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THE following medal awards of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal were announced at the annual meeting held on February 16 : Barclay Memorial Medal, a biennial award for contributions to medical or biological science with reference to India, to Rai Bahadur K. C. Mehta, principal of Agra College, for his contributions to the study of "Cereal Rusts in India" ; Joy Gobind Law Memorial Medal, a triennial award for contributions to the study of zoology in Asia, to Dr. Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort, professor of zoology in the University of Amsterdam and director of the Zoological Museum at Amsterdam, for his contributions to the study of "Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago" ; Paul Johannes Bruhl Memorial Medal, a triennial award for contributions to the study of Asiatic botany, to Prof. S. R. Bose, professor of botany, Carmichael Medical College, Calcutta, for his original research on polyporin from fungi ; Dr. Bimala Churn Law Gold Medal, an annual award for contributions to Indological studies, to Dr. B. M. Barua, professor of Pali in the University of Calcutta, for his contributions to the study of Buddhism in India ; Sir Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal, a newly instituted biennial award for contributions to Indological researches from the thirteenth century A.D. up to .A.D. 1802, to Sir Panduranga S. S. Pissurlencar, for his contributions to the study of the history of the Marathas and the Deccani Muslim Powers down to the time of Tipu Sultan.
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Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal : Medal Awards. Nature 161, 553 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161553c0
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