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    Current Science-Volume 10
 
 
January 1941
 

Science and Industry - Sir Ardeshir Dalal

1-10
Libraries and Library Movement - S. R. Ranganathan 11-14

The Rumanian Earthquake of Nov.10 1940 - A. R. Pillai

15-16
The Indian Academy of Sciences 17-18

Board of scientific and industrial research

18
Letters to the Editor  
Excitation of light emission from Quartz under impact with canal rays of hydrogen and nitrogen - V. T. Chiplonkar 19-21
Gravimetric determination of manganese with 8-hydroxy-quinoline - K. Neelakantam 21-22
On the velocity of sound in and chemical reactivity of bromine and iodine - Binayendra Nath Sen 22-23
The milk clotting enzyme of Withania coagulans - K. M. Yesoda 23-24
Catalysis by Ascorbic acid - G. Gopala Rao and T. V. Subba Rao 24-25
Strains of Colletotrichum falcatum Went. - S. A. Rafay and S. Y. Padmanabhan 25-26
Production of fruit bodies of Agariceus polyporus Berk, in artificial culture - Madhusudan Chakrabarty 26-28
Chromosomes of Riccia himalayensis St. (Ms.) - T. S. Mahabale and G. H. Gorji 28-29
Soil Algae of Lahore - Jagjiwan Singh 29-30
A note on the development of the female gametophyte in Abroma augusta L. and Pentapetes phoenicea L. - I. Banerji 30
Physiology of pollination in Orchidaceae - K. N. Seshagiriah 30-32
Spearfish attacks an Otter board - C. Amirthalingam and M. Monnington 32-33
Our Earth Lore - R. R. B. 33-34

Book Reviews

35-38
Hydrocarbon Chemistry - M. A. Govinda Rau 38-39

Scientific Research and the future of Indian Industry

40-41
Centenaries  
Horrocks, Jeremiah (1617-1641) 41
Godfrey, Ambrose (d. 1741) 41
Huddart, Joseph (1741-1816) 41

Science Notes and News

42-47
Academies and Societies 48

Supplement To Current Science - The Deccan Traps: An Episode of the Tertiary Era ( Presidential Address, Indian Science Congress Madras, 1940)

49-56
FEBRUARY 1941
 

War efforts and the key industries of India - J. C. Ghosh

57-63
A brief survey of industrial research carried out in India 64
Sir P. C. Ray's Birthday Celebrations 64

Yaudheya Coin moulds from Sunet, near Ludhiana in Sutlej valley - B. Sahni

65-67
All India soil survey - B. Vishvanath 67-69
The First All-India Pharmaceutical conference 69-70

Letters to the Editor

 
Interaction of atomic energy levels - T. S. Subbaraya, K. Seshadri and N. A. Narayana Rao 71-74
A new (2->2) band in the spectrum of the OD molecule - A. L. Narayan 75
A note on coagulation of colloids by bimetallic junctions - P. B. Ganguly 75
Magnetic susceptibility of Iodic acid in Aq. solution (Constitution of Iodic acid) - M. R. Nayar and N. K. Mundle 76
Synthesis of dl, Analobine-o-Methyl ether (dl-2, Methoxt-5, 6 Methylene Dioxy-nor-Aporphine) - T. R. Govindachari 76-77
Alleged dimeric constitution of ethylene Diamino Cupric chloride - Kanai Lal Mandal 78
Two new genes for corolla colour in Cicer arietinum L. - B. S. Kadam, S. M. Patel and V. K. Patnakar 78-79
Adventitious roots of Ragi (Eleusine coracana, Gaertn.) - N. Krishnaswamy and G. N. Rangaswamy Ayyangar 79-80
The inheritance of the manifestation of purple colour at the Pulvinar region in the panicles of sorghum - G. N. Rangaswamy Ayyangar and A. Kunhi Koran Nambiar 80-82
The origin and nature of the bases of the secondary thickenings of Xylem vessels in Heracleum sphondylium L. - G. P. Majumdar 82-83
A Mycelial fungus on leaving leaves of Lindsaya cultrata - A. K. Mitra 83-84
The function of protozoa in the activated sludge process - S. C. Pillai 84-85
A new aspect of Hydroponics: "Hanging Gardens" in the activated sludge tank - S. C. Pillai 85
Soil algae of Lahore - H. Chaudhri 86

