In this issue
p. 0557

Editorial
p. 0559 | Venkatachala, B. S.; Subramanian, C. V.; Ramasheshan, S.

Speech delivered by Birbal Sahni at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the Institute of Palaeobotany, 3 April 1949
p. 0560

Speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the Institute of palaeobotany, 3 April 1949
p. 0562

Birbal Sahni - the man and his message
p. 0564 | Subramanian, C. V.

Reminiscences
p. 0570 | Sahni, Ashok; Gupta, Shakti; Rao, A. R.; Sadasivan, T. S; Agarwala, S. C.; Lakhanpal, R. N.; Pant, D. D.; Johri, B. M.; Bhargava, K. S.; Saksena, S. D.

Birbal Sahni Insititute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow - the vision that came true
p. 0582 | Venkatachala, B. S.

Palaeobotany in India - The post-Sahni era in retrospect
p. 0586 | Venkatachala, B. S.

Revolutions in the plant world - Presidential address by Birbal Sahni at the annual meeting of the national Academy of Sciences, 1938 [Reprinted from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India]
p. 0594

The Deccan Traps: an episode of the Teritiary era- General Presidential address by Birbal Sahni, 27th Indian Science Congress, 1940
p. 0601

On a Palaeozole tree-fern Grammatopteris baidaufi (Beck. ), Hirmer, a link between the Zygopteridae and Osmundaceae -Birbal Sahni [Reproduced from Annals of Botany, 1932] for colour pages
p. 0609

The importance of anatomy and whole plant reconstruction in palaeobotany
p. 0627 | Dilcher, D. L.

Mesozole gymnosperms and period classifications
p. 0630 | Hughes, Normal F.

A plea for the creation of a separate division for the study of extant plants at the Birbal Sahni Institute of palaeobotany
p. 0634 | Puri, V.

Development of cosmogenic nuclear methods for the study of soil erosion and formation rates
p. 0636 | Lal, D.; Barg, E.; Pavich, M.

An excursion into the past - 'the Deccan volcanic episode'
p. 0641 | Radhakrishna, B. P.

Early Permian Palaeogeography of the Perigondwana in the Indian segment
p. 0648 | Kapoor, Hari M.; Maheshwari, Hari K.

The Deccan traps
p. 0654 | Sahni, Ashok

An enigmatic plant from the lower Cretaceous Oguchi Formation, Tetori super group, Inner Zone of Japan
p. 0657 | Kimura, Tatsuaki

Anatomy and ecology of the tree fern Hemitelia brunoniana (Wall,) clarks, with remarks on the phylogeny of Cyatheaceae
p. 0659 | Mehra, P. N.

Quarternary tectonic history of northwest Himalaya
p. 0664 | Valdiya, K. S.

A major change at ca. 3500 years BP in the vegetation of the western ghats in North Kanara, Karnataka
p. 0669 | Caratini, C.; Fontugne, M.; Pascal, J. P.; Tissot, C.; Bentaleb, I.

Palynological studies and 14C dating of a gravity core from the sea and west of Narcondam Island in the andaman Sea
p. 0673 | Venkatachala, B. S.; Rajagopalan, G.; Kar, R. K.; Rajanikanth, A.

Ultrastructural studies in fossil plant cuticle
p. 0676 | Archagnelsky, Sergio

Giant Ubish bodies and other 'throwaway sporopollenin' as source of Information
p. 0678 | Traverse, Alfred

Gondwana Palaeozoic and Mesozoic palynology in India
p. 0682 | Tiwari, R. S.

Biopetrology: its implication and application
p. 0687 | Misra, B. K.; Prakash, Anand

Tertiary palynology in India - a perspective
p. 0692 | Singh, H. P.

Fossil phytoplankton: importance in palaeocceanography
p. 0697 | Jain, K. P.