Abstract
UNDER the presidency of Mr. A. Howard, Director of the Institute of Plant Industry, Indore, and Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India, the thirteenth annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress was held at Bombay on January 4–9. In addition to sectional meetings, joint discussions were held on recent scientific work directed to the improvement of cotton-growing (Sections of Agriculture, Mathematics and Physics, Zoology and Botany) and on the structure of the atom and quantum theory (Sections of Mathematics and Physics and Chemistry). Public lectures on droughts and famines, by Dr. H. H. Mann, on life at higher altitudes in Western Tibet, by Prof. Shiv Ram Kashyap, and on modern applications of X-rays, by Prof. H. Parameshwaran, were arranged, as well as visits to places of scientific interest in the neighbourhood of Bombay.
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