Random Harvest : Biographical Sketches, (Memoir - 60)
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia. 2. Nallari Panduranga Rao. 3. Narayanaswamy Jayaraman. 4. Belur Narayanamurthy Raghunatha Rao. 5. Tumkur Brahmayya Sundara. 6. Sellappa Narayanaswami. 7. B. Vasudeva Murthy. 8. Panganamam Satya (P.S.) Narayana. 9. Prativadibhayankara Narasimhachar Vijaya (P.N.V.) Raghavan. 10. Chandrasekhara Venkata (C.V.) Raman. 11. Bellur Rama Rao. 12. George Everest. 13. Charles Solomon Pichamuthu. 14. Preston Cloud. 15. Birbal Sahni. 16. Anantharaman Parameswaran Subramaniam. 17. Mysore Nanjappa Viswanathiah. 18. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. 19. C. Radhakrishnamurty. 20. William Jones. 21. Charles Vernon Theis. 22. Lakshmeshwar Rama Rao. 23. Pramatha Nath Bose. 24. Yele Mallapa Settaru. 25. Anna Saheb Hazare. 26. Salumarada Thimmaka. 27. Sunderlal Bahuguna. 28. Mandayam Ananthalwar Sreenivasan. 29. Maharajapuram Seetharam Krishnan. 30. William Dixon West. 31. Arthur Holmes. 32. Krishna Kumar Mathur. 33. William Frederick Smeeth. 34. William Smith. 35. Anil Agarwal. 36. Samuel Warren Carey. 37. James Hutton. 38. Pisharoth Raman Pisharoty. 39. Nani Palkhiwala. 40. Kalpana Chawla. 41. Madhav Vittal Kamath. 42. Francis John Pettijohn. 43. Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. 44. John Bicknell Auden. 45. Raja Ramanna.
From the Introduction: "The present companion volume to the \'Random Harvest\' brings together all the biographical sketches, portraits and tributes written by BPR during the same period, on distinguished and outstanding personalities with unique contributions to geology and society.
These editorials may be categorised as follows: (a) portraits of well-known and distinguished earth scientists and scientists of India and other countries; (b) sketches of public figures and benefactors with path-breaking contributions to our society and (c) reminiscences and tributes to close personal associates, friends and colleagues who left a deep impress on BPR by virtue of their special qualities and intimate association with him."
