Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Indian Science Congress. Bangalore 1951.Late Abstracts Discussions List of Members and Index

The mechanism is actuated by the change of reflectivity of the disc produced at the dew-point by the formation of a film of dew on the reflecting surface. [...] The height above sea level of the top of the haze layer has been estimated by measuring the angle of dip of the haze line below the horizontal. [...] The parallels of latitude and climate do not seem to account for the range of distribution as the limit in the southern river Rohin is about 27° whereas the limit in the northern most river the Jamuna is as high as 30° of latitude. [...] The histology of the urogenital organs of the specimen corroborates the previous observations by the author on the same specimen that the 'male hormone secreted by the unilateral left testis caused the appearance of the male secundary sexual characters of the adult hermaphroditic toad which otherwise appeared to be a healthy one. [...] The changes in the weight of successive quarter of an inch of a fibre from the apical end are on an average 55.4% 26.7% and -2.7% the percentage increase of any section being based on the fibre weight of the previous section.