Box MS-019 Box 6

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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Letter containing invitation to join Terborgh's group at Duke University (to where Terborgh was moving), to work on studying the consequences of habitat modification on avian diversity and community structure.

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Letter concerning selection for short-term fellowship at STRI's field station at Barro Colorado Island to study landscape heterogeneity.

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Letter with congratulations on STRI fellowship and invitation to Peru

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Letters to Daniels expressing interest in a potential bird field guide and discussion of its contents, feedback on manuscript drafts, particulars of illustration, maps, production, sales, costs, development of the title, a draft memorandum of agreement leading up to the publishing of "A Field Guide to the Birds of Southwestern India". Includes letters discussing the book's production, change in personnal at OUP, and delayed production.

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Letter with pleasantries and expression of interest in developing a future International Ornithological Congress in India.

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Letters to Ranjit Daniels about invitation to present a plenary lecture at the IOC, letters of congratulation and support, feedback on lecture draft, financial support for travel, and a copy of a letter from Ranjit Daniels enquiring about the status of financial support. Includes a letter of congratulation from Walter Bock as well as a draft document for preparing an invitation when hosting an IOC.

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Letter with pleasantries and thanks for sharing of books on Indian birds, and offer to arrange work at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

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Letter with pleasantries and thanks for sharing of books on Indian birds.

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Regarding of sharing of research papers about amphibians of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Letter seeking suggestions for new Director for their Biological Resources Program.

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Print of email with pleasantries, feedback on the book "A Field Guide to the Birds of Southwestern India", conversation about bird-watching in Bannerghatta and plans to visit Kabini, Bandipur and the western coast, and an enquiry about contact details of Zafar Futehally.

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Letter seeking more candidate details from MSSRF as a follow-up to Swaminathan's nominating of Ranjit Daniels for fellowship of the academy.

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Print of email with feedback on the book "A Field Guide to the Birds of Southwestern India", request for copy of CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) National report, and a mention of Ranjit Daniel's book draft on Salim Ali.

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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Landscapes in Achme-Motigudda, Uttara Kannada district

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Landscapes in Hulathevara Godlu in Aghanashini, Uttara Kannada district

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Landscapes in Methini Ghat, Uttara Kannada district

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Landscapes in Yellapur-Kirvatti, Uttara Kannada district

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Satellite images of Uttara Kannada, north and south

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Landscapes in Uttara Kannada district and miscellanous photographs

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People, communities, festivals in Uttara Kannada district

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Landscapes in Uttara Kannada district, life in the district, and miscellanous images

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People, communities, festivals in Uttara Kannada district

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Landscapes, habitat in Uttara Kannada district

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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Andaman and Nicobar islands - plants, landscapes, general - most photos are from the eastern coast of Great Nicobar Island. Photos of elephants lifting logs, markets and some shots of transit ship are from the Andaman Islands.

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Andaman and Nicobar islands, primarily the eastern coast of Great Nicobar Island

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands, scenes surrounding a ship carrying local goods

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Andaman and Nicobar islands

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Negatives of images of frogs, lizards, crabs, plants, markets and other scenes from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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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Article in the Times of India's Times City supplement on birds as an indicator of change in environment, mentioning Daniels

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Article highlighting report by Daniels and collaborators at Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, on how converting natural forests to plantations has affected endemic birds

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Article in the Deccan Herald on plans for Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary to be restored after floods, mentioning Daniels