In this Issue
p. 0926

Where has chemistry gone?
p. 0927 | Balaram, P.

Wastage of resources and scientific manpower in India
p. 0929 | Virk, H. S.

Chick embryo 'twins'
p. 0929 | Patwardhan, Vidya; Ghaskadbi, Surendra

On dyslexia and Indian scripts
p. 0931 | Balasubrahmanyam, S. N.

Shall we learn a few lessons from the father of American science on the wisdom of patenting knowledge?
p. 0931 | Bhattacharjee, S. K.

Gem cutting - No child's play
p. 0932 | Karanth, R. V.

Srote features
p. 0933 | Sablok, Shashi

Nitrobicyclicimidazoles with potent antitubercular activity
p. 0933 | Nagarajan, K.

The quest for earth's oldest crust
p. 0935 | Sankaran, A. V.

Why don't medical graduates join programmes in hard science?
p. 0938 | Sitaramam, V.

From the archives
p. 0940

Antioxidant and antitumour activity of Pleurotus florida
p. 0941 | Jose, Nayana; Janardhanan, K. K.

Annual breeding cycle and spawning behaviour of Hyla annectans Jerdon 1870 in Nagaland, India
p. 0943 | Ao, Meren; Bordoloi, Sabitry

Postcleithrum of silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Val. 1844), an authentic indicator for age determination
p. 0945 | Johal, M. S.; Esmaeili, H. R.; Tandon, K. K.

Small-angle neutron scattering diffractometer at Dhruva reactor
p. 0947 | Aswal, V. K.; Goyal, P. S.

Production of agronomically superior trans­genic rice plants using Agrobacterium transformation methods: Present status and future perspectives
p. 0954 | Roy, Malabika B.; Jain, Rajinder Kumar; Rohila, Jai Singh; Wu, Ray

Geometrical features of a nonlinear wavefront
p. 0961 | Prasad, Phoolan

Structural heterogeneity in DNA gyrases from Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria
p. 0968 | Manjunatha, U. H.; Madhusudan, K.; Visweswariah, Sandhya S.; Nagaraja, V.

Forest dynamics in tropical rain forests of Uttara Kannada district in Western Ghats, India
p. 0975 | Bhat, D. M.; Naik, M. B.; Patagar, S. G.; Hegde, G. T.; Kanade, Y. G.; Hegde, G. N.; Shastri, C. M.; Shetti, D. M.; Furtado, R. M.

Vitamin D receptor and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism in spinal tuberculosis
p. 0986 | Selvaraj, P.; Kurian, S. M.; Reetha, A. M.; Charles, Niruparani; Narayanan, P. R.

Hospital effluent: A source of multiple drug-resistant bacteria
p. 0989 | Chitnis, V.; Chitnis, D.; Patil, S.; Kant, Ravi

Isolated and multiple b-turns with proline in the third position
p. 0992 | Guruprasad, K.; Pavan, M. N.; Rajkumar, S.; Swaminathan, S.

RAPD analysis of genetic variability in Indian scented rice germplasm (Oryza sativa L. )
p. 0994 | Raghunathachari, P.; Khanna, V. K.; Singh, U. S.; Singh, N. K.

Studies on somatic embryogenesis from immature zygotic embryos of chir pine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg. )
p. 0999 | Mathur, Gaurav; Arnold, Sara Von; Nadgauda, Rajani S.

On the occurrence of small and moderate earthquakes of the Himalayan Seismic Belt
p. 1004 | Gahalaut, V. K.; ., Kalpna

Quantitative estimation of proteolytic enzyme and ultrastructural study of anterior part of intestine of Indian major carp (Catla catla) larvae during ontogenesis
p. 1007 | Kumar, Sunil; Sharma, Jai Gopal; Chakrabarti, Rina

Role of 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl alanine in the nodulation response of silkworm Bombyx mori L. to bacterial infection
p. 1011 | Krishnan, N.; Mohanan, Madana; Chaudhuri, N. A.; Mitra, P.; Saratchandra, B.; Roy, A. K.

Perplexing Problems in Probability - Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kesten
p. 1017 | Roy, Rahul

Statphys - Calcutta III. Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Physics
p. 1017 | Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna

Mutational and Morphological Ana­lysis - Tools for Shape Evolution and Morphogenesis
p. 1018 | Kesavan, S.

Flora of The District Garhwal North West Himalaya (with Ethno-botanical Notes)
p. 1019 | Ram, H. Y. Mohan

Mountain Biodiversity, Land Use Dyna­mics, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
p. 1020 | Daniels, R. J. Ranjit; Vencatesan, Jayshree

Press Tools - Design and Construction
p. 1021 | Simha, K. R. Y.

Sir Mark Oliphant (1901-2000) - An obituary
p. 1022 | Santiapillai, Charles

The Current Science Advertisement information page
p. 1024

Department of Atomic Energy(DAE)
p. 1025

CSIR - Regional Research Laboratory(RRL)
p. 1028

National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning
p. 1029

Anna University
p. 1029

Senior Software Developers
p. 1030

All India Coordinated Project on Taxonomy (AICOPTAX)
p. 1030

University of Pune
p. 1031

Current Science-Submission Form
p. 1031

Gujarat Agricultural University
p. 1032