Annual Report 2011-2012 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

EBIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUT
Annual Report 2011-2012
Founders’ Day
1946
OF PALAEOBOTANY
The Institute celebrated its Founder- Prof. Birbal
Sahni 120 th birth anniversary on November 14, 2011. On
November 14- the Founders' Day, the Institute's staff and
distinguished guests from other organizations offered
Pushpanjali on the Samadhi
of the Founder Professor
Birbal Sahni, FRS in the
campus. Same day following
Memorial Lectures were
organized:
Prof. V.N. Sergeev of
Geological Institute, Russian
Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia delivered the
‘41st Birbal Sahni Memorial
Lecture’ on the topic-
Cryo genian-Ediaccaran
Transition and the Radial changes in the Biosphere.
Prof. David L. Dilcher, NAS of Department of
Biology and Geology, Indiana University, Bloomington,
USA delivered the '57th Sir
Albert Charles Seward
Memorial Lecture'
entitled- The Evolution of
Flowering Plants.
Prof. S.N. Bhalla,
Chairman, Research
Advisory Council of the
Institute presided over the
function. Many guests and
scientists from outside the
Institute attended the
occasion.
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