"Jan. 17 chromosomes. None of the students had seen these structures. Only a few schools are getting into the new approaches to biology. Seshachar mentioned the following: Banaras (on the way to Calcutta) - called Banaras Hindu University. Professor Ray Chaudhury is supposed there in experimental biology and genetics. Then there is the Annamalai Univ. in the town of Chidambaram. The professor there is R.V. Seshaiya. Finally there is Portonovo, a small place where they have a marine biological station. According to Seshachar these are about the only places that are up and coming. Seshachar has been to the United States. He remarked that in India there were two kinds of people in the universities - those who had been to the states and those who are trying to get there. He knows Stern, Majin, Balmuth. To illustrate how Indian science is lagging, he pointed out that in entomology, a field much in demand, there was still stress primarily on morphology and field work was largely neglected. I was able to get some first hand information on the present distribution of the larger animals in India. The accompanying map brings this out.