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PROF. P. C.SARBADHIKARI, who succeeds Prof. Agharkar in the Ghose professorship of botany at the University College of Science, Calcutta, is a former pupil d the late Sir John Bretland Farmer, at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, where he obtained the degree of D.Sc. in the University of London and won distinction as a research student. His original work has been mainly cytological, and in this field he has made notable contributions to our knowledge of the life-histories of fungi, ferns and flowering plants. Both as a student and while on leave as a teacher at Colombo he made wide contacts, by working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at the John Innes Horticultural Institution during the time of Bateson, at the Jodrell Laboratory with Miss Digby, and in Paris where he worked under Guillermond. For many years associated with the University of Ceylon, first as a lecturer and later as professor of botany, Sarbadhikari returns with a long and varied experience to the University of Calcutta where he had first graduated quarter of a century ago.
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Botany at University College of Science, Calcutta: Prof. P. C. Sarbadhikari. Nature 158, 125 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158125b0
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