Annual Report 2011-2012 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

EBIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUT
OF PALAEOBOTANY
1946
Annual Report 2011-2012
Museum
The Museum is an integral part of the researches
in the institute holding type and figured specimens.
Besides, Museum repository is a treasure house of fossil
collections made by the scientists. The Museums plays a
pivotal role in popularizing palaeobotanical researches
through participating and organizing exhibitions, Institute’s
celebrations like Science Day and also serve academic
need of various Universities/Colleges/Schools by gifting
away fossil specimens/slides with in India and overseas.
Museum participated in the Science Expo organized by
the Science City, Regional Science Centre, Lucknow from
February 01-05, 2012. The displayed material was
appreciated by many eminent higher officials of Uttar
Pradesh Government and thousands of college students,
teachers and general public visited BSIP display stall. The
outreach of museum activities got widened by such
involvement.
Research material collected by the scientists of
BSIP during the year from 167 localities of the country
under various institutional and sponsored/ collaborative
projects got registered and specimens/slides/compact
discs pertaining to 21 research papers were stored in the
valuable collections of Museum. The Working Cell in the
Museum was utilized by Overseas scientists- Dr. Stephen
McLoughlin, Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish
Natural History Museum, Stockholm, and Mr. Roberto
Innuzzi, Department of Palaeontologia and Stratigraphia
Institute of Geosciences, Rio Grande do sul, Brazil to
study research specimens. Database of BSIP Museum
Locality/field details for the last ten years has been
prepared.
Museum Holdings
Particulars Addition during Total
2011-2012
Type and figured specimens 69 7,731
Type and figured slides 441 14,038
CD/Negatives 18 22
Samples/specimens collected by the scientists
during the field work under various projects:
Project Specimens Samples
Project– 1 - 111
Project– 2 269 113
Project– 3 - 431
Project– 4 1069 82
Project– 5 44 388
Project– 6 - 254
Project– 7 - 7
Project– 9 - 61
Project– 11 - 221
Project– 12 - 857
Project– 13 159 -
Samples deposited under Sponsored/ Collaborative
Projects:
CSIR Net Project No. 9/528 (0016)/ : 67
2009-EMR-1
D.S.T. Project No. SR/S4/ES-264/2007 : 532
D.S.T. Project No. SR/S4/ES-21/ : 26
Brahmaputra-I/2005
Misc. Project. Assessment Based on : 74
New Report
Newly Proposed Project on Palaeozoic : 74
of Kashmir
(Specimens)
Specimens / Slides gifted
Science City, Regional Science Centre, Aliganj, Lucknow
(UP)
R.L.B. Memorial Senior Secondary School, Survodaya
Nagar, Lucknow (UP)
Department of Botany, U.P. College, Varanasi (UP)
Department of Botany, St. Barchmans College,
Changanachesery, Kottayam (Kerala)
Dr. D.S.N. Raju, Pragati Marg, J.N. Road, Rajahmundry
(Andhra Pradesh)
Sri C. Narasimha, 46- Searle Street, Auckland 1072, New
Zealand
Prof. Sun Ge, Palaeontological Museum of Liaoning,
University of Shenyang, China
Institutional Visitors
Forest Training Institute Trainees, Kanpur, UP (visited three times)
CST M.P. Bhopal- group of students and teachers
Department of Botany, D.N P.G. College, Meerut, UP (Faculty &
Students)
Department of Botany, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, MP (Faculty &
Students)
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP (Faculty & Students)
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