In this issue
p. 0231

Awakening at the Academy
p. 0233 | Balaram, P.

The proposal for a National Science University--More comments
p. 0234 | Raval, U.; Sriram, M. S.; Biswas, B. B.; Dasgupta, C.; Thakur, Ashok Kumar; Pati, Atanu Kumar

The economics of sharing scientific and social information
p. 0238 | Kumar, T. Krishna

On the need to install seismographs in the Himalaya
p. 0239 | Chander, Ramesh

Medical ethics in India
p. 0240 | Wyatt, H. V.

Enhancing indigenous S & T coverage in media
p. 0240 | Jain, N. C.

Science needs a front seat
p. 0241 | Saxena, S. K.

On coconut and coconut oil--where modern science meets traditional wisdom
p. 0242 | Eapen, John T.

Value addition: A threat to Calophyllum species
p. 0243 | Daniels, R. J. Ranjit; Patil, Vishwanath

Comments on 'Fullerenes: C₆₀ from camphor -- A novel approach'
p. 0244 | Seshadri, Ram; Mukhopadhyay, K.; Krishna, K. M.; Sharon, M.

Synthetic malaria vaccine, SPf66
p. 0246 | Chauhan, V. S.

Cell-type and stage-specific gene knockouts in mice: An achievement of a long-sought goal
p. 0249 | Brahmachari, Vani

Non-proliferation and advances in nuclear science
p. 0252 | Iyengar, P. K.

Buy a chair and restrain the increasing CO₂ menace
p. 0254 | Srivastava, Alok K.

University education in science: Academy report
p. 0255

The ascent of molecular cardiology
p. 0267 | Kartha, C. C.; Najeeb, O. M.

Databases in Indian biology: The state of the art and prospects
p. 0273 | Chavan, Vishwas; Chandramohan, D.

The chemistry of a non-natural product: Tröger's base
p. 0279 | Bag, Braja Gopal

Lathyrus sativus: A future pulse crop free of neurotoxin
p. 0288 | Yadav, V. K.; Mehta, S. L.

Virulent shigella codes for a soluble apyrase: Identification, characterization and cloning of the gene
p. 0293 | Bhargava, Tishina; Dattu, Santanu; Ramachandran, Vasanthi; Ramakrishnan, Ramesh; Roy, Raman K.; Sankaran, Krishnan; Subrahmanyam, Yerramilli V. B. K.

Forecasting rain for groundnut farmers--how good is good enough?
p. 0301 | Gadgil, Sulochana; Rao, P. R. Seshagiri; Joshi, N. V.; Sridhar, S.

Landscape ecological analysis of a disturbance gradient using geographic information system in the Madhav National Park, Madhya Pradesh
p. 0309 | Ravan, Shirish A.; Roy, P. S.

Moisture desorption and absorption isotherms for seeds of some cultivars of Triticum aestivum and Triticum durum wheat
p. 0316 | Moharir, A. V.; Prakash, Nam

Observations of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from Japal-Rangapur Observatory
p. 0327 | Vasundhara, R.; Chakraborty, Pavan; Rajamohan, R.; Bhattacharyya, J. C.; Sunder, G. Som; Rao, P. Vivekananda; Swaminathan, R.; Lokhanadham, B.

Burst vortex flow-field on a delta wing--A numerical simulation using Euler equations
p. 0330 | Kumar, Anand

A possible relationship between the wind in the atmospheric boundary layer over north Indian Ocean and the summer monsoon rainfall over India
p. 0333 | Singh, O. P.

Thermodynamic analysis of atmospheric deterioration of portland cement
p. 0335 | Srivastava, Rohit; Mathur, Sanjay Kumar; Shrivastav, Shobhit

Spatial gradients of calcium in the slug of Dictyostelium discoideum
p. 0337 | Azhar, M.; Saran, Shweta; Nanjundiah, Vidyanand

Annual Review of Physiology 1994
p. 0343 | Swarup, Ghanshyam

Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecualr Approach
p. 0343 | Virdi, J. S.

Solar Electricity
p. 0345 | Gupta, C. L.

Prof. John Barnabas (1929-1994), an obituary by Prabhakar Ranjekar and Shama Barnabas
p. 0346 | Ranjekar, Prabhakar; Barnabas, Shama

Sir. John Maddox
p. 0347

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
p. 0348