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ZOOLOGISTS will be interested in the appearance of vol. 1, No. 1 of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Bengal which, it is announced, will be published twice yearly and will contain the results of original research in the various branches of zoology. The first number (obtainable from the Society at 35 Ballrgunge Circular Road, Calcutta ; price 5 Rs. or 10s.) comprises 78 pages and 4 plates ; and it contains eight papers covering a wide field, contributed mainly by the Department of Zoology of the University of Calcutta. S. P. R. Chaudhuri and I. Bose give an account of meiosis in diploid and tetraploid spermatocytes of the grasshopper Auractomorpha sp., while meiosis and chiasma formation in another grasshopper, Tristria pulvinata, is the subject of a paper by M. K. Dutt. In a study of the scales in Glossogobuis giuris, S. Mookerjee shows that the ctenoid condition is an advance on the cycloid which occurs earlier in development. The bionomics and reproduction of another fish, Ophicephalus striatus, are discussed by H. K. Mookerjee, D. N. Ganguly and R. N. Bhattacharya, and R. P. Dhar contributes a hæmatological note on a closely allied species. Some myxosporidians parasitic in fishes are described by M. Chakravarty and S. P. Basu. Termite control with various insecticides tried out in the field is the subject of an investigation by D. Mukerji and P. K. Mitra, and the final paper, concerning the development of the vertebral column in Alligator mississippiensis, is by H. K. Mookerjee and R. N. Bhattacharya. Text and figures are clearly printed on good art paper.
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Zoological Society of Bengal: New Journal. Nature 163, 204–205 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163204d0
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