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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. August 1952

1952

He became Honorary Secretary of the Society in 1941 and served as Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Trustees of the Natural History Section of the Prince of Wales Museum and as one of the editors of the Journal till his death in 1944. [...] He has also contributed important papers on birds of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions to the Journal including the report on the Vernay Scientific Survey of the Eastern Ghats—written in collaboration with the late Hugh Whistler—which by showing up the many gaps in our knowledge of Indian ornithology led the way to the useful regional bird surveys that have since been sponsored by the Society. [...] In the Museum his services wero invaluable and the galleries of the Natural History Section of the Prince of Wales Museum and the fine range of groups and welmounted exhibits owe much to his skill and ability. [...] It was largely during the run of Prater's editorship that the.Society's journal attained the esteemed position it now enjoys among the scientific periodicals of the world; of course we were fortunate also in our contributors who included an increasing number of workers of distinction in the international field. [...] He brought to fruition the negotiations started by his predecessors regarding the transfer of financial responsibility for the housing and proper care of the Society's zoological collections from the Society to the Government of Bombay and had the satisfaction of feeling the imminent fulfilment of his labours before leaving India in the detailed plans for the completion and utilization of the bea
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Pages
347
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Frontmatter
i-iii Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Editorial
691-704 Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Deep-Sea Oceanographic Exploration in Indian Waters
705-717 R.B. Sewwll view
The Climate of India
718-733 S.K. Banerji view
The Desert Locust and its Control
734-740 Hem Pruthi, D.R. Bhatia view
Fisheries Research in India
741-765 N. Panikkar view
The History of Indian Mammalogy and Ornithology
766-778 Norman Kinnear view
The History of Bird-Photography in India
779-784 R.S.P. Bates, E.H.N. Lowther view
Photographing Birds with the Highspeed Flash
785-v W.T. Loke view
The Genus Poa Linn. in India
787-838 N.L. Bor view
The Flight of Eagles
839-844 C.H. Donald view
A History of Shikar in India
845-869 R.W. Burton view
Notes on the Genus Salicornia Linn. (Chenopodiaceae)
870-873 Charles McCann view
Mosquito work in India
874-879 Gordon Covell view
Functional Divergence Structural Convergence and Pre-Adaptation Exhibited By the Fishes of the Cyprinoid Family Psilorhynchidae Hora
880-884 Sunder Hora view
Butterfly Collecting in India
885-893 M.A. Blyth view
New Finds of Indian Cucurbitaceae
894-901 H.L. Chakravarty view
Vanishing and Extinct Bird Species of India
902-906 S. Ripley view
The History of Herpetology in India
907-909 Malcolm Smith view
Obituaries W.S. Millard
910-913 Norman Kinnear view
Obituaries E.H.N. Lowther
913-914 R.S.P.B. view
My India
915-917 R.W.B. view
The Pheasants of the World
917-920 S.A. view
Pharmacognosy of Ayurvedic Drugs of Travancore-Cochin
920-921 H. Santapau view
Head and Thorax of Stenobracon Deesae
921-921 S. Mahdihassan view
The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon
921-923 M.J. Hackney view
The Story of Animal Life
923-925 D.E.R. view
Additions to the Society’s Library Since January 1952
925-926 Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Miscellaneous Notes
927-961 R.W. Burton view
Notes & News
962-964 Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Notice to Contributors
965-965 Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view
Backmatter
i-i Salim Ali, S.B. Setna, H. Santapau view

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