> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 44](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264733) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10370960) QID Q10370960 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Agharkar, Shankar Purusottum (1884-1960), Indian botanist (Bombay born), educated at Ratnagiri and Dhawar, from 1901-1909 at the University of Bombay, B.A. 1906, M.A. botany, zoology and geology 1908, lecturer and head of the Biology Department of Elphinston College Bombay 1910-1913, at the Indian Museum Calcutta 1911-early 1914, Ghosh professor of botany at the University of Calcutta 1913, studied at the University of Berlin with A. Engler 1914, temporarily interned 1914- 1917, again with Engler et al. 1917-1919, Dr. phil. Univ. Berlin December 1919, visited the major European herbaria 1920 obtaining a basis for the herbarium CAL, from July 1919 at the Botany Dept. of Calcutta University until 1946, from then on resident at Poona. **Abbreviated name**: *Agharkar* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CAL|CAL]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 20; IH 2: 28. #### Biofile - Agharkar, S., Verbr.-Mitt. Xerophyt. p. 42. 1920 ("Lebenslauf"). - Chatterjee, D., Sci. and Cult. 26: 173-174. 1960 (portr., obit. not.); Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal 12: 1-5. 1958 \[issued 1961\] (portr., obit.). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 1984, no. 410a. - Kundu, B.C., Taxon 11(7): 209-211. 1962 (biogr., bibl., b. 18 Nov 1884, d. 9 Sep 1960) (see also Fl. males. Bull. 18: 970. 1963). - Mahabalé, T.S., J. Ind. Bot. Soc. 40: 131-134. 1961 (portr.). - Navalkar, B.S., J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 57: 635-636. 1960 (1961). #### Festschrift Mahabalé, T.S., ed., Professor S.P. Agharkar commemoration volume, University of Poona, Poona 7: vi, portr., 144 p., 21 Sep 1961; contains a detailed biographical sketch (on p. 1-12) by T.S. Mahabalé and G.T. Tonapi. ### Publications ##### n.18.948. Über die Verbreitungsmittel der Xerophyten **Title** *Über die Verbreitungsmittel der Xerophyten*, Subxerophyten und Halophyten des nordwestlichen Indiens und ihre Herkunft. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde genehmigt von der philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin... Leipzig (Wilhelm Engelmann) 1920. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Verbr.-Mitt. Xerophyt.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 18 Jun 1920 (formal issue in Bot. Jahrb. 56(3), as Beiblatt no. 124; the oral examination for the doctor's degree took place on 27 Nov 1919, the official date of the formal "promotion" was 10 Dec 1919, actual publ. was effected on 18 Jun 1920), cover-t.p., \[i-ii\], \[1\]-41, \[42, Vita\]. *Copy*: B. – Issued also as Bot. Jahrb. 56(3), Beibl. 124. 1920. – The two professors who acted as "Referenten" were A. Engler and G. Haberlandt. A first reference in the literature found by us was ÖBZ Jan-Feb 1921. ##### n.18.949. Charophyta of Bengal **Title** *Charophyta of Bengal*... \[Calcutta\] (Calcutta University Press) 1937. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Balaichand Kundu. *Publ*.: Nov 1937 (mss. completed Mai 1930, sic; copy L inscribed 29 Nov 1937, journal issue registered Nov 1937), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-23, *pl. 1-9* (uncol. draw.). *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Dept. Sci. Calcutta Univ. ser. 2. 1(1): 1-23, *pl. 1-9.* 1937.