Volume 249 Issue 5457, 7 June 1974

100 years ago

Russia's curtained window on the west

• Vera Rich

Canada's reply to Indian nuclear explosion

• David Spurgeon

Oil from Russia?

Archaeology in crisis

The future of National Parks

• Peter J. Smith

Chilean symposium

• FR. BARBERI
• E. LOCARDI
• J. VARET

Spilt milk

• J. WIND

Gene expression in development

• PETER J. FORD

Einstein in crisis?

• P. C. W. DAVIES

Does the geomagnetic field affect climate?

• PETER J. SMITH

Lymphocytes at war

• A. J. S. DAVIES

Pioneering Jupiter meeting at RAS

• John Gribbin

East African grasses

Ambiguous gravity

• Peter J. Smith

Hedgerow removal and bird life

• Peter D. Moore

Lethal mutants in Drosophila development

• Benjamin Lewin

Transfer of excited alpha particles

• Peter E. Hodgson

Synchrotron radiation users meet

• G. V. Marr

Midwinter sunrise at Newgrange

• J. Patrick

Structure and orientation of an RNA polymerase operon in Escherichia coli

• L. Errington
• R. E. Glass
• J. G. Scaife

Regulation of the expression of the histidine operon in Salmonella typhimurium

• Takashi Kasai

UGA and non-triplet suppressor reading of the genetic code

• J. F. Atkins
• S. Ryce

Narrow-band observations of galactic and extragalactic sources at 1 mm

• P. E. CLEGG
• P. A. R. ADE
• M. ROWAN-ROBINSON

Spontaneous fission on the Ap star HR465

• TERUAKI OHNISHI

Copernicus spectra of β Lyrae

• M. HACK
• J. B. HUTCHINGS
• R. S. POLIDAN

Behaviour of Comet Kohoutek (1973f)

• D. A. MENDIS
• W-H. IP

Monotonic evolution of Boltzmann's H in weakly coupled gravitational systems

• M. J. HAGGERTY
• G. SEVERNE

Sound wave modulation of auroral X rays

• A. F. WICKERSHAM JUN.

Five-year climatic trend in the Northern Hemisphere

• C. L. HAWSON

Five-year climatic trend in the Northern Hemisphere (reply)

• VICTOR P. STARR
• ABRAHAM H. OORT

Frictional constraints on thrust, wrench and normal faults

• RICHARD H. SIBSON

Marscoite and the origin of andesites

• N. M. S. ROCK

Possible thermal explanation of contrasting Archean and Proterozoic geological regimes

• D. F. STRONG
• R. K. STEVENS

Pseudo-holography using scattered X rays

• RICHARD G. SIDER
• EDWARD S. KENNEY
• ALAN M. JACOBS

Tight binding of RNA polymerase to rDNA genes in E. coli

• ANDOR UDVARDY
• JÁNOS SUMEGI
• PÁL VENETIANER

Probable linkage of LCAT locus in man to the α haptoglobin locus on chromosome 16

• P. TEISBERG
• E. GJONE

Photoreactivation of sister chromatid exchanges induced by ultraviolet irradiation

• HATAO KATO

Molecular basis of control of mitotic cell division in eukaryotes

• E. M. BRADBURY
• R. J. INGLIS
• T. A. LANGAN

Inhibitor of protein synthesis isolated from ribosomes of unfertilised eggs and embryos of sea urchins

• MERRILL B. HILLE

Stability of the nucleoside composition of tRNA during biological ageing of mice and mosquitoes

• JERALD L. HOFFMAN
• MARTHA T. MCCOY

Relationship between tritiated poly-L-lysine binding and template activity of human chromosomes

• S. P. MARFEY
• M. G. LI

Lac repressor can be fused to β-galactosidase

• B. MüLLER-HILL
• J. KANIA

Mutagenicity of amino acid analogues in eukaryotes

• PHILIPPA TALMUD
• D. LEWIS

Naturally occurring cytotoxic anti-tumour antibodies in sera of congenitally athymic (nude) mice

• W. JOHN MARTIN
• SUE ELLEN MARTIN

Homology between human breast tumour RNA and mouse mammary tumour virus genome

• AKHIL B. VAIDYA
• MAURICE M. BLACK
• DAN H. MOORE

Levamisole inactive in treatment of four animal tumours

• C. W. POTTER
• I. CARR
• V. M. RICHARDSON

Embryo-derived teratocarcinomas elicit splenomegaly in syngeneic host

• IVAN DAMJANOV
• DAVOR SOLTER

Immunisation of marmoset monkeys with a killed oncogenic herpesvirus

• R. LAUFS

Involvement of IgE in con A-induced histamine release from human basophils in vitro

• ALBERT M. MAGRO

Possible role for the Fc receptor on B lymphocytes

• RANJAN RAMASAMY
• ALAN MUNRO
• CESAR MILSTEIN

Con A differentiates among grass pollens by binding specifically to wall glycoproteins and carbohydrates

• L. WATSON
• R. B. KNOX
• E. H. CREASER

Absence of adenine nucleotide release from autonomic ganglion

• A. C. KATO
• H. S. KATZ
• B. COLLIER

Pattern of remyelination in the CNS

• W. F. BLAKEMORE

Effect of intracellular lithium on snail neurones

• L. DONALD PARTRIDGE
• R. C. THOMAS

Periodicity in high sulphur proteins from wool

• L. S. SWART
• D. PARRIS

Platelet-activating factor, a new mediator of anaphylaxis and immune complex deposition from rabbit and human basophils

• J. BENVENISTE

Organochlorine residues, eggshell thinning and hatching success in British sparrowhawks

• I. NEWTON
• J. BOGAN

Species diversity in temperate and tropical Ichneumonidae

• D. F. OWEN
• JENNIFER OWEN

Role of antennae of the dragonfly Orthetrum cancellatum in flight control

• M. GEWECKE
• H.-G. HEINZEL
• J. PHILIPPEN

Evidence for a gene-specific RNA determining resistance in wheat to stem rust

• R. ROHRINGER
• N. K. HOWES
• D. J. SAMBORSKI

Virus-like particles in Leishmania parasites

• D. H. MOLYNEUX

Devastation of a fringing coral reef by Acanthaster

• N. V. C. POLUNIN

Rats learning to work for alcohol

• J. D. SINCLAIR

Time as heard in speech and music

• H. W. M. LUNNEY

‘Spatial oscillations’ in the Zhabotinskii reaction

• DOUGLAS H. MCQUEEN

Structure of water in porous glass

• GEORGES BELFORT

Structure of water in porous glass (reply)

• ROBERTS

IQ and race

• J. J. D. GREENWOOD

IQ and race (reply)

• TIZARD

Is the slow worm a Batesian mimic?

• R. A. AVERY

Is the slow worm a Batesian mimic? (reply)

• SMITH

Silent alleles and haploid expression in deficiency mapping

• J. H. EDWARDS

Muscle cross-reinnervation

• HERBERT YELLIN

Muscle cross-reinnervation (reply)

• A. G. WEEDS
• D. R. TRENTHAM
• A. J. BULLER

Mathematics of the Universe

• ROGER PENROSE

Food manufacture

• MAGNUS PYKE

Reactions at electrodes

• C. M. ELSON

Cultured plants

• HARRY SMITH

Big game ecology

• D. MICHAEL STODDART

Rho–sigma relations

• V. GOLD

Quantum mechanics

• E. J. SQUIRES

Condensed matter

• J. A. VENABLES

Dirty air

• R. PERRY