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Newsletter

June 1999

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The Institute actively partici­pated in the Science and Tech­nology Exhibition-Agrasarorganised on the lawns of IndiaGate, New Delhi, from 3rd to 16th

August 1998. "Achievements inScience and Technology since In­d.ependence and vision forfuture" constituted the theme of

exhibition inaugurated by HisExcellency the Vice Presidentof India Sri Krishna Kant.

Many eminent visitors andcommon people got benefited

r-----.f.lNiNTTHHIISSII5S;SSUEUE:l-.---,• Agrasar• Foundation Day• Founder's Day• Indian Science Congress• National Science Day &

National Technology Day• Lectures

• New Findings• Participation Abroad• Ph.D. Awarded• Medal Awarded

• Forthcoming Events• Other Activities• Hindi Pakhwara

• Appointments/Retirements/Obituary

• BSIP Library Aquisitions

Sri Krishna Kant, Vice President of India and Professor M.M. Joshi, UnionMinister, HRD greeted by Prof. Anshu Kumar Sinha at the BSIP Stall, DST Pavilion

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after VISIt1ng the BSIP panelerected at Department of Scienceand Technology Pavilion.

Foundation DayOn the occasion of Founda­

tion Day on September 10, 1998,the second Jubilee Lecture wasdelivered by Professor D.Balasubramanian, Director ofResearch, Hyderabad Eye Re­search Foundation on the topic"New Biology in the help of OldBotany'. Many guests, prominentcitizens of Lucknow and scien­tists from and outside Institute at­tended the function.

Founder's DaThe Founder's Day was cel­

ebrated at the Institute on

November 14, 1998. Floral

Professor T.V. Desikachary delivering28th Birbal Sahni Memorial Lecture.

Floral tributes.-and Vandana

Prof. D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research, LV Prasad Eye Hospital,Hyderabad, Guest Speaker, Second Jubilee Lecture gracing the dais and

honoured by the Chairman GB, BSIPI@ BSIP NE:W5IEI7ER

Professor S.B. Bhatia delivering 44thSir Albert Charles Seward Memorial

Lecture.

tributes were offered at theSamadhi of Professor BirbalSahni. On this occasion Prof. c.v.Subramanian, Chairman

Governing Body welcomed the

gathering and urged to pursuemultidisciplinary science. Twomemorial lectures were delivered.

Professor T.V. Desikachary,FNA, Former Professor, Centre ofAdvanced Study in Botany, Ma­dras University, Chennai deliv­ered the 28th BL:bal SahniMemorial Lecture on "Some

aspects of Palaeophycologj'. The44th Sir Albert Charles Seward Me­

morial Lecture was delivered byProfessor S.B. Bhatia, FNA,Former Professor of Geology andEmeritus Scientist (CSIR), PunjabUniversity, Chandigarh on "Post­Palaeozoic Charophyta : phylo­genetic, biostratigraphic andpalaeoecologic implicationl'. Thecelebration was graced by distin­guished gathering.

National Science Day Celebrations at Regional Science Centre, Lucknow.

organised jointly with RegionalScience Centre, Lucknow. An

exhibition on evolution throughages at Mahanagar Boys Collegewas also organized.

On May 11, 1999 NationalTechnology Day was celebrated.On this occasion Dr.

Krishnanand Sinha, Project Co­ordinator, Indira GandhiPlanetorium, Lucknow delivere d

a talk on "Quantum leaps inAstronomy" - Courtesy smallconcepts.

~ SOrCE DAY CELtlJK INATIONAL JOINTLY OR6ANISC:e 8[UCKNOW

REGIONAL SC'ENC~Ti~~~~ALAEOB()TANY LUCKN()W

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School children participating in an Art Competition at the Institute and prizedistribution by the Director, BSIP.

