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FURTHER details of the Indian Institute of A Sciences, to which brief reference was made in NATURE of January 12 (p. 59), are now available. Elsewhere in this issue (p. 441) we print an article summarising the circumstances of its inception and recording the proceedings of the inaugural meeting. The desirability of having in India a national academy has long been felt, and this found expression a year ago in the appointment by the Indian Science Congress of a strong committee to elaborate a scheme for the establishment of an All-India Academy. It was feared by many that the work of this committee might have been jeopardised by the registration last June of an ‘Indian Academy of Science’ by Sir C. V. Raman in Bangalore. There were thus three bodies of ‘academy’ standing in India, the premier society—the Asiatic Society of Bengal—the United Provinces Academy of Science, and the new Indian Academy of Science. Fortunately, the common sense which has always been such a marked feature in the organisation of the Indian Science Congress, has enabled its committee to surmount all apparent difficulties and to secure the adherence of the officials of these three societies to the new Institute.
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The National Institute of Sciences of India. Nature 135, 410–411 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135410a0
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