1. Foreword

   • C. N. R. Rao
   • B. M. Deb

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. Anil Bhusan Biswas (1917–1979)

   Announcement Pages: ii - ii

3. Some interesting phase transitions in solids

   • C N R Rao

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 75 - 90

4. Critical point phenomena, heat capacities and the renormalization group theory of fluctuations

   • E S R Gopal

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 91 - 99

5. Use of linear weight factor in real-space renormalization group

   • D Sengupta
   • P K Ghosh

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 101 - 107

6. Structural aspects of alpha-omega transformation in group IV transition metals and alloys

   • Y K Vohra
   • S K Sikka
   • R Chidambaram

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 109 - 117

7. Statistical theories of nematic liquid crystals

   • N V Madhusudana

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 119 - 131

8. The tricritical point — a qualitative overview

   • S Dattagupta

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 133 - 139

9. Thermodynamic analysis of the metal-insulator transitions in V₂O₃ alloy systems

   • J M Honig
   • H V Keer
   • S A Shivashankar

   Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 141 - 156

10. Investigation on schottky diodes on amorphous hydrogenated silicon

    • SM Pietruszko
    • K L Narasimhan
    • S Guha

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 157 - 161

11. ESCA studies of some mixed-valence rare-earth intermetallics

    • B D Padalia
    • Varsha Prabhawalkar
    • R Vijayaraghavan

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 163 - 167

12. Oxide dielectrics

    • E C Subbarao

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 169 - 184

13. Exchange in insulators

    • C M Srivastava

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 185 - 191

14. Correlation between the magnetic properties and the chemical shifts in x-ray absorption spectra of some transition metal compounds

    • Chintamani Mande
    • M Y Apte

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 193 - 199

15. Preparation and characterisation of γ-Fe₂O₃ as tape recording material

    • K Seshan
    • M R Anantharaman
    • D K Chakrabarty

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 201 - 208

16. Antiferromagnetism in the heisenberg hamiltonian

    • C K Majumdar

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 209 - 216

17. Mossbauer and magnetic studies on the system Fe_3−x Ti _x O₄

    • R Nagarajan
    • C R K Murty

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 217 - 224

18. The influence of Cu²⁺ substitution on the magnetic properties of Fe-Zn and Ni-Zn ferrites

    • C M Srivastava
    • M J Patni
    • T T Srinivasan

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 225 - 233

19. Lattice imaging studies on the structure and non-random disorder in SiC crystals

    • S R Singh
    • G Singh

    Biswas Memorial Symposium On The Chemistry And Physics of Solids Pages: 235 - 245