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RBSI ..my late father's Ph.D guide Dr. R.R. Gates became an anthropologist by 1940 . I read somewhere that he spent time in India circa 1940 doing extensive field work on some of the tribes of India . Herewith a list of his work : http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/collect/1ga50-1.html I remember he spent the last winter of his life in Calcutta , working in P.C. Mahalanobis' ISI. This was arranged thanks to a good common friend the Cambridge Statistician R.A. Fisher.

Jaacob: I could not send you a message on your Facebook page so I will try here. (I can't figure out how this Facebook works.) Anyway, your father had been associated with some eminent geneticists of the day (1950s). Please tell me if he ever met Lysenko in the Soviet Union, and what were his impressions ? Lysenko, as we know now, did enormous damage to Soviet genetics, almost destroyed it. In science, there has to be total integrity or one makes a fool of himself in history.

Assad ...it 's only by chance that i came upon your message . I really have no idea if he was in contact with Lysenko . However ,serendipitously perhaps , I have in my possession one of his books titled "Soviet Genetics and World Science : Lysenko and the Meaning of Heredity ' by Julian Huxley published by Chatto and Windus , 1949. But then , not being a biologist , its all Greek and Latin to me : it should possibly , make more sense to my sister , a biologist in Ohio. All I know is that he was in very close touch with luminaries like J.B. S Haldane , Dr. D.M. Bose ( Sir J.C.'s nephew ) , Academician A.I. Oparin , Arne Muntzing , Dr. Satyen Bose , Meghnad Saha and Uncle B.D. Nag Chaudhuri . This I am sure of : because as Editor of the 1958 Sir J.C. Bose Centenary Commemorative Volume , he'd received and published articles by many of these people -incl. Dr. Mahalanobis ( my 'Daddoo's ' co -brother ).

Thank you Assad ..I'd like to share a certain perception I have with you if I might ...however i hesitate ,for fear of treading on a corn or two ..

No problem, Jaacob. This is a Group of educated and cultured people, thanks to Subbiah. Please do not hesitate to share your perception with us. I am anxious to know what could it possibly be?