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xxxii ANNUAL REPORT Departmental Notes Professor Huxley was sent out to East Africa on behalf of the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education to report on the place of biology in native education there For the Social and Political Educa- tion League he gave lecture at University College on Scientific Humanism as the New Social Outlook Department of Botany Number of Students Intermediate Science 26 First Medical 68 Sc Hons Special and General 17 Intercollegiate '" History of Science Plant Distribution Research Miscellaneous 10 Total 166 Results of Examinations In the Special Sc Examination candidates obtained Second Class Honours and Pass Degree Higher Degrees Ph Mr Fikry Phenomena of heterotypic division in the pollen mother-cells of tetraploid form of Rumex scutatus var typicus Sc Mr Catcheside Chromosome linkage and syndesis in Enothera Sc Mr Selim cytological study of Oryza saliva Researches In addition to the investigations published during the Session see Appendix III the following researches have been carried out by other workers in the Department Mr Newman Sc Sydney morphological and cytological investigations of Australian Acaeias Mr Hedayetullah Sc Calcutta the structure of chromosomes in Narcissus Mr Boswell Sc biochemical investigations of dry rot in wood Mr Pratt Sc experimental work on the first sugar of photosynthesis Mr Daran Madras reproductive methods in various members of the Mucorineee