CONTENTS

DATED 25 AUGUST 1998

• The Highlights of this Issue

• 335 Animals in research

• 339 TIFAC cell inculcates patent awareness in scientist–masses
• 340 Technology Development Board fundees score reaches quarter-century
• 340 Vice-President presents G. D. Birla awards
• 341 First eleven Swarnajayanti Fellowships awarded

• 337 Western challenge to free passage of scientists
  S. Faizi

• 338 Scientists against nuclear weapons
  G. Rajasekaran

• 338 Alum treatment process for fluoride reduction in potable water
  Jabali Vora and J. D. Joshi

• 349 Surprises on a surface
  S. K. Srivatsa

• 341 Regulating export of endangered medicinal plant species – Need for scientific rigour
  D. K. Ved, Anjana Mudappa and Darshan Shankar

• 344 Animal experiments and biomedical advance
  V. Ramalingaswami

• 351 Protection of deep aquifers from arsenic contamination in Bengal Basin
  D. Muralidharan

• 353 Ecosystem flips in cultural landscapes: The case of Kolli Hills
  J. Ranjit Daniels and Jayshree Vencatesan

• 356 Germination improvement in teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f.) through forced ageing
  P. Masilamani and C. Dharmalingam

• 357 A note on uranium mineralization in the Neoproterozoic calcitic phosphorite from Ramtirth, Bhima basin, Gulbarga district, Karnataka
  U. P. Sharma, R. Gajapathi Rao, S. A. Pandit and Mary K. Kumar

• 359 Oxidative damage and changes in activities of antioxidant enzymes in wheat seedlings exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation
  Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Preetha Anand and Sangeeta Sankhalkar

• 366 Late Quaternary morphotectonic evolution of Upper Indus valley profile: A cosmogenic radionuclide study of river polished surfaces
  Kewal K. Sharma, Z. Y. Gu, D. Lal, M. W. Caffee and J. Southon

• 372 Clouds and cloud radiative forcing over tropical Indian Ocean and their relationship with sea surface temperature
  D. S. Pai and M. Rajeevan

• 381 Toxicity of tuibur, a unique form of tobacco smoke extract used in Mizoram, India
  J. Mahanta, M. Chetia, N. C. Hazarika, K. Narain and S. K. Sharma

• 385 Expression of exogenously introduced b -galactosidase gene in a tropical, marine, oil-degrading strain of Yarrowia lipolytica NCIM 3589
  Vimala R. Iyer and Deepti D. Deobagkar

• 387 Qualitative identification of type II antibody function in rabbit antihuman
  IF–B₁₂ complex antiserum and its cross reactivity
  K. Srikumar

• 391 Antiquity of the Narmada Homo erectus, the early man of India
  Arun Sonakia and S. Biswas

• 393 Occurrence of amino acids in Middle-Krol stromatolites from Nainital, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya
  C. K. Pant, Charu C. Pant, S. Kalra and H. D. Pathak

• 396 Carbon isotope systematics of graphites from Dharwar craton, southern India: Implications to their source and post-depositional alterations
  B. Kumar and S. Das Sharma

• 400 Language Behaviour: Acquisition and Evolutionary History, reviewed by Anindya Sinha

• 401 Annual Review of Entomology 1998, reviewed by T. N. Ananthakrishnan

• 403 Geodynamic Domain in the Alpine Himalayan Tethys, reviewed by S. V. Srikantia

• 405 Sir James Lighthill: In remembrance
  P. N. Shankar

• ERRATA

• 406 Synthesis of meteorological observations and modelling studies to assess climate change mitigation strategies over India
  H. N. Srivastava and Malti Goel [Curr. Sci., 1998, 75, 95–97]

• 406 Air pollution in Calcutta during winter – A three-year study
  Gautam Samanta et al. [Curr. Sci., 1998, 75, 123–138]