Industrial Research Utilization Committee

86

Book Reviews

87-89
The cytology and genetics of Yeasts - B. Srinivasan 90-91

Scientific research and the future of Indian industry

92
Indian Central cotton Committee 93
Indian Science Congress, Benares 1941 94-99

Centenaries

 
Cooper, Astley Paston (1768-1841) 99-100
Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert (1774-1841) 100
Science Notes and News 100-107

Academies and Societies

108
Errata 108

Supplement To Current Science - Organization of public health and medical service in India - Brevet-Col. Sir R. N. Chopra

109-116
MARCH 1941
 

The Coordination of Road and Rail Transport - C. N. R. Rau

117-123
The Deccan Trap - R. R. B. 123

The Electrostatic generator for nuclear Disintegration - C. K. Sundarachar, J. F. Streib and B. V. Raghavendra Rao

124-126
Manufacture of drugs from indigenous resources 126

Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

127-128
Sir Ram Nath chopra 128-129

Sir C. V. Raman

130
Manufacture of Scientific Stores 130

Dr Homi J. Bhabha

131

The severe magnetic storm of March 1, 1941 - M. R. Rangaswami

132-133
Prevention of Ghee Adulteration 133
Book Reviews 134-137

The Raman Effect - H. J. Taylor

138-139
Regime flow in incorrect Alluvium - C. Gopalakrishnan 139-142

Some Practical results of Sugarcane results in India

142-143

Obituaries

 
Sir Frederick Banting 144-145
Sir Shah Mohammad Sulaiman 145-148
Advance of education on the frontier 148

Indian science congress - Banares 1941: Summaries of addresses of presidents of sections

149-153
The Magnetic activity of the years 1939 and 1940 - M. R. Rangaswami 153-155

Identification of commercial Timbers - K. Ahmad Choudary

155
Centenaries  
Green, George (1793-1841) 156

Science Notes and News

156-163

Academies and Societies

163
Erratum 163
Supplement To Current Science - Letters to the Editor  
The Consistency of Einstein's New Relativity with the Geodesic Postulate - V. V. Narlikar 164-165
Standard Error of the Difference between Two Estimates for Incomplete Block Experiments - P. V. Krishna Iyer 165
"Expectation" of Growth of Population - H. E. Peries 165-166
Arc Discharge in Mercury - B. Dasannacharya and C. Dakshinamurti 166-167
Acoustic Velocity in Rochelle Salt Solutions - L. Sibaiya and R. L. Narasimhaiya 168-169
Visible Absorption Bands of Mercuric Chloride - A. L. Sundara Rao 169
Ultra-Violet Emission Bands of Mercuric Chloride - M. G. Sastry 169
Infantile Mortality and Beriberi - W. R. Aykroyd and B. G. Krishnan 169-171
Hard Leaf Mid-rib in Sugarcanes and Resistance to Top Borer (Scirpophaga
nivella
F.) - J. Thuljaram Rao and T. S. Venkatraman
171-172
The Cardamom Weevil, Prodioctes haematicus Chev. var, in South India - S. Jones 172
A Note on the Mineral Water from Surangudi - T. N. Muthuswami 172-173
Chromatin Bridges in the Root Tip of Groundnut - C. N. Babu 173-174
Certain Abnormalities in the Root Tips of Cotton - K. T. Jacob 174-175
Some Unusual Megaspore Tetrads in the Leguminosae - J. V. Pantulu 175-176
Origin of Bicollateral Bundles in the Petiole of Heracleum sphondylium - Girija P. Majumdar 177-178
Testes in the Adult Cockroach, Periplaneta americana Linn. - D. P. Raichoudhury and Haridas Mitra 178-179
A Statistical Examination of Taste Differences in Bajra Varieties - G. K. Govande 179-180
A Quick and Simple Procedure for the Estimation of Vitamin B1 in Rice - V. V. S. Murty and Y. V. S. Rau 180-182
A Note on Dr. Kajale's Recent Paper on the Amaranthaceae - P. Maheshwari 182
Heteropoda venatoria Preying on a Pipistrelle Bat - G. C. Bhattacharya 183
Soil Solution Studies in Irrigation Practices - B. T. Mulwani 183-184

