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### Author
Chopra, Ram Saran (1904-1973), Indian bryologist, born in Chahal Gujranwala, now Pakistan, pioneer in investigations of medicinal plants of India, at the Department of Botany, Panjab University c/o Khalsa College Amritsar (India), collected 1949-1956 in Mussoorie (W. Himalaya) and Darjeeling (E. Himalaya).
**Abbreviated name**: *R.S. Chopra* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.S.Chopra*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection E|E]], also at the Panjab University, further material in [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection DUM|DUM]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Roon p. 27; SBC p. 118; TL-2/3546.
#### Biofile
- Mukerji, B., J. Res. Indian Med. 8(2): 125-130. 1973 (biogr. notes, investigation of medicinal plants in India).
- Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 28. 1966.
#### Outside our period
- (1) *Taxonomy of Indian Mosses*, New Delhi (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) 1975, 40, 631 p., ill., map. *Copy*: MO. – Taxon 25: 506, 1976, A. Touw, Taxon 26: 455-456. 1977 (rev.).
### Publications
##### n.26.143. Notes on Indian hepatics
**Title**
*Notes on Indian hepatics* I-II... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences... 1938. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: *1*. (*South India*): 1938 (mss. rd. 7 Mar 1938), cover-t.p., p. 239-251. *Copy*: Gr-V. Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 7(5), Sec. B: 239-251. 1938.
*2*. (*Sikkim Himalayas and Bengal*): 1938 (mss. rd. 19 Oct 1938), cover-t.p., p. 427-439. *Copy*: Gr-V. – Id.8(6), Sec. B: 427-439. 1938.