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Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Systematic list. 3. Systematic accounts. 4. The list of species recorded from Chamba district which are not illustrated and discussed. 5. Summary. 6. Acknowledgement. 7. References.
Contents: 1. Acrida exaltata walker 1859. 2. Acrida gigantea Herbst 1794. 3. Acrida turrita linnaeus 1758. 4. Phlaeoba infumata brunner von wattenwyl 1893. 5. Phlaeoba panteli bolivar 1902. 6. Choroedocus illustris walker 1870. 7. Choroedocus robustus serville 1839. 8. Pachyacris vinosa walker 1870. 9. Oxyrrhepes obtusa Haan 1842. 10. Xenocatantops humilis humilis serville 1839. 11. Xenocatantops karnyi kirby, 1910. 12. Diabolocatantops innotabilis walker 1870. ...
This is the first volume in the series ‘The Present Revolution in Astronomy’ authored by G Srinivasan.
The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: what are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. It also gives an overview of the topics that will be ...
What will happen to a star when its supply of nuclear energy is exhausted? Will it collapse to a point and disappear from this Universe? Or, is there a new twist to the story? In this book, the second volume of the series ‘The Present Revolution in Astronomy’ authored by G Srinivasan, the story of the life history of the stars is narrated in a lucid manner, with the necessary physics background developed in a systematic fashion. The first part deals ...
