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 104 economic size and distribution of holdings of agricultural land in many parts of India. The Hon'ble Mr.. F. Keatinge, dealt with the minute ings in the Bombay Presidency from the Hindu The next paper, Consolidation of Agricultural Holdings in the United Provinces". This paper will be published as .a Bdletin subdivision of hold- which has resulted and Hohamedan laws of inheritance. by Professor Jevons, was on "The of the Economics Deartraent of the Unive.rsity of Allahabad.. Another subject of interest to economists discussed a the Conference was the question of the adulteration of agrictfltural produce exported from' Indi and how to check it. We are glad to notice that a Conference of Econo- mists will be held in Calcutta under he auspices of he Bengal Economic Association on he 3rd of January, 1918. This Conference is the fir.st. of it.s kind, ad this opportunity of interchanging opinions will be useful for those interested in progratn the first the study of economics. The is arranged to cover two days, of which will be devoted to papers on the industrial development of India, and the second to papers dealing with the appreciation of s(h'er and the Indian currency problem, and a few miscellaneous subjects. On the first day no less than three papers, by Professors Stanley Jevons, J. C. Kydd, and E. A. Horne, ill deal with the Labor Question as affecting industrial development in this country, whils Professor Gilbert Slater will deal with "Industrial Development in Souh India', Proissor A. J. Saunders with "The Economic Development of a South Indian Village "; and Professor A. R. Burnett- Hurst with "The Future of the Cotton Industry." It is to be hoped that a similar conference will in tuture be held each year in a different centre,