They published a statement on scientific temper in Seminar, spelling out what the term meant and why it mattered. Why any scientist would hesitate to endorse what amounted to the bare minimum definition of scientific temper was baffling. The extent to which scientific temper was missing, not only among the public but among scientists themselves, was only beginning to reveal itself. The Society for the Promotion of Scientific Temper died before it could even learn to walk. The exhibition would form part of the National Science Exhibition in Delhi, held every year on November 14, Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday.