My Old Notebooks

I've not discarded my old university notebooks, as I cannot forget the glorious days of my post graduate studies. It looks as if I'll never get back those golden days, when only knowledge and discovery mattered and nothing else.

Today, I opened one of those notebooks. The funny thing is a few of these notebooks are a collage of lectures of different subjects. There is no continuity in the notes.

In the first few pages, it lists the following types of volcanic rocks:

Andesite, Apanitic, and Basalt

Next, it lists the texture:
Glassy, Vesicles, Porphry, Pegmatite, Plutonic rocks, Phaneritic, Gabbro, Ultramafic
Diorite, Granite, Rhyolite, Obsidian, Country or Wall Rock, Concordant, Pipes and Necks, Dykes and Sills, Laccolith, Lopoliths, Stock and Batholith, Extrusive, Chilled Margins, Xenoloiths, Clastic sediments

A brief note on sting rays is written in pencil. This is followed by pictures and descriptions of the following animals: Sardine, Echeinesis, Cynoglossus, Mullet (there is a newspaper photo of Erikson with Stephen Graubard), Salamander, Axolotl, Gegenophis, Rhacophorus, Clarias, Necturus, arterial system of a frog, Cobra.

The first part of the notebook ends here. The text then returns its direction. I start reading again.

This part starts with notes on physiology and then moves to two ecology topics, Symbiosis and Mutualism. Mites follow these topics followed by tables on Geological Time Scale, notes comparing Anopheles and Culex mosquitoes, and notes on bed bugs. Notes on the blood group system, ABO, appears after a brief note on ecology. I read with interest these notes with also had info on the Lewis system.

Notes on agricultural pests, a beetle and shoot borer, is followed by Rh-antigen and its inheritance, pests of sugarcane, a list of topics on animal physiology, cytology and genetics, economic zoology, which I assume can be questions related to old question papers.

Embryology comes next, with notes on Modulations, ooplasm, evocation, and names of two textbooks. I don't remember whether I've read these textbooks. Diagrams on polygenic inheritance of fruits. This section of the note ends after a few blank pages.

I close the notebook, as a dog whines somewhere in the residential lane nearby.