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Delhi : Sir Girja Sunkar Bagpai ; the Hon. Sir Shah Sulaiman ; 

 Mr. Lala Sri Ram. 



Dehra Dun : Mr. L. Mason, C.I.E., Inspector-General of Forests ; 

 Col. C. M. Thompson, Director of the Geodetic Branch, Survey of India. 



Benares : Pundit M. M. Malaviya, Vice-Chancellor of the Benares Hindu 

 University ; Raja Juala Prasad, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University. 



The Silver Jubilee Session of the Indian Science Congress Association 

 was opened by H.E. the Viceroy of India (the Marquess of Linlithgow), 

 in the University College of Science, Calcutta, on January 3, 1938. 

 Sir James Jeans, F.R.S., after his own short prefatory address, com- 

 municated to the Congress the presidential address which had been 

 prepared by Lord Rutherford. The reception room, offices, and 

 section meeting rooms of the Congress were in the Presidency College, 

 the University Buildings, the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public 

 Health, and the School of Tropical Medicine. The transactions of the 

 Congress were continued daily until January 9, with the exception of 

 January 6, a day devoted to excursions. The transactions are fully 

 reported by the Indian Science Congress Association, but it may be 

 mentioned here that occasion was taken during the week to hold also 

 the annual meetings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, the 

 Indian Chemical Society, the Indian Physical Society, the Indian Section 

 of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland, the Indian 

 Botanical Society, the Society of Biological Chemists of India, the Indian 

 Psychological Association, the Indian Society of Soil Science, the 

 Physiological Society of India, and the Indian Anthropological Institute. 



Diplomas of honorary Silver Jubilee membership were presented to 

 Sir James Jeans, F.R.S., Dr. F. W. Aston, F.R.S., Prof. L. F. de 

 Beaufort, Prof. A. H. R. Buller, F.R.S., Prof. Sir Arthur Eddington, 

 F.R.S., Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., Prof. C. G. Jung, and Prof. 

 J. L. Simonssn, F.R.S., of the delegation, and also to Sir Venkata 

 Raman, F.R.S., Sir PrafuUa Ray, Prof. M. N. Saha, F.R.S., and 

 Sir M. Visbesbaraya. 



Public lectures were given by Sir James Jeans, F.R.S., and other 

 members of the delegation, including Dr. F. W. Aston, F.R.S., Prof. 

 Ernest Barker (two), Prof. F. A. E. Crew, Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., 

 Prof. Sir Arthur Eddington, F.R.S., Prof. H. J. Fleure, F.R.S., and 

 Dr. J. A. Venn. Among other lectures given by the delegates to various 

 bodies in Calcutta were the following. The Indian Association for the 

 Cultivation of Science conferred upon Sir James Jeans, F.R.S., and 

 Dr. F. W. Aston, F.R.S., the Joy Kissen Mookerjee Medal for 1937 and 

 1938 respectively, and each delivered an address to this Association on 

 the occasion of the award of the medals. The same Association heard 

 three lectures by Prof. J. E. Lennard-Jones, F.R.S., as Coochbehar 

 Professor, and three by Sir Arthur Hill, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., as Ripon 

 Professor ; while Dr. A. E. H. Tutton, F.R.S., devoted much time to 

 discussion in the laboratory of the Association. Sir Henry Tizard, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., and Prof. J. L. Simonsen, F.R.S., addressed the Institute 

 of Chemists ; Sir Arthur Eddington, F.R.S., the Indian Physical Society 

 and also the Rotary Club ; Prof. F. A. E. Crew the local branch of the 

 Indian Medical Association. The Institution of Engineers received 



