In this issue
p. 0811

Need to integrate science communication initiatives
p. 0813 | Jain, N. C.

Light and the future
p. 0813 | Srinivasan, C.

Anomalous diamonds
p. 0815

Ediacaran fossils - lichens?
p. 0816

Paucity of preserved old crust
p. 0817

Caution on the use of oxygen electrode-based assay for superoxide dismutase activity in crude preparations
p. 0818 | Kumar, Sanjay; Kundu, Pradip Kumar; Ahuja, Paramvir Singh

Response 
p. 0819 | Bhatnagar, D.

Vision 2005: Earth Sciences
p. 0820

On the black hole trail : A personal journey
p. 0824 | Vishveshwara, C. V.

JGOFS (India): Introduction
p. 0831 | Krishnaswami, S.; Nair, R. R.

Winter cooling in the northern Arabian Sea
p. 0834 | Kumar, S. Prasanna; Prasad, T. G.

Arabian Sea upwelling - A comparison between coastal and open ocean regions
p. 0842 | Muraleedharan, P. M.; Kumar, S. Prasanna

Seasonal variability in oxygen and nutrients in the central and eastern Arabian Sea
p. 0847 | Sousa, S. N. De; Kumar, M. Dileep; Sardessai, S.; Sarma, V. V. S. S.; Shirodkar, P. V.

Seasonal variations in inorganic carbon components in the central and eastern Arabian Sea
p. 0852 | Sarma, V. V. S. S.; Kumar, M. Dileep; George, M. D.; Rajendran, A.

Phytoplankton production and chlorophyll distribution in the eastern and central Arabian Sea in 1994-1995
p. 0857 | Bhattathiri, P. M. A.; Pant, Aditi; Sawant, Surekha; Gauns, M.; Matondkar, S. G. P.; Mohanraju, R.

Lack of seasonal and geographic variation in mesozooplankton biomass in the Arabian Sea and its structure in the mixed layer
p. 0863 | Madhupratap, M.; Gopalakrishnan, T. C.; Haridas, P.; Nair, K. K. C.; Aravindakshan, P. N.; Padmavati, G.; Paul, Shiney

Seasonality and composition of phytoplankton in the Arabian Sea
p. 0869 | Sawant, Surekha; Madhupratap, M.

Studies on the microzooplankton from the central and eastern Arabian Sea
p. 0874 | Gauns, Mangesh; Mohanraju, R.; Madhupratap, M.

Bacterial abundance and production in the central and eastern Arabian Sea
p. 0878 | Ramaiah, N.; Raghukumar, S.; Gauns, Mangesh

Photosyntheticaly available radiation in the central and eastern Arabian Sea
p. 0883 | Suresh, T.; Desa, Elgar; Desai, R. G. P.; Jayaraman, A.; Mehr, P.

²³⁴Th scavenging and particle export fluxes from the upper 100 m of the Arabian Sea
p. 0888 | Sarin, M. M.; Rengarajan, R.; Ramaswamy, V.

Distribution of nitrous oxide and methane in the Arabian Sea
p. 0894 | Lai, Shyam; Patra, Prabir K.; Venkataramani, S.; Sarin, M. M.

Manganese mobilization from the Western Continental margin of India
p. 0900 | Yadav, D. N.

Conformation of ATPMg(II) bound at the specific site on bovine serum albumin: ¹H-nuclear magnetic resonance study
p. 0906 | Maity, Hari Pada; Jarori, Gotam K.

Patterns of large multilamellar vesicular clusters
p. 0915 | Lahiri, T.; Dasgupta, A. K.; Chakrabarti, A.

The plant Banjauri (Vicoa indica) exhibits antifertility activity in adult female bonnet monkeys (Macaca radiata)
p. 0918 | Rao, A. J.; Moudgal, N. R.; Ravindranath, N.

Plantlet regeneration from leaf explants of oil palm seedlings
p. 0922 | Karun, Anita; Sajini, K. K.

Differentiating conductive and resistive inhomogeneities: A new approach in groundwater exploration
p. 0926 | Ballukraya, P. N.

Bimal Kumar Bachhawat, an obituary by Avadhesha Surolia
p. 0932 | Bala-subramanian, A. S.; Bhaduri, A. N.; Datta, Asis; Gupta, C. M.; Basu, Sandip

Advancements in Iron Nutrition Research
p. 0934 | Mohanty, Prasanna

The Archaean and Proterozoic Terrains of Southern India within East Gondwana, Textbook and Field Guide
p. 0934 | Ramakrishnan, M.

Annual Review of Physiology 1996
p. 0935 | Devanandan, M.

Department of Science and Technology
p. 0936