PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIAN SCIENCE 
CONGRESS. 
The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Indian Science Congress 
was held in Bombay, from January 13th to 18th instant. After 
the Patron, His Excellency Sir George Lloyd, G.C.I.E., D.S.O 
Governor of Bombay, had welcomed the visitors in a short 
speech, the President Lt.-Colonel Sir Leonard Rogers, M.D., 
F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., F.R.S., F.AS.B., IM.S., delivered his 
address. 
Presidential Address. 
When I received the flattering invitation to preside over 
the Indian Science Congress at Bombay, I felt that I was un- 
fitted for the position, because medical science had not hitherto 
been included within the scope of the meetings; but on learn- 
ing that it was desired to include a section on medical research 
this year, I was very glad to accept the honourable and respon- 
some practical life-saving advances in tropical medicine, I feel 
trolling amoebic dysentery and liver abscess; the prepara- 
