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PROF. MUNRO FOX1 has recently given an admirable account of the Zoological Survey of India. This department has had a glorious past when viewed in the light of scientific achievements; but as the result of various restrictions of the Central Government in India, its activities during the past fifteen or twenty years have only been a shadow of those which preceded them. Its sister department—the Botanical Survey of India—has also suffered from lack of funds and retrenchment of staff, and at present is in a far worse condition than the Zoological Survey.
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Nature, 159, 865 (1947).
From the available records the year of creation of the Botanical Survey appears to be 1892, but in Science and Culture, 9, 110 (1945) this was given as 1889.
During the last twenty years the late Rev. Blatter and his successor, the Rev. Santapau, have organised another good herbarium of western Indian plants at the St. Xavier's College, Bombay.
A second herbarium was established by Rhind at the Agricultural College, Mandalay, Burma. Unfortunately, both these herbaria at Maymyo and Mandalay were completely destroyed by the Japanese during their occupation of Burma (1942â45).
These were discussed in Science and Culture, 9, 109 (1945).
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CHATTERJEE, D. The Botanical Survey of India. Nature 160, 387–388 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160387a0
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