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FROM India first numbers of two new zoological journal, Indian Journal of Helminthology and Journal of the Zoological Society of India. Both are of the same format, 7¼ in. by 9¾ in., of practically the same number of pages, 68 and 70, respectively, and neither contains plates although each is well illustrated by test-figures. The Indian Journal of Helminthology was published in October 1948 under the editorship of Prof. Gobind Singh Thapar, who contributes the first paper in it, and it is sponsored by the recently formed Helminthological Society of India (Lucknow: Dept. of Zoology, University. Rs. 5 each issue). Of its six contributions, four are on helminths from fish, one on trematodes from birds and the remaining one on a cercaria from the freshwater snail, Melanoides tuberoulatus. The cercaria, C. patialensis, is remarkable in several respects ; inter alia, the brevifurcate tail has two processes arising from the region where it joins the body, and it possesses fully formed testes and ovaries with their respective ducts, and even motile sperms. The paper and type are good, and the wide margins give a pleasing appearance in these austere times. The Journal of the Zoological Society of India was published in January 1949, under the auspices of the Zoological Society of India (Calcutta), founded in 1939, and while at present it appears half-yearly, it is hoped to produce it quarterly. Its eleven contributions contain the annual address to the Society by Dr. M. L. Roonwall, and papers on fish, free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes, insects and ecology. It is closely printed, in two columns to the page with narrow margins, so that while not so pleasant to read as the other journal, it contains much more material. These journals will furnish additional outlets for Indian zoologists, and we wish them success.
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Two New Indian Zoological Journals. Nature 164, 177 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164177c0
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