• 1563 In this issue

• 1565 Biology at millennium’s end P. Balaram

• 1567 Women in science, Rohini M. Godbole

• 1568  Future of science in India, V. Ramamurthy

• 1568  Science in service of society: A proposal and request for suggestions, J. Pasupathy

• 1569  Earthquake prediction – A distant dream, J. V. Subbaraman

• 1569  Global geological resource locator, M. Ramkumar

• 1570 A novel method of growing bulk single crystals, D. Vijayaraghavan

• 1571 Nuclear structure and dynamics, R. Shyam and Amita

• 1572 Biogeochemistry of trace elements, Kuldeep Singh

• 1574 Diamonds in komatiites and some contemporary views about this gem-carbon A. V. Sankaran

• 1577 Emerging trends in agricultural biotechnology research: Use of abiotic stress-induced promoter to drive expression of a stress resistance gene in the transgenic system leads to high level stress tolerance associated with minimal negative effects on growth Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Manu Agarwal and Anil Grover

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

• 1580 Evaluation of parameters affecting the isolation and culture of protoplasts of Hevea brasiliensis (Muell. Arg.) S. Sushamakumari, S. Sobha, R. Jayasree and M. P. Asokan

• 1582 Comparing men and women: A proposal concerning the genes vs gender issue in studies of cognitive abilities H. Sharat Chandra

GENERAL ARTICLES

• 1584 Combating opium-linked global abuses and supplementing the production of edible seed and seed oil: A novel non-narcotic var. Sujata of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) J. R. Sharma, R. K. Lal, H. O. Misra, A. A. Naqvi and D. D. Patra

• 1589 Human dimensions of climate change: Results of a survey of scientists and engineers S. Pruthi, Subhan Khan and M. A. Qureshi

• 1598 The Coastal Regulation Zone of Goa: Oceanographic, environmental and societal perspectives Antonio Mascarenhas

REVIEW ARTICLE

• 1606 Crustal structure of Peninsular Shield, India from DSS studies P. R. Reddy, N. Venkateswarlu, P. Koteswara Rao and A. S. S. S. R. S. Prasad

• 1612 Joint application of seismic refraction and vertical electrical sounding for the delineation of shallow aquifers Sankar Kumar Nath and Shamsuddin Shahid

• 1624 The theory of strings: An introduction Sunil Mukhi

• 1635 Duality symmetries in string theory Ashoke Sen

• 1646 String theory and Hawking radiationb Sumit R. Das

• 1659 The gravity–guage theory correspondence

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

• 1669 Indian explosions of 11 May 1998: Analysis of regional Lg and Rayleigh waves Falguni Roy, G. J. Nair, T. K. Basu, S. K. Sikka, Anil Kakodkar, R. Chidambaram, S. N. Bhattacharya and V. S. Ramamurthy

• 1673 In vitro haemorrhage-like activity of Russell’s viper (Vipera russelli russelli) venom from Eastern India with mice organs Kausiki Datta and Debasish Bhattacharyya

• 1677 Structural aberrations in fluorosed human teeth: Biochemical and scanning electron microscopic studies A. K. Susheela, Madhu Bhatnagar, N. Gnanasundram and T. R. Saraswathy

• 1681 Sr–Nd isotopic composition of lamprophyre dykes from Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica A. M. Dayal and S. M. Hussain

• 1685 Phyllonites from Attur Shear Zone and its tectonic significance in Southern Granulite Terrain, South India B. K. Bhadra

BOOK REVIEWS

• 1688 The Best of Annals of Improbable Research, reviewed by Sanjay A. Pai

• 1688  Harmonic Analysis and Hypergroups, reviewed by Alladi Sitaram

• 1689  The Physics of Fluids and Plasmas, reviewed by A. Thyagaraja

• 1690  Cyanobacterial Biotechnology, reviewed by Deepti Deobagkar

• 1691  Annual Review of Physiology 1999, reviewed by S. K. Sikdar

PERSONAL NEWS

• 1693 Bal Dattatreya Tilak – An obituary G. T. Panse