APRIL 1941

 
The improvement of the Indian cattle - A. K. Yagna Narayan Aiyer 185-190

A bivariate extension of Fisher's Z-test - D. D. Kosambi

191-192

Mathematical obfuscations in biology - S. D. S. Grewal

193-194
A preliminary note on the severe Mexican earthquake of April 15, 1941 - M. R. Rangaswami 194-195

Obituary

196
Letters to the Editor  
Ultra-Violet Band Spectrum of HgBr - M. U. Sastry 197
Crystal Structure of Coumarin - S. Rama Swamy 197-198
Optical Sensitisation and Photovoltaic Effect of Dyes - Bh. S. V. Raghava Rao 198-199
Photovoltaic Effects in Dye Solutions - Bh. S. V. Raghava Rao 200
Verification of Kaufmann Condition, for Arc Discharge, in Mercury - B.
Dasannacharya and C. Dakshinamurti
200-201
Modified Equations for Adsorption and base-exchange in Soils - K. P. Shukla and M. R. Nayar 201-204
The Efficiency of Some Special Petroleum Fractions as Water "Entrainers" in the Industrial Dehydration of Ethyl Alcohol - N. Srinivasan 204-207
An Ideal Preservative for Suspected Washes - S. N. Chakravarti, K. R.
Ganguly and R. D. Sarma
207-211
A New Host—Ricinus communis—for Leveillula taurica (Lev.) Arn. [Oidiopsis taurica (Lev.) Salm.] - T. S. Ramakrishnan and I. L. Narasimhalu 211-212
Pythium aphanidermatum (Edson) Fitz. on Carica papaya - K. S. Bhargava 212-213
Economics of manuring - P. V. Sukhatme 214
Purification and chemical nature of rennin - C. N. Bhima Rao, M. V. Lakshminarayan Rao, M. S.  Ramaswamy and V. Subrahmanyan 215-219
Book Reviews 220
Annals of physics; Record of a year's achievements - T. S. Subbaraya 221-222
Outlook for whale oil and whaling - R. Child 222-223
Cinchona cultivation in India - S. C. Sen 223-227
Aquarium and marine biological laboratory of the university of Travancore - C. C. John 227-231
Centenaries  
Richardson, Richard (1663-1741) 231
Sargeant, Charles Sprague (1841-1927) 231
 Polygala senega Linn. - S. Krishna 232
Science Notes and News 233-237
Academies and Societies 237-238
Erratum 238
MAY 1941
 
Sir P. C. Ray 239-240
The quantum theory of X-ray reflection - Sir C. V. Raman and P. Nilakantan 241-245
The sulphur position in India - S. S. Bhatnagar 245-250
Annals of biochemistry and experimental medicine 250
Letters to the Editor  
A Significant Case of Mirror Drawing - P. S. Naidu 251-253
Nature of Receptors in the Human Retina - A. S. Ramaswamy 253-254
Root-Rot of Sugarcane - T. S. Ramakrishnan 254-255
Albinism in Lablab - G. N. Rangaswami Ayyangar and K. Kunhi Krishnan Nambiar 255
Tricotyledony in Lablab - G. N. Rangaswami Ayyangar and K. Kunhi Krishnan Nambiar 255-256
A New Type of Mechanical Construction in the Stem of Panicum punctatum Burm - Girija P. Majumdar 256-257
The Development of Endosperm in Leucas aspera Spreng. - S. Narasimha Murthy 257-259
On Two Kinds of Fish Eggs Hatched Out in the Laboratory of West Hill Biological
Station, Calicut - D. W. Devanesan and K. Chidambaram
259-261
Micro-estimation of Nitrogen by Oxidative Digestion - C. N. Bhima Rao, M. V.
Lakshminarayan Rao and M. S. Ramaswamy
261-262
Book Reviews 263-270
Agriculture in Afghanistan - A. K. Y. 270
Centenaries  
Dewees, William Potts (1768-1841) 271
Radcliffe, William (1760-1841) 271
Science Notes and News 272-277
Academies and Societies 277-278
Erratum 278
JUNE 1941
 
