In this issue
p. 1208

Obituaries and Biographies
p. 1209 | Balaram, P.

Nautical jugs or not?
p. 1211 | Cathcart, Richard B.

Those who have shall get
p. 1211 | Srinivasan, V.

Open source agricultural biotechnology
p. 1212 | Thomas, Zakir

Bacteria too can get old
p. 1213 | Shouche, Yogesh S.

Phytoplasmal phyllody in Ladakh
p. 1214 | Mathew, Deepu; Ahmed, Zakwan

Occurrence of tricarpy in Ceropegia attenuata Hook. (Asclepiadaceae)
p. 1215 | Patil, C. R.; Rahangdale, S. R.; Rahangdale, S. S.; Patil, S. C.

Collaborations to improve biotech industry in India
p. 1216 | Moza, Monika Koul

Health, occupation and environment in the unorganized sector
p. 1217 | Kesavachandran, C.; Rastogi, S. K.

National Symposium in Chemistry
p. 1218 | Walawalkar, Mrinalini G.

World Congress on Clinical Nutrition
p. 1219 | Singh, Krishna P.; Singh, Mandavi; Goyal, Madhu

Forsteronia refracta holds the key to breast cancer treatment
p. 1222 | Moza, Monika Koul

Microbial remains from the Chambaghat Formation, Krol Group, Himachal Lesser Himalaya, India and their significance
p. 1223 | Shukla, Manoj; Babu, Rupendra; Mathur, V. K.; Srivastava, D. K.

Pseudovivipary in two rupestrian endemic species (Leiothrix spiralis and Leiothrix vivipara)
p. 1225 | Coelho, Flávia Freitas; Neves, Ana Carolina O; Capelo, Christina; Figueira, José Eugênio C.

Discovery of micro-diamonds in beach placers of the east coast, Andhra Pradesh, India
p. 1227 | Subrahmanyam, A. V.; Kumar, V. Anil; Desapati, T.; Deshmukh, R. D.; Viswanathan, G.

Identification of a new source of resistance in wild rice, Oryza rufipogon to bacterial blight of rice caused by Indian strains of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
p. 1229 | Srinivasan, Bharathkumar; Gnanamanickam, Samuel S.

Inhibition of growth of urinary type calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate crystals by tartaric acid and tamarind
p. 1232 | Joseph, K. C.; Parekh, Bharat B.; Joshi, M. J.

Status and distribution of breeding cattle egret and little egret in Amroha using density method
p. 1239 | Kaul, Rahul; Hussain, Mohd Shah; Imam, Ekwal; Shah, Junid N.; Abbasi, Faiza; Shawl, Tahir A.; Hilaluddin

Hypoglycaemic and antidiabetic effect of aqueous extract of leaves of Annona squamosa (L. ) in experimental animal
p. 1244 | Gupta, Rajesh Kumar; Kesari, Achyut Narayan; Watal, Geeta; Murthy, P. S.; Chandra, Ramesh; Maithal, Kapil; Tandon, Vibha

Litter production in tropical dry evergreen forests of south India in relation to season, plant life-forms and physiognomic groups
p. 1255 | Pragasan, L. Arul; Parthasarathy, N.

Forest fragmentation impacts on phytodiversity - An analysis using remote sensing and GIS
p. 1264 | Goparaju, Laxmi; Tripathi, Anshuman; Jha, C. S.

Anomalous behaviour of cosmic ray diurnal anisotropy during descending phase of the solar cycle-22
p. 1275 | Tiwari, C. M.; Tiwari, D. P.; Shrivastava, Pankaj K.

Observations on extreme meteorological and oceanographic parameters in Indian seas
p. 1279 | Rajesh, G.; Joseph, K. Jossia; Harikrishnan, M.; Premkumar, K.

Weather prediction using nearest-neighbour model
p. 1283 | Singh, Dan; Ganju, Ashwagosha; Singh, Amreek

Synthetic accelerograms for two Himalayan earthquakes using convolution
p. 1289 | Singh, V. N.; Mittal, Abha

The tsunami of the great Sumatra earthquake of M 9. 0 on 26 December 2004 - Impact on the east coast of India
p. 1297 | Chadha, R. K.; Latha, G.; Yeh, Harry; Peterson, Curt; Katada, Toshitama

Analysis of runoff pattern for all major basins of India derived using remote sensing data
p. 1301 | Zade, Mohan; Ray, S. S.; Dutta, S.; Panigrahy, S.

Role of microbial community in stalactite formation, Sahastradhara caves, Dehradun, India
p. 1305 | Baskar, Sushmitha; Baskar, R.; Mauclaire, L.; Mckenzie, J. A.

In vitro adventitive embryony in Citrus: A technique for Citrus germplasm exchange
p. 1309 | Khawale, Ramkrishna N.; Singh, Sanjay K.

Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.311
p. 1311 | Prakash, M. G.; Gurumurthi, K.

Brachyuran crab diversity in natural (Pitchavaram) and artificially developed man­groves (Vellar estuary)
p. 1316 | Khan, S. Ajmal; Raffi, S. M.; Lyla, P. S.

Handbook of Inclusive Education for Educators, Administrators and Planners-Within Walls, Without Boundaries by Madhumitha Puri and George Abraham (eds)
p. 1325 | Latha, K.

The Big Fish Bang by H. I. Browman and A. B. Skiftesvik
p. 1325 | Pandian, T. J.

Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting by Alan T. Bull (ed. )
p. 1326 | Virdi, J. S.

Random Harvest, Biographical Sketches, Memoir 60 by B. P. Radhakrishna
p. 1328 | Rao, K. R.

Ardhendu Sekhar Mukherjee (1935-2005)
p. 1331 | Lakhotia, Subhash C.

CENTRE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL RESEARCH
p. 1333

REFRESHER COURSE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
p. 1334

Systems Architects and ASIC Engineers
p. 1335

Research on Algorithms and Architectures for Computational Biochemistry
p. 1336

M. S. SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION
p. 1337

AWARD OF DBT-JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1338

Computational Chemistry and Biology Opportunities at D. E. Shaw Research and Development
p. 1339

REFRESHER COURSE ON PROBABILITY, STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS
p. 1340

Call for proposal under Instrumentation Development Programme (IDP)
p. 1341

SERC Summer School in Solid State and Materials Chemistry
p. 1342

Shriram Institute for Industrial Research-Senior Research Fellow (on Project)
p. 1342

Department of Botany
p. 1343

Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association
p. 1343

Gulbarga University
p. 1344

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1344

Molecular Connections-Opportunity for Scientists
p. 1345

THIRD WORLD ORGANISATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE (TWOWS)
p. 1346

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
p. 1346

VISITING RESEARCH SCIENTIST POSITION FOR SIMULATION AND MODELLING
p. 1347

RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
p. 1347

University of Madras
p. 1348

Madurai Kamaraj University
p. 1348

POORNAPRAJNA INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
p. 1348