INTRODUCTION                       

The latest venture of the Biology students of the Rahula College is Tour on Bio, the Biological Exhibition and Conference. This exhibition covers several areas in Biology including Bio-diversity and Natural  Beauty, Applied Biology, Nature Collection and Tissue Paradise. It also has practical demonstrations about Physics and Chemistry  which would be of utmost value to the Science- learning students. Conferences about several aspects of Biology are also scheduled.

The organizers of the exhibition and the conferences say, that this has been a dream for them for a long period and at last it has become a reality. They said, "Our main objective is to enhance the knowledge of science students, so we have invited many schools in the area to be present at the event. We also wanted to renovate our laboratories, and we did it. We must kindly thank our  teachers concerned who encouraged us in this task."

The exhibition and the conferences are scheduled to be held on 5^th, 6^th and 7^th of July. On the concluding day a special conference on Biology is also scheduled to be held.

Bio-Diversity and Natural Beauty

The exhibition about Bio-diversity and natural beauty covers areas, such as endemic plants and endemic fresh water fish, marine animals of Sri Lanka, Ayurvedic herbs, tissue culture and so on. They also exhibit specifics of reptiles, fish and amphibians.

Dr. L.P.Jayatissa, Senior lecturer of the Botany Faculty of University of Ruhuna and Mrs. Hemantha Wegiriya, Senior lecturer of Zoology Faculty, UOR were present in the ceremony. They each gave lectures about flora  and fauna bio-diversity respectively.

Tissue Paradise This section covers the area of human tissues. Full demonstrations of everything on human tissues and their images are displayed here. Special animations have been created on the subject. A lecture is scheduled to be held tomorrow(6th) on tissues. A CD has been created by the students on this area with all the information of human tissues. A special feature of the CD is that it includes microscopic photos. The CD is available for anyone who is interested.

Applied Biology A fully comprehensive section of exhibits is available in this section. It also includes a section about Microbiology and Fisheries which exhibits many instruments and other concerned things of the fisheries industry. "Functional animal", a main unit in the biology syllabus has been covered successfully.

Nature Collection This is another part of the exhibition which you may undoubtedly get fond of. Clear and accurate descriptions about some species and some collections of insects, butterflies, etc. are exhibited here. The students have bought a number of sceneries on Natural beauty and they're going to donate them to the school library with some books.