Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 3alboa, Panama. Coraciiform 

 avifauna of India. 



University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Plumage patterns and speciation in 

 the avian genus "Phylloscopus" (India). 



University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Systematic analysis of honey bees 

 (India). 



University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. Chemical and mechanical 

 communication in termites (India). 



University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota. Comparative breeding ecology 

 of black-bellied terms of South Asia (India). 



University of North Carolina, Morehead City, North Carolina. Sharks and 

 their potential use as a food resource (India). 



University of North Dakota. Reproductive biology and conservation of the 

 mugger crocodile (India). 



Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Generic limits in the Stipeae: the tapa 

 of India and Pakistan. 



ASTROPHYSICS AND EARTH SCIENCES 



Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Geochemical and 

 geochronological studies of selected flood basalt provinces of India; facies 

 characteristics of the modern depositional environments of the east coast of 

 India deltaic complexes. 



National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D. C. Late Quaternary 



geochronology (Egypt). 



University of Rhode Island, Narragansett , Rhode Island. Possible 

 environmental impact of Deccan basalts volcanism at the Cretaceous/Tertiary 

 boundary (India). 



MUSEUM PROGRAMS 



Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exchange of 

 museum personnel with the Pakistan Museum of Natural History. 



Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, New York, New York. Joint 

 programs (India). 



Northwest Institute for Historic Preservation, Pullman, Washington. 

 Stabilization and rehabilitation of historic monuments (Burma). 



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