Post-war industrial reconstruction 279-281
Chromosome number and polyploidy in Amphibia - B. R. Seshachar 282-284
Cancer research in India 284
On the heat wave over Northern India in April-May 1941 - C. Ramaswamy 285-286
Letters to the Editor  
Fuse spectrum of Aluminium - S. Venkatesha 287-288
On the stability of vitaminised oil - U. P. Basu and J. C. Sen Gupta 288-289
Catalase activity in Mangifera indica - H. K. Banerjee and B. K. Kar 289-290
The occurrence of Darluca filum (Biv.) cast on cereal rusts in South India - T. S. Ramakrishnan and I. L. Narasimhalu 290-291
Certain abnormalities in the root tip of groundnut - C. N. Babu 291-292
Genus Cylindrocapsa in India - M. S. Randhawa 292-294
Observations on Balantidium coli (Malmsten) - M. Chakravarty and A. N. Mitra 294-295
Emasculation in chillies (Capsicum Genus) - R. Swamirao, M. P. Narasimharao and S. T. Ramaswami 296
Vegetative propagation of mango from gootes (Marcotte) and cuttings by treatment with high concentration auxin - A. Guha Thakurta and B. K. Dutt 297
A note on the embryology of Scoparia dulcis Linn. and Angelonia grandiflora C. Morr. - P. Maheshwari and H. S. Navalakha 297-298
Discovery of Celestite in the Trichy district - N. Jayaraman 299
Prof. Bawa Kartar Singh 299
Book Reviews 300-303
The Indian Statistical Institute - K. B. Madhava 303-304
Rosha grass oil - Prof. Jai Chand Luthra 305-306
Centenaries  
Johnson, William Woolsey (1841-1927) 307
Cullingworth, Charles James (1841-1908) 307
The inter-university board, India 307-308
Science Notes and News 308-313
Academies and Societies 313-314
JULY 1941
 
University of Orissa 315-317
Silver Jubilee Convocation 318
Research workers and the patent system - Dr. P. K. Kapre 319-322
On the Malabar cyclone of May 1941 - C. Ramaswamy 322-324
Rai Bahadur Professor K. C. Mehta 324
Letters to the Editor  
Polarisation of some Spectral Lines excited by Low Speed Electrons in a Discharge Tube containing Mercury or Mercury-Cadmium Amalgam as Anode - B. N. Ghosh 325-326
An Improved Method for the Determination of "Prothrombin Time" - N. K. Iyengar, K. B. Sehra and B. Mukerji 326-328
The Inhibitory Effect of Excess of Calcium on Quick's Prothrombin Time - D. V. S. Reddy and C. Venkataramaiah 328-329
Air Temperatures given in Meteorological Reports Compared with those on the
First Floor of a Building at Poona - V. Doraiswamy Iyer
329-331
Analysis of the Oil of Ziphius cavirostris (Goose-beaked Whale) - N. G. Baptist 331
A Long-glumed Mutation in Rice - B. S. Kadam, M. V. Gadkari and G. G. Patil 331-333
The Structure, of the Chromosome - K. V. Srinath 333
Note on the Origin of the Magnetite Deposits of Mayurbhanj State, Orissa - S. C. Chatterjee 334-335
A Margosa Tree without the Bitter Principle - K. Cherian Jacob 335
Book Reviews 336-342
Ramanujan - His life and work - M. R. Siddiqi 343-344
Metrology of punch-marked coins - K. A. N. 345-346
An aid to study of Kant - R. Naga Raja Sarma 346-347
Centenaries  
Baskerville, Simon (1574-1641) 347
Science Notes and News 348-351
Academies and Societies 352
AUGUST 1941
 
