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IT was anticipated by the founders of the Indian Science Congress that the Congress would stimulate in India an interest in science and in scientific research. At the tune of its formation, the reforms in Indian university education resulting from the recommendations of the Curzon Commission were becoming effective and the universities were beginning to be centres of research. The spirit of scientific inquiry grew during the War period, and if the formation of scientific societies and the issue of scientific journals are to be regarded as criteria of increased interest in science, the hopes of the founders of the Congress have been fulfilled. There are in existence a number of specialist societies, the most recent addition being a Physical Society, and we referred recently (135, 410, 441; March 16, 1935) to the foundation of the National Institute of Sciences of India with its affiliated academies, the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the U.P. Academy of Sciences (Allahabad), and the Indian Academy of Science (Bangalore). In so large a country as India it is natural that there should be more than one academy, but the choice of names for these bodies is not happy and is likely to cause confusion in references to their publications.
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Science and Culture: A new Indian Monthly. Nature 136, 214 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136214b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136214b0