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A VALUABLE survey of the work of the universities of India was given by Dewan Bahadur S. E. Runganadhan in a lecture before the India and Burma Section of the Royal Society of Arts on April 10 (J. Roy. Soc. Arts, Sept. 18). The paper gives a concise survey of the facilities for scientific research which have been developed in the last twenty-five years ; a list of theses which have been accepted by Indian universities for the award of research degrees in recent years, which is appended, gives some idea of the standard of research work carried out in these universities. The subjects selected for special study under chemistry have a bearing on important economic plants, like jute, and Indian medical plants, and research on zoology includes valuable studies on parasites. The papers on botany indicate that there is considerable scope for the extension of research to more practical aspects of the plant life of India.
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Universities of India. Nature 150, 426–427 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150426d0
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