Box MS-046 Box 2

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Handwritten notes

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Handwritten notes

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Handwritten notes: English, Latin names, order, family, changes in breeding plumage, breeding season

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Handwritten note: Single page, with translation of names for 32 entries, including leopard, otter, civet, elephant, jackal.

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Handwritten notes in "Loreto Convent" notebook, likely teaching notes for self on general aspects of botany. Includes short section of notes on communities and relation to nature and deities.

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Handwritten notes drawing from V. Ball's research on birds in Chota Nagpur area

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Handwritten notes in "L&T" 1979 annual diary. Includes references to work of PK Sen Gupta and articles in 1969 and 1979 editions of Newsletter for Birdwatchers. Sparsely used diary.

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Hand-drawn ink and colour illustrations of birds, from an envelope (from Gardiner Bump, 1961) with annotations, "CM Inglis", "Birds illustrations", and "check list". Also see MS-046-2-1-1-10 (manuscript with reference to bird illustrations).

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Hand-drawn ink and colour illustrations of birds, from an envelope (from International Union of Conservation of Nature, IUCN, 1972) with annotations, "Illustrations of Birds". Includes birds like Dhanesh and Kathporwa. Also see MS-046-2-1-1-10 (manuscript with reference to bird illustrations).

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Hand-drawn ink and colour illustrations of birds, wrapped in a loose sheet. No bird names listed. Includes a signature "JA". Also see MS-046-2-1-1-10 (manuscript with reference to bird illustrations).

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Hand-drawn in pencil, single page, with 6-7 illustrations of bird-houses

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Handwritten and typed drafts. Two drafts with annotations. Contents list: - Creation of the Earth - How Chotanagpur got its name - The Price of Greed - Lovers turned into birds. - Mounting Terror - How Birds got their Colours - All for a Gram - The Hoopoe and its Tail - The First Flower - Baha - The Golden-Haired Princess - Why the Dove Lays only Two Eggs - The Cock and the Pea - The Bulbul and the Farmer - Wild Buffalo and Sister

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Handwritten draft in pencil. On pre-Aryan histories, Indus Valley Civilization, tribal communities and art in Chota Nagpur. Includes references to Verrier Elwin's work, and others.

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Handwritten draft in ink. On Indian literature. Includes references to Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee.

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Typed draft on kite-flying in India and kite-flying competitions, especially during Jatra festival in Chota Nagpur

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Handwritten draft in pencil and ink on Munda community

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Singhbhum District, Bihar.

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Archival papers relating to the life and work of the ornithologist, Jamal Ara, including correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, field diaries, notebooks, drafts of articles and final copies. Material ranging from 1940s to 1980s, almost all in the form of paper. Some material in Urdu. Volume approx 1 x 1 x 1.5 cubic feet.

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Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society. Vol. XXVII, pp 66-73, December, 1954.

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Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society. Vol. XXVIII, pp 90-98, August, 1956. (Continued from page 15, Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1 and 2, 1956)

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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Vol. 57, No. 2, August, 1960.

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Published in The New Republic

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Archival papers relating to the life and work of the ornithologist, Jamal Ara, including correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, field diaries, notebooks, drafts of articles and final copies. Material ranging from 1940s to 1980s, almost all in the form of paper. Some material in Urdu. Volume approx 1 x 1 x 1.5 cubic feet.

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Archival papers relating to the life and work of the ornithologist, Jamal Ara, including correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, field diaries, notebooks, drafts of articles and final copies. Material ranging from 1940s to 1980s, almost all in the form of paper. Some material in Urdu. Volume approx 1 x 1 x 1.5 cubic feet.

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Author: Right Reverend Richard Dyke Acland, Bishop of Bombay. Published by the Bombay Hospitality Committee, Town Hall, Fort, Bombay. Includes indecipherable signature on cover ('Reynolds'?)

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Reprint in Russian

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The Gujarat Satpuras in Indian Ornitho-Geography: The Highway of Malayan Forms to the Western Ghats. Author: Salim Ali. Published by the Gujarat Research Society. Annotated with a note, "With the author's compliments".

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Inglis, C. M., 1951. Birds of the Duars. Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society. Vol. 25. Includes annotation, "With the author's compliments. C.M. Inglis". [Archivist's note: Inglis wrote over 30 journal articles in this series in the journal. Two reprint sets in Ara's papers].

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Bibliographic listing of "books and a few separates in the library of C.M. Inglis", including over 171 titles. Annotated with a "+" against specific titles, and with "Jamal Ara, 8/4/54".

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The Nesting Habits of the Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis (LINN.) and C. caniceps VIGORS. By R.S.P. Bates. Reprint from Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. 57, No. 2, August 1960.

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Wild Life is Essential to our Welfare. By B. Jagannatha Shetty. Unknown publisher (newspaper)

Scope and Contents Envelope (dated 1973) with compilation of reports of Bombay Natural History Society's Bird Migration Study Project, from ca 1967 - 1972. Sent to members of BNHS. Includes overview of project (ringing of 2,70,294 birds under direction of Salim Ali); cooperation of scientists in India, United States and Russia; note to member of BNHS from Zafar Futehally, Honorary Secretary (Aug 3, 1967) re: bird banding camps at Bharatpur and Eastern India; reports from team members - Jamshed Pandey, Jose...

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Handwritten draft in pencil. Fiction titled 'A World of Men' on the abusive relation of a man against his wife. Includes notes on Indian classical music on the other side of notebook.