| Authorised form of name | Sahni; Birbal (1891 - 1949) |
| Dates | 1891 - 1949 |
| Date of birth | 14 November 1891 |
| Date of death | 10/04/1949 |
| Activity | Education:
Central Model School in Lahore, then Government College; BSc from University of Punjhab (1911); attended Emmanuel College Cambridge 1911-1919, ScD (Camb); DSc (London)
Career:
Professor of Botany at Benares and at University of Punjab (1919); Professor of Botany, Lucknow 91921-1949);
Memberships:
FGS; FASB
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/05/1936 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 265-277, plate, by H Hamshaw Thomas
References:
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/240851374 |
| Royal Society code | NA1076 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/003982 | Sahni, Birbal | nd |
| NLB/57/121 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Birbal] Sahni, FRS; The University Benares, India | 24 July 1919 |
| RR/46/90 | Referee's report by Albert Charles Seward, on a paper 'On the Structure of Zygopteris primaria (Cotta) and on the relations between the genera Zygopteris, Etapteris and Botrychioxvlon' by Birbal Sahni | [July 1932] |
| NLB/57/287 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor B [Birbal] Sahni, FRS | 8 October 1919 |
| NLB/57/64 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AC [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS | 10 July 1919 |
| NLB/57/758 | Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor FW [Francis Wall] Oliver, FRS | 30 January 1920 |
| RR/39/109 | Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On Asterochlaenopsis, a new genus of zygopterid tree-ferns from Western Siberia' by Birbal Sahni | [January 1930] |
| NLB/65/615 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS | 29 November 1923 |
| NLB/65/544 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS | 16 November 1923 |
| EC/1936/16 | Sahni, Birbal: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003981 | Sahni, Birbal | nd |
| NLB/57/19 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman FRS, Chairman of the Botany Committee | 2 July 1919 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| RR/29/48 | Referee's report by William Henry Lang, on a paper 'On Tmesipteris Vieillardi, Dangeard, an erect terrestrial species from new caledonia' by Birbal Sahni | November 1923 |
| RR/38/133 | Referee's report by Dukinfield Henry Scott, on a paper 'On Clepsydropsis australis, a zygopterid tree-fern with a Tempskya-like false stem, from the carboniferous rocks of Australia' by Birbal Sahni | 15 February 1928 |
| RR/39/108 | Referee's report by Frederick Ernest Weiss, on a paper 'On Asterochlaenopsis, a new genus of zygopterid tree-ferns from Western Siberia' by Birbal Sahni | [January 1930] |
| RR/38/134 | Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On Clepsydropsis australis, a zygopterid tree-fern with a Tempskya-like false stem, from the carboniferous rocks of Australia' by Birbal Sahni | February 1928 |
| RR/46/89 | Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On the Structure of Zygopteris primaria (Cotta) and on the relations between the genera Zygopteris, Etapteris and Botrychioxvlon' by Birbal Sahni | [July 1932] |
| RR/29/47 | Referee's report by Frederick Orpen Bower, on a paper 'On Tmesipteris Vieillardi, Dangeard, an erect terrestrial species from new caledonia' by Birbal Sahni | October 1923 |