In this issue
p. 0095

Creativity in science
p. 0097 | Sharma, Om P.

Use of lint as soil conditioner
p. 0098 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

Square-grid patterns in a twist boundary phase
p. 0098 | Nair, Geetha G.

Square-grid patterns in a twist boundary phase(Response)
p. 0098 | Madhusudana, N. V.

Facilitation centre for industrial plasma technologist set up at IPR
p. 0099

Malaria- Hundred years after the great discovery
p. 0100 | Chauhan, V. S.; Sharma, V. P.

Academy's annual Meeting
p. 0103 | Arunachalam, Subbiah

1997 Nobel Prize for Physics:Laser cooling and trapping of atoms
p. 0106 | Srinivasan, R.

The population and conservation status of Asian elephants in the Periyar Toger Reserve, Southern India
p. 0110 | Ramakrishnan, Uma; Santosh, J. A.; Sukumar, R.

Typical liptinitic bodies from Neyveli Lignite deposits, India
p. 0113 | Singh, Alpana; Misra, Basant K.

Challenges in neuroscience
p. 0115 | Ito, Masao

Pollinator management: An eco-friendly green-revolution eludes India
p. 0121 | Savoor, R. R.

Fluorescence in situ hybridization in genome, chromosome and gene identification in plants
p. 0126 | Lanania, U. C.

Detailed study of Samta, one of the arsenic-affected villages of jessore District, Bangladesh
p. 0134 | Biswas, Bhajan K.; Dhar, Ratan K.; Samanta, Gautam; Mandal, Badal K.; Chakraborti, Dipankar; Paruk, Imtiaz; Islam, Kazl Saiful; Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman Chowdhury Ashraful; Roy, Shibtosh

Optoelectronic device, a useful tool ito record surfacing behaviour in air-breathing fishes
p. 0146 | Pati, Atanu Kumar; Gupta, Seema; Maheshwari, Renu

shape change and hypotunic shock response measurement to assess functional efficacy of platelets
p. 0150 | Krishnan, Lissy K.

Potential removal of particulate matter and the nitrogen through roots of water hyacinth in a tropical natural wetland
p. 0154 | Billore, S. K.; Bharadia, Ritu; Kumar, Anil

Medicinal Plant cultivation and biosphere reserve management : a case study from the Nanda Devi biosphere Reserve, Himalaya
p. 0157 | Maikhuri, R. K.; Nautiyal, S.; Rao, K. S.; Saxena, K. G.

Change in wheat productivity with time in long-term experiment
p. 0163 | Vaishnav, P. R.; Bhatt, H. M.; Dixit, S. K.

Characteristics of the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake and their hearing on its mechanism
p. 0168 | Rajendran, Kusala; Rajendran, C. P.

The theory of Superconductivity
p. 0175 | Shastry, Sriram

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 1997
p. 0176 | Visweswariah, Sandhya S.

Putcha Venkateswarlu- an obituary
p. 0178 | Narasimhan, N. A.

Ministry of Health and F.W., Department of Health, Nirman Bhawan
p. 0179