Certificate for the Bharati Samman Deshratna Award conferred on Swaminathan on 15 August 2001.

Letter from P.M. Bhargava to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes enclosed letter to Rajiv Gandhi and note titled 'The race to map the human genome'.

Letter to Pittie requesting him to write accounts of persons and conservation gains for his chapter on history of Conservation.

Letter from M.K. Bhashyam to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note of appreciation on receiving the 'Prince of Asturias Award for Concord.'

Reply to Madhava Rao's letter dated 24 October 1934 regarding his intention to purchase a six inch equatorial telescope for Central College, Bangalore. Bhaskaran requests the instrument's specifications and a photo, prior to forwarding instructions for its erection and adjustment.

Letter to N V Joshi introducing the International Journal of Energy.

Photos of Siddiqi receiving the Bhatnagar award in 1976.

Letter from P.S. Bhatnagar to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note of appreciation on receiving the 'Prince of Asturias Award for Concord.'

Letter from Pittie replying to Bhatnagar’s query regarding author of Phoenicopterus ruber (described by Linneaus) (see also: MS-020-3-1-2-43)

Letter from Ela R. Bhatt to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note of appreciation on receipt of Padma Bhushan.

Letter from Pittie regarding meaning of an Assamese word for his paper on scientific bird names.

Contains instructions from the convenor of the sixth annual conference of the Environmental Mutagen Society of India (EMSI).

Letter to N V Joshi regarding review of Asutosh Mookerjee's diary in Current Science. Enclosed is also an article on the internal chemistry of BARC.

i. Contains a letter written to the Director General of the Anthropological Survey of India with a list of local names of lineage in the communities of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Goa. Also contains a letter to Madhav Gadgil with details about the long-term collaboration between the Centre of Ecological Sciences and the Anthropological Survey of India regarding the 'People of India' project. ii. Contains a letter to Madhav Gadgil regarding the use of 'People of India' data.

Responds to comments made in a reviewer report of his PhD thesis submitted to Calcutta University, entitled "On Ship Waves and Wave Resistance," requests a copy of the report, speculates as to the possibility of experimentally verifying results at the Naval Architecture Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and further requests references on Japanese and Soviet work on ship resistance.

Negligible male gene flow across ethnic boundaries in India , revealed by analysis of Y Chromosomal DNA polymorphism

Contains 8 photographs of 15.3 cm by 10 cm, 1 photograph of 21.7 cm by 15.2 cm, and 1 photograph of 15.3 cm by 10.2 cm. The folder also contains 7 A4 sheets with diagrams. Images of people, landscapes, trenching, field investigations, and section cutting.

Contains 20 photographs of 15.2 cm by 10 cm. Images of people, animals, landscapes, buildings, rock formations, sand formations, and field investigations.

Contains 20 photographs of 15.2 cm by 10 cm. Images of people, landscapes, buildings, rock formations, sand formations, and field investigations.

Contains 4 photographs of 15.2 cm by 10 cm and 1 photograph of 17.7 cm by 12.6 cm. Images of landscapes, people, buildings, and field investigations.

Study of Olfactory Response in the Larvae of Drosophila-- Experimental Report

Correspondence between Bhushan and Pittie regarding various bird conservation matters. Topics include bird conservation around Hyderabad; the Journal of Indian Bird Records and Conversation; archiving the Pitta or Mayura; confirmation of Eastern Ghats survey locations districtwise; and Treron pompadora presence in the Eastern Ghats.

Primary Data Mutants

Primary Data Wild Type

Study of olfactory conditioning in Drosophila melanogaster

Lab report and single fly test. Primary data

Bills for the purchase of chemicals and lab equipment and airfreighted expenses for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project at IARI sent to UNDP. Additionally, it includes a research paper on "Mutation Breeding in Rice".

Statements and bills for the purchase of chemicals and lab equipment and airfreighted expenses for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project at IARI sent to UNDP.

Contains 4 contact sheets (36 images/sheet) with corresponding negatives featuring Billy Arjan Singh in Tiger Haven, Uttar Pradesh. Includes photos of conservationist Billy Arjan Singh and helpers with Tara, the tiger, Juilette, Hariet and Prince, the leopards brought up by Singh as well as other wildlife at his farmland in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Resumes of B.S. Madhava Rao over the years

Bioengineering of Crops. Report of the World Bank Panel on Transgenic Crops.

Biofuels and Food Security & Investing in Smallholder Agriculture. Report by the High Level Panel Experts on Food Security and Nutrition.

This series has the book reviews he wrote for Current Science magazine in the similarly titled sub-series. Some of his thoughts and ideas are articulated in the sheets arranged under the ‘Reflection on scientific process’ sub-series. Of particular interest is the one on ‘Morphogenesis: A viewpoint or How does the tulip know it is spring’.

Biographical Note by S. Ramanujam upon election as a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Handwritten draft of a biographical profile on Rao Bahadur B. Venkatesachar.

This series has the book reviews he wrote for Current Science magazine in the similarly titled sub-series. Some of his thoughts and ideas are articulated in the sheets arranged under the ‘Reflection on scientific process’ sub-series. Of particular interest is the one on ‘Morphogenesis: A viewpoint or How does the tulip know it is spring’.

This series contains material related to Dr Sankaran’s research on and off field. It has been further divided into 8 sub-series

Biological Diversity and Global Food Security

This series contains material related to Dr Sankaran’s research on and off field. It has been further divided into 8 sub-series

This series has the book reviews he wrote for Current Science magazine in the similarly titled sub-series. Some of his thoughts and ideas are articulated in the sheets arranged under the ‘Reflection on scientific process’ sub-series. Of particular interest is the one on ‘Morphogenesis: A viewpoint or How does the tulip know it is spring’.

Biotechnology for Asian Agriculture : Public Policy Implications. Asian and Pacific Development Centre.

Biotechnology in Agriculture : A dialogue. Macmillan India Ltd., Madras.

Biotechnology Policy for the Economic Development of Tamil Nadu. Report of the High Power Committee of Experts, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Biotechnology: Reaching the Unreached - an interdisciplinary dialogue: Proceedings No.3, Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development (CRSARD), Madras.