The standardization of drugs and chemicals 353-355
Lady Tata Memorial Trust 356
Recent investigations on the wheat rust problem in India - K. C. Mehta 357-361
Obituary - Dr W. L. Davies 361
Letters to the Editor  
Isotope Effect in the (OH), (OD) Bands - M. G. Sastry 362-363
Magnetic Susceptibility of Strontium - S. Ramachandra Rao and K. Savitri 363
A Bridge Method for Determining the Frequency of an Alternating Current in the Audio-Frequency Range - L. M. Chatterjee 363-364
Chromosome Number of Sesamum radiatum, Schum and Thonn. Beskr. - C. M. John and U. Narasinga Rao 364-365
Rind Hardness as a Possible Factor in Resistance of Sugarcane Varieties to the
Stem Borer - J. Thuljaram Rao
365-366
A Preliminary Note on a Melampsora Parasitic on Lobelia trigona Roxb. - M. J. Thirumalachar 366-367
Vascular Supply in the Ovules of Some Compositae - J. Venkateswarlu 367-368
Note on the Infection of Copepod (Diaptomus) with Larval Trematode - V. N. Moorthy 368-370
Sulphur Position in India - N. N. Chatterjee 370-371
A Margosa Tree without the Bitter Principle - B. Sahni 371
Correlation and time series - D. D. Kosambi 372-374
Commensalism in sponges - D. W. Devanesan and P. I. Chacko 374
Book Reviews 375-379
Physiology of respiration of the air 379-380
Centenaries  
Common, Andrew Ainsle (1841-1903) 380
Inter-university Board, India, Annual Report 1942-41 381
Science Notes and News 382-387
Academies and Societies 388
SEPTEMBER 1941
 
Sir M. Visvesvaraya 389-392
Palaeobotany in India 392
 A hypothesis as to the origin of cosmic rays and the experimental testing of it in India and elsewhere - R. A. Millikan, H. V. Neher and W. H. Pickering 393-394
On the origin and development of silver coin age in India  - D. D. Kosambi 395-400
Research workers and the patent system II. What is patentable? - P. K. Kapre 401-403
Letters to the Editor  
Reaction between Ethyl Iodide and Copper Salts - V. D. Taskar, M. S. Telang and V. V. Nadkarny 404
A Sensitive Test for the Detection of Argemone Oil - S. N. SARKAR 405
An Improved Volumetric Method for the Estimation of Uric Acid - Y. V.
Narayanayya
405-406
Top-Rot ('Twisted Top' or 'Pokkah Bong') of Sugarcane, Sorghum and Cumbu -
T. S. Ramakrishnan
406-408
The Occurrence and Inheritance of a Bloomless Sorghum - G. N. Rangaswami Ayyangar and B. W. X. Ponnaiya 408-409
The Occurrence and Inheritance of Shoots from the Axils, of Panicle Branches in
Sorghum sudanense - G. N. Rangaswami Ayyangar and B. W. X. Ponnaiya
409-410
Two New Genes Conditioning the Tint of the Colour on the Glumes of Sorghum - G. N. Rangaswami Ayyangar and B. W. X. Ponnaiya 410-411
Kernels of Thevetia neriifolia Juss.—A Potent Insecticide - M. C. Cherian and S. Ramachandran 412
Genetical Studies of Eri Silkworms (Attacus ricini Boisd) - M. C. Cherian and V. Mahadevan 412
Effect of Storage on the Quality of Pongamia Oil - N. V. Subba Rao and T. R. Seshadri 413
A Margosa Tree without the Bitter Principle - M. J. Thirumalachar 413-414
- By K. Cherian Jacob 414
Book Reviews 415-418
Centenaries  
Paracelsus (1490-1541) 418
De Candolle, Augustin Pyramus (1778-1841) 418-419
Science Notes and News 419-423
Academies and Societies 423-424
Scientific terminology in Indian languages - D.V.G.
425-431
The severe magnetic storm of September 18, 1941 - M.R. Rangaswami and A.S. Chaubal
432-433
Whisling meteors - A doppler effect produced by meteors entering the ionosphere
433
Letters to the Editor
434-446
Reviews 447