Satya Churn Law

Satya Churn Law (alternately transcribed as Satya Charan Law or Satyacharan Laha) (1888 – 11 December 1984) was a wealthy naturalist, amateur ornithologist, educationist and intellectual in Calcutta.[1] He was for a while a treasurer of the Indian Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Member of the British Ornithologists' Union. In 1937, Nirad C. Chaudhuri became his literary assistant.[1] He wrote books on a variety of topics including birds (Pet Birds of Bengal 1923) based on his experience in keeping aviaries. He was a vice president of the Calcutta Zoological Garden for a while. He founded a journal, Prakriti, in Bengali for the popularization of science.[2][3]

References
  1. Edward Shils, Joseph Epstein (1997) Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals. University of Chicago Press, 1997 ISBN 0-226-75336-0. p.78-79
  2. INSA Deceased Fellow
  3. Law, Satya Churn (3 April 2008). "Note on the Occurrence of some hitherto unrecorded Birds in Central and South Bengal". Ibis. 87 (3): 405–408. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1945.tb01372.x.



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