THE EGYPTIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Abstract

THE number of scientific workers in Egypt has increased considerably since the foundation of the Faculty of Science of the Fouad I University at Cairo in 1925. This has been accompanied by the development of a number of societies dealing with various branches of science, among which special mention may be made of the Société Entomologique d'Égypte, with its fine series of Bulletins and Mémoires dating from 1907. There has arisen also a demand for some institution where scientific specialists could meet and exchange ideas, for the famous Institut d'Égypte, founded by Napoleon, covers too wide a range of interests to meet these requirements. Accordingly, a group of nine Egyptians representing different branches of science met together in 1944 and founded an Egyptian Academy of Sciences, with Prof. Mohamed Khalil Bey as its secretary. The main objects of the new Academy are to stimulate a wider interest in science in general, and lead to more cooperation between men of science and a better coordination of their efforts.