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A NEW quarterly Journal, ISI Bulletin, has been issued by Indians standards Institution, P Block, Raisina Roadjfbw Delhi. The price is 2s., and the first number oimtains thirty-six pages. The Indian Standards Institution was founded in 1947, primarily as an industrial organisation, but with Government support. The president is Dr. S. P. Mookerjee, Minwter for Industry and Supply, and its director, Dr. Tal C. Verman. It has set up four executive committees for agricultural products, documentation, quality control and industrial statistics, and weights and measures, together with engineering, textile and chemical division councils, sponsoring a total of 118 committees and sub-committees. Draft standards on textile shrinkage tests and fireclay refractories have already been published. Apart from much detailed information the Bulletin contains the president's address to the general council and three very interesting general articles. The first of these, on the "Standard Atmosphere for Testing", compares average atmospheric conditions in India with those in other parts of the world and makes recommendations, which the Indian delegation was successful in getting accepted by the International Standards Organisation, for alternative 'standard atmospheres' to be adopted for use in industrial testing laboratories in tropical and temperate climates respectively. The second paper, on "Quality Control", is mainly a record of various conferences and papers relating to this subject, largely directed to its applications to the textile industry. The last paper deals with "Weights and Measures". It includes a brief summary of the past and present position in India, and puts forward a proposal for the adoption of the metric system with Indian names for the units, and a series of Indian prefixes and affixes to denote the successive powers (multiples and sub-multiples respectively) of 10. The Bulletin gives an impression of vitality which augurs well for the future success of the new organisation.
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ISI Bulletin. Nature 163, 672 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163672b0
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