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WE have received from a correspondent in India a letter which states that the present director of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, Sir Alfred Bourne, is to be succeeded by an administrator with no scientific experience. Such an appointment would be greatly deprecated by scientific workers, and we trust it is not too late to prevent it. In our view the head of such an institution should be a man who combines scientific experience with administrative ability; and if this principle is deliberately ignored in the case of the directorship of the leading scientific institution in India, the strongest protest should be made to the authorities responsible for the appointment.
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Notes. Nature 106, 26–29 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106026a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106026a0
