Twenty-third Session of the Indian Science Congress

Abstract

THE twenty-third session of the Indian Science i Congress was held at Indore, Central India, on January 2-8, 1936. More than 350 delegates from all over India met together under the presidency of Sir U. N. Brahmachari. The session was opened by H. H. the Maharajah of Indore, who, in inaugurating the meeting, said that the greatest problem of India is her poverty. It is the problem of increasing the yield of the soil and using India's vast mineral resources, which demands the most strenuous efforts of the scientific workers of India. He referred to the efforts that are being made at Indore, at the Institute of Plant Industry, to improve the quality of the crops. The Maharajah deplored the fact that while men of goodwill are straining every nerve of science in the cause of humanity, others are degrading the great achievements of that same science to the destruction of their fellow men. He fears that as the nineteenth century in Europe lost God in the laboratory, so they may lose all that is good in their ancient heritage owing to over-enthusiasm for the new.