The estimations of lower order $\left(R\right)$$\lambda$ in terms of the sequences $\left\{a_n\right\}$ and $\left\{{\lambda }_n\right\}$ for an entire Dirichlet series $f\left(s\right)={\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }{a}_n{e}^{s\lambda n}$, have been obtained, namely :$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \lambda & =\underset{\left\{{\lambda }_{n_p}\right\}}{max}lim\underset{p\to \infty }{inf}\frac{{\lambda }_{n_p}log{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}}}{log|a_{n_p}{|}^{-1}}\hfill \\ & =\underset{\left\{{\lambda }_{n_p}\right\}}{max}lim\underset{p\to \infty }{inf}\frac{({\lambda }_{n_p}-{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}})log{\lambda }_{n_{p-1}}}{log\left|a_{n_{p-1}}\right|a_{n_p}|}.\hfill \end{array}$$One of these estimations improves considerably the estimations earlier obtained by Rahman (Quart. J. Math. Oxford, (2), 7, 96-99 (1956)) and Juneja and Singh (Math. Ann., 184(1969), 25-29 ).

Let f(z), $z=r{e}^{i\theta }$, be analytic in the finite disc |z| < R. The growth properties of f(z) are studied using the mean values $I_{\delta }\left(r\right)$ and the iterated mean values $N_{\delta ,k}\left(r\right)$ of f(z). A convexity result for the above mean values is obtained and their relative growth is studied using the order and type of f(z).

For entire functions defined by absolutely convergent Dirichlet series, a theorem on their mean values is established which include the results of Kamthan, Juneja and Awasthi.