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MR. C. E. C. FISCHER, assistant for India at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is to retire shortly. He joined the Herbarium in January 1925, while on furlough preparatory to retirement from the Indian Forest Service, which had been spent mainly in the Madras Presidency. In the same year the death of Mr. J. S. Gamble left the “Flora of the Presidency of Madras” unfinished, and Fischer was charged with the completion of the work. This involved the working out of the seven families of Dicotyledons, the Coniferæ and the whole of the Monocotyledons. As assistant for India in the Herbarium he was also responsible for the identification of material from all parts of the Indian Empire, which during recent years has been mainly from Burma, the Himalayas including Southern Tibet, and the Madras Presidency. On Mr. Fischer's retirement in December, he will be succeeded by Mr. K. N. Kaul, who has already spent nearly six months at Kew. Mr. Kaul is a graduate of the University of Lucknow, where he has worked under Prof. B. Sahni.
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Assistant for India at Kew. Nature 144, 829 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144829a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144829a0