This particular collection has various records on Plan and Non Plan Budgets, expenditures incurred, registers maintained by the laboratory, logistical administration records stating the list of equipment that were transported from TIFR in Bombay to Bangalore between 1998-1999 and correspondences regarding the transportation. The collection also includes recommendation letters, various applications to join the laboratory from different students from across the world, and letters of congratulations. One letter in particular is from the Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology to Siddiqi for his constant support. The series has been divided into five sub series and each sub series has been arranged chronologically.

This series has been categorised into five sub series chronologically, also by the categories of different grant organizations. This Series includes collaboration proposals, utilization certificates, progress reports on molecular biology of olfactory reception in Drosophila, letters on transfer of grants and Application Records of various Applicants.

This series has been divided into 10 sub series, each highlighting information stored on various experimental and non-experimental data. Includes T-trap and glass trap tests conducted by different students between 2002-2012, waveform tests and single fly olfaction tests, larval plate tests, patch clamp results and other experimental data. Early reference to E. coli and supporting research material that contains fluorescence photographs are part of this collection. In addition, some individual student files and student notebooks have also been compiled.

This series has been categorized into four Sub Series and largely constitutes student contribution to research starting with students at a Master's level to Post-docs. Various work and lab reports starting from 1999 have been included. The series sheds light on research around Drosophila melanogaster pertaining to memory and learning in larvae, mechanisms and behaviour, binary odour mixture perceptions, electroshock conditioning, genetic and molecular biological studies on olfaction and the study of olfactory. The student research material was found in large volumes in the laboratory. Some Notebooks, Research Papers, Project Reports may not have been included in the catalogue; but to give a sense of the kind of work that was done and recorded by students, some samples based on names ranging from – Veronica Rodrigues, Sanjay Tickoo, Tuhin Chakraborty, Mohammed Bin Abu Baker, Deepti Trivedi, have been included in the archives catalogue.

The oldest instruction manual in this series dates back to 1972. It is an instruction manual of the Electronics Corporation of India Limited. This series contains, instruction manuals of various equipment used by the laboratory between 1972 to 1999. One of the rarities in this series is a handbook published by National Geographic in 1986 on a smell survey. This ascertains a critical understanding for the importance of this laboratory as this was the largest smell survey conducted by National Geographic Society and the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia. This survey was conducted on 1.4 million people worldwide, that consisted of a scratch and sniff test that required detection, identification and rate of intensity and perceived pleasantness on 6 odorants.

This series contains material found in the laboratory. One is a newspaper clipping on Siddiqi's career. Other materials include NCBS Students guidelines, Storage catalogue, a few posters found in the laboratory.

This series has been divided in two sub series that deal with published and unpublished reference books and the other sub series deals with reprints found at the laboratory.