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PROF. SHANKAR PURUSOTTAM AGHARKAR, of the University College of Science, Calcutta, has retired after thirty-two years of service. Prof. Agharkar was appointed Ghose professor of botany in 1914 and deputed to Germany for further studies. In Berlin he studied under A. Engler, L. Diels, G. Haberlandt and others and obtained the doctorate of the University in 1919. In the meantime, with the inauguration of the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Calcutta, the pedtial residential building of the late Sir Tarak Nath Palit at Ballygunge was converted into the Biological Laboratory and Prof. Paul Brühl was placed in charge of the Botany Department. He equipped it on a large scale in different branches of botany and initiated research work by students at the University. Prof. Agharkar returned to the University in 1920. In 1929 he took complete charge of the Department after the retirement of Prof. Bruhl. From then onwards, Agharkar succeeded in increasing the number of members of the teaching staff for the different branches of botany, so that to-day facilities for research in mycology, cytogenetics, physiology and palseobotany, etc., are available in the laboratory, and much good work has been published.
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Botany at University College of Science, Calcutta: Prof. S. P. Agharkar. Nature 158, 125 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158125a0
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