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Fleure, F.R.S. ; and Mr. H. M. Hallsworth, C.B.E., had a discussion 

 with advanced students in the Department of Economics in the Univer- 

 sity. Prof. Winifred Cullis, C.B.E., addressed Bombay University 

 Women at the Cama Hospital. It may be stated here, and taken as apply- 

 ing at all points throughout India where general or public lectures were 

 given by delegates, that the numbers and enthusiasm of the audiences 

 were such as to gratify and even astonish the visitors. Broadcasts were 

 given from the Bombay station of All-India Radio by Prof. Winifred 

 Cullis, C.B.E., and Prof. F. A. E. Crew. 



The party left Bombay in the afternoon of December 18, in the special 

 train which was to be their headquarters during the tour through northern 

 India until January 2, and again for those of them who joined the southern 

 tour after the Congress in Calcutta. The train consisted of the Punjab 

 Limited rolling-stock of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and for the 

 outward tour included seven corridor coaches with compartments affording 

 very comfortable living and sleeping accommodation for two persons each, 

 two dining cars, a brake, a servants' car, and a commissariat car. The 

 travel arrangements were made by the Indian Science Congress Associa- 

 tion in collaboration with the railway companies concerned and with 

 Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son as agents. Mr. W. D. West, one of the 

 General Secretaries of the Indian Association, had principally dealt with 

 the details of organisation of the tours in advance, and Prof. J. N. 

 Mukherjee, the other General Secretary, accompanied the tour preceding 

 the Congress, and dealt with all the arrangements therefor excepting 

 those at Agra and Dehra Dun and those of the geologists' visit to 

 Dhanbad, etc. 



In the morning of December 19 the party reached Hyderabad, the capital 

 of the Deccan State of that name, and during their sojourn within its 

 frontiers they were guests of the State in respect not only of entertainment, 

 but also of accommodation and travel. They visited the site of the Osmania 

 University, which was established in 191 8, and were shown the buildings 

 and departments already erected and in operation. The medical college 

 and Osmania hospital, the museum, the Nizamiah Observatory, and the 

 Cottage Industries Institute were seen by individual members. Sir James 

 Jeans, F.R.S. , addressed the University staff and students, and various 

 members of the party were enabled to meet professors and students in the 

 departments in which they were specially interested, and to discuss their 

 work. The whole party was entertained to lunch in the University hostel. 

 Afterwards Golconda, an immense hill-fort and the capital of the Kutb 

 Shahi Kingdom of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was visited, 

 and also tombs of the kings of this dynasty. Sir Arthur Eddington, 

 F.R.S., gave a lecture in the Town Hall, and a banquet was held in the 

 Address Hall of the University. The party left at night for Aurangabad 

 in a narrow-gauge train provided by the State, and next day (December 20) 

 visited the rock-hewn temples at Ellora, which range in dates from the 

 third to the ninth century a.d., and in which the Buddhist, Brahmanic, 

 and Jain religions are represented. The hill-fortress of Daulatabad, 

 founded probably in the twelfth century, and other historic sites were also 

 seen. On December 21 the party was taken by road to Ajanta, the site 

 of another great series of rock-temples, where the architecture, sculpture, 