National Science Day wascelebrated in the form of a'Science - Week". The theme of

the science day was "Ham essingInfo rm a t ion T ech n.0 logy". Alecture on this theme was

delivered by Professor BharatBhaskar, Indian Institute of

Management, Lucknow. Art com~petition for the school childre nwas organised. An Open Day wasobserved and educational filmswere shown to the visitors.

Sci.ence Quiz, Essay Competitionand other activities were

National Science Day (February 28,"1999) &National Technology Day (May 11, 1999)

Indian Science Congress

The Institute has participatedin the 86th Session of the Indian

Science Congress held at Anna

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Bharat Ratna Dr Abdul Kalam

showing interest in BSIP exhibits.

Dr Manju Sharma greeted byProf Anshu Kumar Sinha.

University ,Chennai from 3td_7th

January, 1999. The theme of thecongress was 'New Biosciences ­opportunities and challenges aswe move into the nextmillennium'. Research

achievements and future goals ofthe Institute were displayed. Alarge number of students, citizensand eminent personnel visited thestall including Bharat RatnaDr Abdul Kalam, DefenceAdvisor, Govt. of India, Dr R.Chidambaram, Chairman,Atomic Energy Commission,Dr V.S. Ramamurthy, Secre­tary, Deptt. of SCience &Technology, Dr Manju Sharma,Secretary, Deptt. ofBiotechnology and others.Institute scientists alsocontributed to the scientificdeliberations.

BSIP NEWJIEI1ER t@ I

Extant Butea fruit

which is a unilocular,

multiovulate angiospermous fruitwith distinct pericarp. It showsresemblance with the extant fruit

of B utea of the family Fabaceae.

Dr. (Mrs) Archana Tripathireports Talcheridium indicum

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gen .et sp. novo from shales inthe coal bearing BarakarFormation of Talcher Coalfield,Orissa, India. It encompasses athin walled ornamented acritarch

cysts showing polar symmetry,commonly have a peripheral,sometimes a meridional fold,

having pylome with an irregularedge at one pole.

Participation AbroadINSA-JSPS International Scien­tific Exchange Programme

Dr (Mrs) Rashmi SrivastavaVisited Japan under INSA-JSPSInternational Scientific ExchangeProgramme for three months

New FindingsDr R.C. Mehrotra and

Dr B.D. Mandaokar

report the occurrenceof an ichnofossil~Te redolites clavatus

Leymerie for the firsttime from theRamrikawn stone

quarry near Aizawl,Mizoram, India. It

belongs to the UpperBhuban Formation of

the Surma Group andis Lower-Middle

Miocene in age. Itspresence indicatesdeltaic environment.

ment of Earth Sciences, The OpenUniversity, Milton Keynes, U.K­"Mid- and Late Cretaceous

climate of Asia and NorthernAlaska using ClAMP Anafysil'.

Dr Mike Widdowson, Depart-.ment of Earth Sciences, The OpenUniversity, Milton Keynes, U.K.-"Stratigraphy and structure ofthe southern Deccan Traps : Achemostratigraphical approach."

Dr (Mrs) }ayasri Banerji reportsan anglOspermous~fossi1 fruit from

'R a j m a h a IIntertrappeanbed, Bihar named

Buteacarpon. . .

sona)orzenszs;

January 1999

Prof. Helmut Wopfner,Emeritus Professor, Applied Ge­

ology, University of Cologne,Germany - "A palaeoclimatictransect for the Late Palaeozoic

from Africa to the Alps - Can itapply to India?'

LecturesTo keep the learning process

going, lectures on various topicalaspects were delivered by emi­nent scientists drawn from

different organisations.

October 1998

Professor Leon Stuchlik­

Director Institute of Botany,Polish Academy of Sciences,Krakow, Poland - "General

information-W. Szafer Instituteof Botany".Mr. W. Granoszewski-Institute

of Botany, Polish Academy ofSciences, Krakow, Poland-"Late

Pleistocene pollen sequence fromEastern Poland'.

