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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1937-38 



Annual Report would receive the Quarterly. The price of 3^. 6d. per 

 part is recommended for non-subscribers. 



The Quarterly should be marketed by arrangement with a publishing 

 firm. 



The division into quarterly parts would in itself cost little more than the 

 annual volume, even allowing for improvement of the format. Additional 

 matter for publication, however, would be expected from the new Division 

 and from more effective reporting of the work of the Sections. The 

 establishment of the new Division would increase clerical work in the 

 office. On these considerations it has been estimated that the proposals 

 here made might involve the Association in an additional annual ex- 

 penditure of £400-^500 in a few years' time ; and in this event a 

 temporary draft upon capital would be necessary. 



It is hoped, however, that such additional expenditure would be offset 

 by increased sales of the Quarterly and reports of Presidential Addresses, 

 as against those of the Annual Volume and the present Advancement of 

 Science, and also by receipts from advertisements in the Quarterly. More- 

 over, the establishment of the new Division and the publication of a 

 Quarterly are both measures which should help to increase the membership 

 of the Association. 



THE SCIENTIFIC DELEGATION IN INDIA, 1937-38. 



At the Norwich Meeting of the British Association in 1935, the General 

 Committee of the British Association received Professor J. N. Mukherjee, 

 one of the General Secretaries of the Indian Science Congress Association, 

 who announced that that body would celebrate its jubilee at a meeting in 

 Calcutta in the winter of 1937-38. The Indian Association was founded in 

 1912-13, and the first meeting took place at Calcutta in the following year. 

 Professor Mukherjee, with Professor S. P. Agharkar, had been appointed 

 to negotiate with the British Association for the purpose of securing the 

 organisation of a representative scientific delegation to participate in the 

 jubilee meeting. The proposal was new in the sense that the British 

 Association had never before received a definite invitation to co-operate in 

 this manner with a kindred association overseas — that is to say apart from, 

 and in addition to, its own overseas meetings. The General Committee 

 recognised the far-reaching importance of the proposal, and directed the 

 Council to carry on negotiations with the Indian Science Congress Associa- 

 tion. This was done, and the Council were able to report in the following 

 year that the formal invitation of the Indian Association had been received 

 and accepted. The Calcutta Congress was appointed to be held from 

 January 3 to 9, 1938. 



The Indian Association appointed Professor the Rt. Hon. Lord 

 Rutherford, O.M., F.R.S., to be its President for the jubilee year. He 

 died on October 19, 1937 ; he had intended to leave England for India 

 on November 26. His loss, deplored by the whole scientific world, was 

 very specially grievous to the delegation and to the Congress. The 

 Indian Association, through the British Association, invited Sir James 



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