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Address of the President of the Royal Society: SiRHENRY DALE
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THE council's report, covering the period of a yearending
September 30, makes mention of the scientificmission to Australia
now completed by our ForeignSecretary,. Sir Henry Tizard, whom we
are glad towelcome on his return. The report does not
extend,however, to the later departure for India of our secre-tary,
Professor A. V. Hill. The Government ofIndia, through the Secretary
of State, asked theRoyal Society to depute a distinguished
scientist tovisit India for consultation on scientific matters,
andin particular to advise on scientific and industrialresearch in
relation to measures of post-war recon-struction and on the
coordination of such plans inIndia with corresponding activities
here and else-where. We felt that our proper response to suchan
invitation was to let' India have a man of thehighest qualification
from our own fellowship; and Ifeel confident that the fellows will
approve of our
1 Delivered at the 281st anniversary meeting, November30,
1943.
action in releasing for the necessary period our
seniorsecretary, who is also one of our research professors,to
enable him to accept this important mission. I askyou, further, to
send from this meeting a message toProfessor Hill of good wishes
for the full success ofhis undertaking and of hope that one of its
resultswill be to strengthen the bonds of understanding andtrue
comradeship between our Indian colleagues andthe men of science of
this country. In that connectionI ought further to report to you a
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whichI have not found any precedent in our records. Itwas brought
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obli-gation in our charter book and to be admitted accord-ing to
the statute. It seems certain that the war willcreate still further
difficulty and delay for the attend-ance here of the other four,
and I have accordingly
