Prof. Alexander Findlay, past president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, accompanied by Mrs. Findlay, is to visit important centres of scientific activity in India and Pakistan. The main purpose of his mission is to study the steps that are being and might be taken in the two Dominions to ensure that due provision will be made, and on an increasing scale, for students to receive proper training in the science of chemistry and for a fuller recognition of the status of the profession. Prof. Findlay hopes to be present at the meeting of the Indian Science Congress and the annual meeting of the Indian Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry at Patna in January 1948, as well as at the subsequent inauguration of the examinations for the associate-ship of the Institute at Bangalore.