1996-97 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

1996-97
Professor S.Z. Qasim delivering the 42nd Sir Albert Charles Seward Memorial Lecture.
own country as well as USA, Belgium and Australia visited the Institute and Museum. Two
Doctoral degrees were awarded by the Lucknow and Kanpur Universities on the problems
related with Palaeopalynology.
The Institute has published Volume 43, Number 2 and a special Birbal Sahni Institute
of Palaeobotany Golden Jubilee Volume 45 of the journal The Paiaeobo/allisT. The Special
Volume comprises 55 contributions, out of which 20 are specially invited papers and the
remaining 35 papers were presented at the International Conference on "Diversification and
Evolution of Terrestrial Plants in Geological Time" held at Nanjing, China during 1995.
The continuous efforts for the use of computer in Library have enhanced the efficiency
of Library work in literature circulation, documentation, data management, exchange list
and report generation, etc.
The Electronic Data Processing Unit has efficiently composed and designed the
Abstract Volume ofBSIP Golden Jubilee Conference, a bilingual folder and invitation cards
for photo offset printing. Besides, the Postal Stamp was designed which will be released by
the Department of Post and Telegraph for the Golden Jubilee Year of the Institute.
During the 84th Session of Indian Science Congress at Delhi the Institute participated
in the Science and Technology exhibition organised by the Department of Science and
Technology, New Delhi 011 the theme "Computer Network in National Development". The
exhibits were about the Institute Research Activities and Achievements. At this session a
9