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Stebbins, R.
1963
Ocean Trip
New Delhi
Jan. 17 The pressure on faculty is not so much to publish (although it is there) but rather to get out PhD's.
I then was given a brief tour of several labs. In one lab I saw jars of ciliates. The animals could easily be seen with the naked eye. Seebacher is studying the chemotin fibers of the macro-muscles. In another lab a young man (endocrinologist) was introduced who has worked in the U.S. He has received $20,000 from the Ford Foundation to study reproductive physiology. In another lab a young faculty member was studying gonadotropins of the pituitary of a local cat fish. He had successfully gonadectomized his animals. Seebacher decries the shortage of space to keep animals. They are using one of the lavatories in the new zoology block as an animal room.
Seebacher laments the fact that so much zoology is indoors and wishes more work would be done in the field but he points out people don't like the field - where they may be uncomfortable - exposed to insects, cold, wetness, etc.
I then went to the Red Fort area for photographic work. It was humidity at a low level. In one rocky patch I found