Satya Churn Law (also transcribed as Satya Charan Law or in Bengali Satyacharan Laha) (1888 – 11 December 1984) was a wealthy naturalist, amateur ornithologist, educationist and intellectual in Calcutta.[1]

1938 advertisement for Prakriti

Law was born to Ambikacharan Laha and Kiranbala Devi at their home on Kailash Bose Street in Calcutta. He was educated at Metropolitan College, and at Presidency College, obtaining a master's degree in history.[2] He then obtained a law degree. He had an interest in bird from an early age and began to keep them and observe them in captivity. He was for a while a treasurer of the Indian Statistical Institute. He established an aviary at this home in Agarpada, near Calcutta in 1926. He was elected 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, in 1924, a journal, Prakriti, in Bengali for the popularization of natural science.[3][4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Edward Shils, Joseph Epstein (1997) Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals. University of Chicago Press, 1997 ISBN 0-226-75336-0. p.78-79
  2. ↑ "Vidyasagar College".
  3. ↑ INSA Deceased Fellow
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Bose, S.C.; Sengupta, Anjali, eds. (2000). সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান [Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan ] (in Bengali). Vol. 1. Calcutta: Sahitya Academy. p. 752. ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6.


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