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ACCORDING to Science and Culture (India), of January, Prof. B. C. Kundu, professor of botany in Presidency College, Calcutta, has been appointed director of jute agricultural research, in charge of the Agricultural Research Laboratories, of the Indian Central Jute Committee, at Dacca. Prof. Kundu obtained a first-class master's degree in botany in the University of Calcutta in 1927, being first in order of merit. After a short period of service as a lecturer in botany, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, he took up research work in the University under Prof. S. P. Agharkar, on being awarded the Sir Rash Behary Ghosh research scholarship. He served as a lecturer in botany, Rajshahi College, Bengal, during 1930-37. In the latter year he proceeded to Britain on study leave, and worked under the late Prof. J. B. Priestley, of the University of Leeds, on the fibre plants of India with special reference to their development, growth and structure. He has been serving as a professor of botany in Presidency College, Calcutta, and as honorary lecturer in the University of Calcutta, since 1939: During these years he has been working on jute, sunn hemp, Hibiscus and other fibre-yielding plants and has published a number of papers on these in various journals. As honorary secretary of the Botanical Society of Bengal, he has shown noteworthy powers of organisation.
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Jute Research in India: Prof. B. C. Kundu. Nature 157, 402 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157402b0
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