Indira Gandhi Receives First Medal for Conservation
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PrintThe Smithsonian Institution's first Medal for Conservation is awarded posthumously to former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at a New Delhi ceremony. Secretary Emeritus Ripley presented the award to her son, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The medal is presented in recognition of outstanding service to zoological science and conservation.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," April 1986, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January, 1986
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