Kamala Roy - Bethune Collegiate School at Calcutta in 1932. Married Dr. Dhirendra N. Roy, Professor in the University of the Philippines, Manila, and went to Manila with him. At Manila she immediately entered the University of the Philippines and began to specialise in science. In 1936 she obtained the B.Sc. degree with a major in Botany. In this University she took some special graduate couises. in alga' under the instruction of Prof. H. H. Bartlett, Chairman of the Department of Botany , University of Michigan, U. S. A., who came there as an exchange professor. Next she visited with her husband China and Japan and finally came to Europe. At Paris she began her postgraduate researches in the cytology of algae under the guidance of Prof. Pierre Allorge, Director of the Laboratoire de Cryptogamie of the National Museum of Natural History and President of the French Botanical Association. She has recently finished writing her thesis'. It has been accepted for her Doctorate degiee (D.Sc.) at the University of Montpellier. The title of her thesis is “Rechcrches sur la Structure du Xoyau Quiescent et sur les Mitoses Somatiquse de Quelques Fucacees” It has been published in the Revue Algologique, Pans.