Abstract
ONE of the major problems of India is that of the rivers, and it was with the object of inviting the attention of the central and provincial Governments to the urgency of making investigations on scientific lines that a symposium was organized by the National Institute of Sciences of India a little more than a year ago. The several papers presented have now been published (Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 4, No. 4) and show the profound interest that is being taken in the subject by a number of well-qualified workers. The presidential address by Prof. M. N. Saha pointed out the importance of the rivers to the agricultural life and as a means of the industrialization of India, and dealt with their influence on the level of cities on their banks, instancing the destruction of many ancientcities and the increasing difficulty now being experienced in the drainage of Calcutta by reason of this action (see also NATURE, 141, 797; 1938).
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