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Correspondence regarding preparations fora trip to India by Haldane and Helen Spurway at the invitation of the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress. Haldane gave a lecture tour and series of discussions at various institutions in India during December 1951 - January 1952.
 
Primary correspondents are: V K Krishna Menon, High Commissioner for India; B Mukerji of the Indian Science Congress Association; P C Mahalanobis of the Indian Statistical Institute and R A L Gonet of the Indian High Commission.
 
Other correspondents include Ifor Evans, UCL Provost; Air India International; S Patuk of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission; M N Saha of the Institute of Nuclear Physics; Sir Shanti S Bhatnagar of the Central Secretariat; Claus A Moser and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India.

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