Agenda for meeting with ecologists on June 1, 2010.

Consists of the agenda for the 37th meeting of the Narmada Control Authority. Also includes a note of dissent from a member of the Environment sub-group; and an office letter regarding timing of the meeting.

Two copies of an agenda for an ISRO meeting at the headquarters in Bangalore, 13-14/2/1985. Annotation on one states "Info regarding request for rocket collaboration for experiments."

Letter from V.S. Aggarwal to Prem Narain, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, copied to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note on harvest of tomatoes.

Olfactory Behavior of Drosophila melanogaster larvae

Agreement and Rider for commissioning of a work made by Prakash Gole for the New York Zoological Society to be published in Animal Kingdom Magazine about Black-necked Cranes.

Agricultural Research and Education

Agricultural Research and Education as Related to the Creation of a Prosperous India

Agricultural Self-Sufficiency

Agriculture and Food Systems

Draft report on 'Agriculture and the age of algeny' by Swaminathan, with handwritten corrections.

Draft report on 'Agriculture and the artificial transmutation of genes' by Swaminathan, with hand-drawn graphs.

Agricultural Department Diary Number 703, dated 25 February 1947, ICAR, regarding the proposal to transfer administrative control of the Central Agricultural Research Insitute to ICAR, based on considerations put forward by M.S. Randhawa in June 1943.

Agriculture Today, M.J. Khan

Telegram offering condolences to Coleman family.

Letter from YR Ahuja at Indian Agriculture Research Institute to Sukumaran thanking him for the tour of ICRI and haemoglobin samples

Letter from P.L. Ahujarai to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes enclosed draft on Environmental Policy Statement.

Letter from P.L. Ahujarai to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes enclosed outline of the discussions held during the Fourth Meeting of the Core Committee on National Conservation Strategy.

Forwards two copies of his book on "viloma ganitha," entited "Raja Ganitham on Osmani Hisab," requests Madhava Rao's help in popularising his methods among the delegates of the 1960 Indian Mathematical Congress due to be held in Chandigarh. Mentions a "viloma ganitha yajna" involving the mental extraction of cube roots to nine significant figues, due to his blindness caused by cataract.

Letter from J.C. Ajmani to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note on retirement.

Letter from A.K Gupta of Punjab Agricultural University discussing the modifications to a manuscript. Contains a copy of the research paper and 2 referee's report forms with handwritten annotations.

Letter from A.K. Venkat Subramanian to Swaminathan regarding meeting with concerned secretaries to discuss projects that can be taken up with the assistance of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).

Letter from Erik Akerbeg to M.S. Swaminathan. Informing the recommendation of The Swedish Seed Association to appoint M.S. Swaminathan as an honorary member of the association.

Programme schedule for the event.

Contains the following: i. Typewritten draft with handwritten annotations of a thesis for the D Sc degree at Dacca University. ii. An application by Akshayananda Bose for the Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Bursaries Scheme. K S Krishnan is mentioned as a scientist prepared to recommend the visit to the laboratories for study.

Convocation address by Swaminathan at the Alagappa University.

Letter from Yoginder K. Alagh to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note on the report of the 'Working Group on Educational Research and Education'.

From Bruce M. Alberts, Editor-in-chief of Science magazine, to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee / The Norwegian Nobel Institute (copy)

Isolation of Two Olfactory Mutations of the Autosomes of Drosophila melanogaster; Intrapopulational variation of Olfactory responses in Drosophila melanogaster

Contains an enquiry about the Alexander von Humboldt scholarship, for post doctoral research grant under the suggestion of Dr J H Schroder, along with a reply letter from Grafin.

Letter from Douglas Alexander to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note on meeting held on 03 September 2009

Correspondence between P.C. Alexander and M.S. Swaminathan on visit to Manila, Philippines.

Current Science

Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, Vol. 187

Letter from Akbar Ali Khan to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes reference to letter dated 16 March 1974.

Letter to N V Joshi with comments about his manuscript. Mentions Santosh.

Contains photograph from an event at the Alibag Magnetic Observatory.

Text of AIR talk on "Parity in Nature," in manuscript and typescript, together with correspondence regarding payment.

Proposal for the release of BC.5-55 and BC.6-66 rice, for the All-India Rice Improvement Workshop, Cuttack, May 1970.

Handwritten draft of the Inaugural Talk by Swaminathan at the All India Summer Institute in Human Nutrition.

Communicates a paper by G.H. Tewari, as well as one of his own, on a conjecture of Ramanujan.

Correspondence between Allen and Pittie regarding range of database and citations on bulbuls.

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’.

Letter from E. Patrick Alleyne to M.S. Swaminathan. Includes note on nomination for the re-election of M.S. Swaminathan as Chairman of the F.A.O. Council.

From Almamy Sylla, Assistant Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, regarding his enriching experience working with Swaminathan.

The document titled "Alphabetical list of scientific periodicals" from the IARI's library contains the list which incorporates annual reviews and advances prepared according to the title of periodicals.

Message from Margaret Alva. Congratulatory message for the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation on its initiative to organize an International Conference on 'Eliminating Hunger and Poverty: Priorities in Global Agricultural Research and Development Agenda'.

A Marathi article by Prakash Gole published in the Diwali special edition of the Marathi magazine Rasik, wherein he discusses whether studies and views of Amartya Sen match with the pattern of development at places like Phaltan.

To Kusala, regarding the dearth of funds in the fiscal year 1993, for providing post-doctoral fellowship by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica.

Correspondence between Pittie and Ambedkar regarding reference of Ambedkar's in Pittie's Bibliography, on the Anatidae of South India

Correspondence between Ambi and K. Swaminathan. Includes enclosed note titled 'Heroic Heart'.