November 1998

Professor B.B. Lal-Former

Director General, ArcheologicalSurvey of India, New Delhi-­"New Dimension of IndusCivilization" .

Dr Gene Mapes, Director,Department ofEnvironmentaland Plant Bio­

logy, Ohio Uni­versity, Athens,

Ohio -"Permo-Carbonifero us

Con if e rop hy t e fro m K a n s as,(M".Dr G.W. Rothwell, Department

---- of Environmentaland Plant Bio­

logy, Ohio Uni-I versity, Athens,

Ohio - "Recon­

struction ofplants for the reconstruction offern phylogeny".

December 1998

Professor R.A. Spicer, Depart-

___________ 1(March 27 - June 28, 1998). Dur­ing her stay at Botanical Garden,Tohoku University, Sendai, sheworked on Palaeogene fossilwoods from Fukuoka Prefecture,Kyushu Island with Prof. MifsuoSuzuki.

10th International Gondwana

Symposium, Cape Town,South Africa, June 28-July 4,1998

Dr P.K.Maithy : He contributedtwo papers-Pre - G 0 n dwa n aevents and evolution of Indiansubcontinent as part ofGondwana and Gondwana

structural biological life fro mI ndia before Permian times. DrMaithy also visited South AfricanMuseum, Cape Town, South Af­!lea.

Dr. (Mrs.) Shaila Chandra: Shewas one of the keynote speakerwho presented a paper entitled"Plant colonisation ofGondwana and subsequentspeciation, diversification onGondwana fragments".Dr. (Ms) Jayasri Benerji : Shepresented a paper entitled"Megafloral diversity of UpperGondwana sequence of theRajmahal Basin, India ".

Dr. Shyam C. Srivastava: Heco-chaired the session on

Gondwana flora II and also pre­sented . a paper on"P a laeoclima tic fluctu ati on sduring Triassic of IndiaI'.

Dr. (Ms) Vijaya : She contributeda paper entitled "Palyno-e ve n tstratigraphy in Neocomian ­Aptian palynoflora on IndianPen ins u Ia". She aIso vis i t ed

South African Museum, CapeTown, South Africa.

Dr. K.J. Singh: He presented a

paper entitled "Plant biodiversityin Mahanadi Basin, Indiaduring Gondwana period'.

Visit to France

Dr (Mrs) Vandana Prasad:Spent three months (May-July1998) as a Visiting Scientist at theCentre de Geochimie de La Sur­

face C.N.R.S./ULP, Strasbourg,France and acquired expertise onDispersed Organic Matter studiesthrough transmitted lightmicroscope. These studies wereapplied on Subathu sediments ofMorni Hills, Haryana and Kalakotarea of J & K with a view tointerpret palaeoenviron-ment.Techniques involved in the TEMstudies of palynodebris were alsolearnt.

5th International Symposiumon the Jurassic System,Vancouver, Canada, 16-20 Au­gust, 1998

Dr. (Ms) Vijaya : She presenteddata on the status of nonmarine

Jurassic sediments in theGondwana Sequence on Penin­sular India. She suggestedconcerted efforts to exploreJurassic strata in India forbiostratigraphy.International Scientific Con­

ference on Dichotomy andHomology in NaturalSciences, Tyumen, Russia, 7-12September, 1998.Dr. A.K. Srivastava: He wasnominated as one of the

members of OrganisingCommittee of the Conference. He

presented a paper entitled"Dichotomous developmentpattern in Glossopteridl'. He alsoparticipated in two excursions toTyumen City and KremlinTobolosk.

Mrs Kavita Kumar: She pre­sented a paper entitled "Dichoto­mous and homologous pattern sin catalogueing and classifica­tion of palaeobotanical litera­ture". She also participated in twoexcursions to Tyumen Ci ty andKremlin Tobolosk.

