchi have been invited to contribute an article on the progress of scientific studies in India.
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Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Nature 156, 687 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156687b0
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