Box MS-019 Box 3

Content Description From the Collection: The Collection primarily includes research material related to birds, herpetofauna, fish, insects, vertebrates and flora in India – the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – and Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This largely takes the form of field notes, sketchbooks, book-drafts, illustrations, photos, slides, maps, graphs, transparencies, and hundreds of index cards detailing information about birds in the Uttara Kannada region (including local...

Content Description From the Collection: The Collection primarily includes research material related to birds, herpetofauna, fish, insects, vertebrates and flora in India – the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – and Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This largely takes the form of field notes, sketchbooks, book-drafts, illustrations, photos, slides, maps, graphs, transparencies, and hundreds of index cards detailing information about birds in the Uttara Kannada region (including local...

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Literature on birds in Uttara Kannada region, notes

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Reptiles, fishes, mammals, amphibians, birds, compiled from field observations and supplemented with existing literature

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Sample sheets (unfilled forms) used to collect bird data (number of sightings and habitat data)

Content Description From the Collection: The Collection primarily includes research material related to birds, herpetofauna, fish, insects, vertebrates and flora in India – the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – and Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This largely takes the form of field notes, sketchbooks, book-drafts, illustrations, photos, slides, maps, graphs, transparencies, and hundreds of index cards detailing information about birds in the Uttara Kannada region (including local...

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Ilustrations of birds, plants, animals, insects

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Ilustrations of birds, bird notes

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Set of illustrations of fish, largely created for the book Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular India. 70+ pages of original illustrations, some printed copies. Some have numbers that correspond to the book Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular India (Universities Press, 2002).

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Set of illustrations of fish, largely created for the book Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular India. 70+ pages of original illustrations, some printed copies. Some have numbers that correspond to the book Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular India (Universities Press, 2002).

Content Description From the Collection: The Collection primarily includes research material related to birds, herpetofauna, fish, insects, vertebrates and flora in India – the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – and Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This largely takes the form of field notes, sketchbooks, book-drafts, illustrations, photos, slides, maps, graphs, transparencies, and hundreds of index cards detailing information about birds in the Uttara Kannada region (including local...

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"Patterns of Distribution of Vertebrate Diversity on the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve" - Final technical report submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, after the Government of India's reported decision to declare the island a biosphere reserve

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Summary of lectures delivered by Daniels during a summer course on Principles of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability Development in March and April 1998.

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Notes, transparencies used in the lecture "Taking Zoology Education to the Common Man - The Salim Ali Way" on 2001-11-12 at the Zoological Survey of India, Chennai

Content Description From the Collection: The Collection primarily includes research material related to birds, herpetofauna, fish, insects, vertebrates and flora in India – the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands – and Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This largely takes the form of field notes, sketchbooks, book-drafts, illustrations, photos, slides, maps, graphs, transparencies, and hundreds of index cards detailing information about birds in the Uttara Kannada region (including local...

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Draft paper written by Daniels while at the Centre for Ecological Sciences /Centre for Theoretical Studies

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Response to a 1987 Deccan Herald article on vanishing Western Ghat bird species, newspaper cuttings from a column on birds in the Deccan Herald, and a checklist of birds at IISc published in the Times of India.

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Article drafts for column on birds

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Drafts of maps (hand-drawn by Daniels and redrawn by draughstmen), figures, tables, and draft of research paper "Frogs of Barro Colorado Island and the Canal Zone, Panama: Observation on spatial distribution and habitat/microhabitat use".

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Unpublished memoir with photographs about Daniels' time spent in Uttara Kannada district, including descriptions of the landscape, work with collaborators, communities in the region and their customs. This folder includes the first half of the memoir, upto page 20 of the image "plates".

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Unpublished memoir with photographs about Daniels' time spent in Uttara Kannada district, including descriptions of the landscape, work with collaborators, communities in the region and their customs. This folder includes the first half of the memoir, from page 21 of the image "plates" onwards.

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Miscellaneous maps, graphs and plots drawn for Daniels' thesis based on research in Uttara Kannada, some made using a telcom plotter. Original drawings by Daniels are rendered here by draughtsmen at IISc.