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Brazil and Sudan

File is an audio reel containing an episode of Wired for Freedom, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Brazil, and an amputation in Sudan. The episode was recorded on May 7, 1988, and was broadcasted on May 10, 1988.

Childhood photographs of Marq de Villiers

File contains a photograph of Marq de Villiers as a small child, wearing a pith helmet and holding a sand shovel, and a photograph marked on the back with "Marq's oupa [grandfather] looking at the dam [with] Terry and Jennifer, Leo's children." On Marq's website, this image appears with the caption: "With grandfather and sister, surveying the state of the world’s water, 1944."

Colonial office correspondence

File consists of handwritten notes on correspondence between the Colonial Office in London, England, and administrative officials including Frederick Lugard and Charles Lindsay Temple. The notes were compiled from correspondence from the Public Record Office by James Morrison during the 1970's in Nigeria.

Conflict and development in the Horn of Africa

File is an audio reel that contains an episode of From a Different Perspective, a radio program broadcast on CKDU 97.5. This episode is on conflict and development in the Horn of Africa. The episode was rebroadcast July 13, 1988 on The Evening Affair, a CKDU radio program on public affairs.

Conflict and development in the Horn of Africa

File is an audio reel that contains an episode of From a Different Perspective, a radio program broadcast on CKDU 97.5. This file is on conflict and development in the Horn of Africa. It aired 1990 and was rebroadcast September 5, 1990 on The Evening Affair, CKDU's evening public affairs program.

Contact information Nigeria

File contains catalogue cards that are filled with handwritten contact information related to James Morrison's thesis on the Jos Plateau. The cards contain contact information of individuals in Nigeria. The file also contains a commercial card for a Chief Pilot: Captain Vernon M Tyron located in Jos Plateau.

Contact information other countries

File contains catalogue cards that are filled with handwritten contact information related to James Morrison's thesis on the Jos Plateau. The cards contain contact information of individuals from countries outside of Nigeria.

Correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and Egyptian academics and government officials

File contains correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and various Egyptian organizations, government agencies, and individuals, including Professor Abdel-Latif, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology; Dr. Sayed H. Sharaf El-Din, Alexandria University; Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Minister of Foreign Affairs). Topics of discussion include the Perestroika project, seabed mining, and the work of the International Ocean Institute (IOI).

Correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and Indian Officials

File contains correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and various Indian individuals, organizations, government officials, and universities, including (among others): Indian Institute of Management (R.S. Ganapathy); Government of India (including Rajiv Gandhi, Department of Ocean Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of External Affairs, Fish Survey of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, National Institute of Oceanography); Centre for Science and Technology; Society for Indian Ocean Studies; Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Limited; Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee; South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission; the Indian Society of International Law; Confederation of Indian Industry; Dr. K.T. Damodaran; V.V.R. Varadachari; S.P. Jagota; Asim Kumar Mazumdar; Dr. V.S. Raju; Dr. V.K. Gaur; T.P. Sreenivasan; P.K. Jha; Prime Minister Narasima Rao; C.S. George; Azhar Shamim Zaidi; R.K. Sharma; Prasada Rao; Ambassador Wynn Lwin; Dr. Nehchal Sandhu; Professor Stish Chandra; and Krishan Saigal. Also includes correspondence and a speech from future Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Some correspondence concerns Training Programme, India's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), conferences, publications, and other matters. File also Includes a copy of a paper Mann Borgese wrote for a seminar on Indian Rim countries; Mann Borgese's comments on the paper "Law of the Sea" by Hedda Moeller; brochures; conference materials; an abstract ("Ocean Energy"); newsletters; announcements; a syllabus for an IOI course; and promotional material.

Correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and IOI Headquarters vol. VII

File contains correspondence with and documents from the International Ocean Institute (IOI) headquarters in Malta. Topics of discussion include the Danielle de St. Jorre scholarship, Elisabeth Mann Borgese's death, the insurance industry project, the UN agreement on the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, new IOI operational centres, the IOI-Virtual University (IOI-VU), the appointment of a new Executive Director of the IOI, Pacem in Maribus (PIM) convocation, and new IOI Board members. Includes proposals ("Integrating Risk Reduction in Integrated Coastal Management); reports ("Highlights of Developments and Actions since December 2000"); meeting agendas and minutes (of the IOI's Executive Committee); and a memorandum of understanding (regarding the establishment of an IOI operational centre in Germany).

Correspondence concerning "Encyclopaedia Universalis"

File contains correspondence with Claude Gregory, John Dodge, F. Weizsacker, Jean R. de Salis, John Kendrew, P. Kapitza, Salvatore Quasimodo, Daniele Bovet, Georg Likacs, D. Lavergne, Linus Pauling, S. Radhakrishnan, C.F. Weizsacker, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Forbes, Robert Hutchins, and Theodor Svedberg. Correspondence mainly includes invitations to join the Encyclopedia Universalis' project. Also includes comments written about the encyclopedia by Marcello Colocci (on the "Physics" and "Chemistry" pieces) and Guiseppe Barbreri (on the "Geography" section). Contains English, Italian, and German correspondence.
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