Journal of the Gujarat Research Society April 1944

374 JOURNAL OF THE GUJARAT RESEARCH SOCIETY the other hand the practice and precedents created by the business magnates of Bombay who have liberally contributed to the educational needs only of the City but the province of Bombay and would justify an attitude of mind that private munificence should contribute liberally towards the expanding educational needs of the province of Gujarat. [...] For creating an atmosphere of nationwide importance for the successful building up of a wise constitution of a University worthy of the great name and traditions of Gujarat the following suggestions are made :— 1. A Gujarat University Association should be formed as a Society to be registered and incorporated for the purpose of seeing that all the work prelminary to the formation of a Gujarat [...] It is true that the public is mainly concerned with the restoration to health when ill ; but this object is not achieed by the study and application of methods of treatment without at the same time having a good background of the knowledge of the mechanism of the body in health and disease and of the knowledge of hereditary and enviromental factors as they affect the body. [...] It has been the outcome of the knowledge of the basic sciences of physics chemistry biology and even mathematics to the structure and functions of the human body and of a more and more concentrated study of the processes of health and early departures therefrom. [...] miles exclusive of the Run which is a few miles more than that of Baroda and is open to the sea on the west and connected with it by a gulf on the south and the east.84 JOURNAL OF THE GUJARAT RESEARCH SOCIETY of the figures of the population of the Northern Division and of the areas coprised in the Western India States Agency and the Gujarat States Agency.