xe Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII 
peo be fon H of oascnnigeh “s Way he but, once avai are assigned 
egret nkage grou y be traced by means of visible 
Obs which hay i "inked This is she old ettind of using 
panics rahe bat worked on more scientific 
A knowledge of ee aa frequently determines which plants 
are homozygous for a dominant c 
u 
ining two factors of the same linkage group from different parents. 
Failing a parent carrying bo soe factors a cross over is ; tks only possibility 
of the manage type éciniag 
ral linkage groups Pha ve been worked out in rice, the largest of 
which stohaiad twelve or more factors 
The composition of the milk of some United Provinces 
cows and buffaloes throughout their period of a 
—By P.S. ees B. M. mig and P.C Muke 
buifaldes, t oi n throughout pura period eae are tab stl ‘The 
object of the work was to establish a reliable milk standard for th 
In th f individual animals it is s at very “te fluctua- 
tions in composition occur withou appearance of es 
A entry arash of analyses ex gears A over a year 
mix 
change examin The arious empirica faa, ule employed by analy- 
co in deere countries py tested and their applicability to Tridian: milk 
ise 
Observations on the wilt disease of cotton in the Central 
Provinces, India. —By 8. L. Asrexar and D. V. Bat 
(1) Two strains of a Fusarium sp. have been * eionip from wilted 
cotton plants and — Pirie connections with the wilt disease estab- 
lished i in inoculation 
wadtiien-. pe sad see Cephalosporium and Fusarium type of 
spores and chlam amydo-spores, these two strains cae on culture-media 
Pi ‘ i sacl thi 
Ww 
dublado nddeneeetac ties wall. No kind of saci zr however, been 
rve a 
e 
wo strains differ from each other only in one particular, 
the colour cal the sclerotium-like bodies. It is dark blue or bluish green 
in one and whitish or pale-brown in the other 
mh; e behaviour of the two strains media designed to ascer- 
tain their response towards the chief snchiietad lactiebaiies P30;, N and 
20 and towards the plant juices of the susce ceptible Roseum and the 
resistant Buti varieties of cotton was studied. 
a (5) The reputed immunity of the Buri cotton was tested and con- 
rm 
(6) An Pie on dels ascertain if the wilting of the ten plant was 
due to any toxins sinseted by the fungus gave negative res 
) The opened of different suggested methods ee eating with 
the gas in the field is discussed in the light of the observations 
recor 
A preliminary ee earn of the wild rices of the Central 
ovinces and Berar.—By 8S. C. Roy 
The ec economic importance of the study of wild rices is twofold: (i) 
they form an important weed in the rice growing areas of the Central 
