<Li> To secure and manage funds and endowments for the promotion of Science including the rights of disposing of or selling all or any portion of the properties of the Association; </Li> <Li> To do and perform any or all other acts, matters and things as are conductive to, or incidental to, or necessary for, the above objects . </Li> <P> The first meeting of the congress was held from 15--17 January 1914 at the premises of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta . Honorable justice Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta presided over the Congress . One hundred and five scientists from different parts of India and abroad attended it . Altogether 35 papers under 6 different sections, namely Botany, Chemistry, Ethnography, Geology, Physics and Zoology were presented . </P> <P> The Silver Jubilee Session of the Science Congress was held at Calcutta in 1938 under the presidency of Lord Rutherford of Nelson but due to his sudden death, Sir James Hopwood Jeans took the chair . It was at this Jubilee Session that the participation of foreign scientists in session of the Indian Science Congress was first initiated . </P>

President of first indian science congress meeting held in kolkata