The correspondents are:
Prof. Talis Bachmann, Joyce Baker, Prof. Dr. hab. Jan Barciszewski, Justin Kaplan (Editor, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations), Martin Baum, Dr. Ursula Bellugi, Juan Carlos Belmonte, Seymour Benzer, Dr. Kurt Benirschke, H. Helmchen (Freie Universität Berlin), Philippe Desmarescaux (BioVision, the World Life Sciences Forum), Dr. Ewan Birney, Prof. Colin Blakemore, Dr. Casey Blood, Dr. David Blow, Steven Bodovitz, István Bókkon, Mick Bondello, Prof. Gustav Born, Lord Janner of Braunstone, Sydney Brenner, Prof. Mark Bretscher, Norman Brindo-Vas, Prof. Jan Charles Biro, Antony Barrington Brown, D. W. Brown, and Ted Bullock.
Also includes a booklet celebrating 25 years of the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, memories of Leslie Barnett, information on artwork by Lynda Benglis, correspondence with Prof. Alexander Varshavsky concerning the nomination of Seymour Benzer for the 2002 Balzan Prize in Developmental Biology, information about the 2004 Bower Awards, and invitiations to a Reception at Buckingham Palace, 2003, the Queen's Garden Party, 2002, and a Centenary Service for Members of the Order of Merit.