university examinations, etc. The registration of births is still extremely incomplete in India, even in municipal areas. In January 1939, Colonel R. S. Townsend, gave us a copy of a paper written by himself and Rai Bahadur Dr. Raghunandan Lall, m.bv b.s., on age determination of Indian girls in the United Provinces by .T-ray demonstration of epiphysial union. His paper was published in the Ind...

During 1914 to 1939, Selman A. Waksman had been consistently systematically screening soil bacteria and fungi to find an antibiotic for tuberculosis. In 1939, he discovers the effect of certain fungi specially actinomycetes on bacterial growth. In 1940, he was able to isolate an effective T.B. antibiotic, actinomycin and for this he got success in 1944, with the discovery of Spectromycin.For al...