CIMP Symposium and Work­shop, Pisa, Italy, 11-14 Sep­tember, 1998Dr. Archana Tripathi :.Shecontributed on "A new microfossilgenus Talcheridium gen. novofrom the subsurface sediments ofBarakar Formation, TalcherCoalfield, Orissa". Its affinity andage connotations were analysed.She also visited DepartmentaBiologia Vigitela, Universita LaSapilnza, Rome and National His­tory Museum, Pisa.Systematic wood AnatomySymposium of the 7th LatinAmerican Botanical Congress,Mexico, 18-20 October, 1998

Dr. J .S. Guleria : He deliv­ered a keynote address on thetopic "Systematic wood anatomyof fossil trees from the Tertiarysediments of Guatemala, CentralAmerica" New fossil woodrecords from India were dis­cussed. He also visited Prof DavidL. Di1cher at the Florida Museum

of Natural History, University ofFlorida, U.S.A.4th International Conferenceon Biodeterioration of

Cultural Property, 21-25November, 1998 and ydInternational Symposium onConservation and Restoration

of Historical objects and Ar­chitectural Decorations,Tehran, Iran. 29th November ­2nd December 1998

Dr. Asha Gupta: She pre­sented a paper entitled "Fungal

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remains from Tertiary depositsexposed at Sirm a u r, HimachalPradesh, India".

1 4th Himalaya- Karakoram -Ti­bet International Workshop,Kloster Ettal, Germany.,March 24-26, 1999

Professor Anshu Kumar

Sinha: He presented a paper en­titled "Accretion of Terrane inKarako ram micro con ti nen t­

New palaeobotanical andgeochemical data". The datasupported the concept ofaccretion or mosaic tectonics' tothe Karakoram Block. Plant fossil

data from Chhongtash Formationof Karakoram Tethyan zoneestablish Lower Gondwana affin­

ity for rocks of Karakoram.

Re-invitation Programme ofDAAD Fellowship (September­November 1998)

Dr. S.A. J afar : He carriedout research work with Prof. Dr.Hans Peter Luterbacher of Uni­

versity of Tuebingen (2 months)and with Prof. Alexander Volker

Attenbach of University ofMunich (1 month).

Ph.D AwardedRatan Kar : Palynostrati­

graphy of the Gondwana sedi­ments from Ramkola- TatapaniCoalfield, Surguja District,Madhya Pradesh; Lucknow Uni­versity, Lucknow.

A.K. Pokharia : P a Ia e 0 ­

botanical study in Kushan Culture(ca 100-300AD ) at AncientSanghol, Punjab; Lucknow Uni­versity, Lucknow.

E.G. Khare : Studies on

plant fossils from the DeccanIntertrappean sediments of India;Lucknow University, Lucknow.

Shiv Mohan Singh : EarlyPermian flora of Karanpura andBokaro coalfields; LucknowUniversity, Lucknow.

New Editors

Drs. A. Rajanikanth &Mukund Sharma have been

appointed as Assistant Editors ofthe Journal The Palaeobotanistsince 15-02-1999.

Medal Awarded

Dr Chunnilal Khatiyal MedalDr Amit K. Ghosh was

awarded the Dr Chunnilal

Khatiyal Medal for 1998 for thebest piece of research work doneby him during April 1995- March1998 at the Institute under Scien­

tist 'A' category. He was given aMedal and citation on the occa-

.sion of Founder's Day.

Forthcoming EventsInternational Symposium onMultifaceted Aspects of TreeRing Analysis (15-19 N ovem ber,

1999), Birbal Sahni Institute ofPalaeobotany, 53 UniversityRoad, Lucknow - 226 007 (IN­DIA).Phone: 324291,323206,325822,325945.

Fax: 91-0522-381948/374528

E-Mail:bsip@bsip.sirnetd.ernet.inInternational Conference on

Coal Bed Methane: Prospectsand Potentialities (5-6 Novem­

ber, 1999), Geological Survey ofIndia, 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road,Calcutta-700016.

Phone: 0771-254200/254500.249-6976/249-6941-43.

