摘要
The Government of India played host to the 22nd International Geological Congress between 14 and 22 December 1964 in New Delhi,India.This was the first meeting of the IGC on Asian soil and possibly the largest scientific conclave ever to take place in India up to that time.The honour might have come in 1952,as Dr D.N.Wadia extended an invitation to hold a meeting in India at the 18th Congress in London in 1948,but there was already an invitation from France to hold one in Algiers in 1952 and the intended invitation from India did not arrive.An invitation from Mexico saved the situation and at the Mexican IGC,attended by Dr M.S.Krishnan,V.P.Sondhi,and Professor C.Mahadevan(Andhra University,Waltair),the invitation came late after the Council had voted for Denmark;and thus the 21st IGC was held in Copenhagen in 1960.It was in a way a natural fulfilment when ultimately the 22nd IGC was held in New Delhi.The Geological Survey of India,the third oldest and the largest in the world at that time,then had more than a thousand personnel on its staff.