Fax: 0771-254600,033-249-6956.Telex: 021-5967

E-Mail: gecr.engrpr.m.p.inc.in

10th International Palynologi­cal Congress, (June 24-30,2000) N anjing, China

Secretary of the Organising Com­mittee IPC, Nanjing Institute ofGeology & Palaeontology,Academia Senica, 39 East BeijillgRoad, Nanjing 210008 PR ChinaE-Mail: gwliu@jlonline.com

6th Conference of Interna­

tional Organization ofPalaeobotany (IOPC-VI), Ouly31 August 3, 2000)Qinhuangdu, Habei, PR China

Secretary General, IOPC VI,Nanjing Institute of Geology &Palaeontology, 39 East BeijingRoad, Nanjing 210008 PR China

E-Mail: paleobot@publici.ptt.js.en

Other ActivitiesOn the occasion of Indepen­dence Day, 15th August, 1998,various games were organised bythe Staff Welfare Committee.

These include Carom, Chess,

Slow cycling, Slow scootering,

Table Tennis etc. Winners were

awarded by the Head of theIns titu tion.

Institute Garden has won about

seven prizes of merit in differentFlower- Show competitionsorganised by variousorganisations at. Lucknow.Campus Garden has also beenadjudged second in the Districtfor which a Trophy has beenawarded to the Institute.

New Scanning Electron Micro­scope (LEO 430) has beeninstalled.

A coloured Xeroxing Machine(Modi 5799) has been acquired.

Library Hall has been air-condi­tioned.

Renovation of PhotographicUnit and Canteen has been

completed.

Pensioners welfare society ofInstitute was formed (vide Regd.No. 1541/96-97 under the

Presidentship of Dr. K R Surange,Former Director BSIP. It has 46

life members and 10 ordinarymembers. The society aims topromote the welfare of pension­ers, their benefit, health care, In­

come tax and related problems.

The Institute has providedaccommodation and furniture for

the office of the society.

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expired on7.2.1999.

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Dr. Puneet Bisaria,Hindi Translator,w.e.f. 14.8.1998.

Dr H.K. Maheshwari,Scientist 'F', retire dw.e.f.31.1.1999.

Appointments

Sri Suresh C. Bajpai, Regis­trar, relieved on lien for one yearw.e.f. 15.12. 1998 to join the postof Registrar at Baba Saheb BhimRao Am bedkar U niversi ty,Lucknow.

Miss Debi Dutta, Junior Re­search Fellow, DST Sponsore dProject w.e.f. 28.12.1998.

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Geology of Arunachal Pradesh

Geology of Karnataka

Geology of Andhra ~radesh

Geology of Rajasthan

Geology of Kerala

Major tectonic elements of the Indian sub-continent and contiguous area:A Geophysical View

India & Antarctica during the Precambrian

Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeo-environment

Recent advances in Vindhyan Geology

Introduction to Geomorphology

India 1947-1997 : New light on the Indus Civilization

Gas HydratesScience of Consciousness

Understanding the Indian OceanFast Science facts

Glimpses of Indian Ocean

Jagran Varshiki 1998

Coal and Organic Petrology

Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Scientist as consultant building new career opportunities

Evolutionary biology of plants

Changing Earth exploring geology and evolution

Flowers of the Himalaya

Photosy'nthesis : Comprehensive Treatise

Coal-bed Methane and Coal Geology

Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

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Atomic Energy in India 50 yrs.

Geological Evolution of Western Carpathians

World Almanac and book of facts 1998

Ek Aur Kraonch Vadh & Anya Vigyan Kathaye

Back scattered scanning electron microscopy and image analysis of sedimentsand sedimentary rocks

Permo-Triassic events in the eastern Tethys

History of the Australian Vegetation-Cretaceous to Recent

Origins of Algae and their plastids

Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth

Rates of Evolution

Mass Extinctions and their after math

Rifting continents and shifting theoriesWeddell sea tectonics and Gondwana

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