Bolus family
Harry Bolus, English-born South African botanist and explorer (Nottingham, England 28 April 1834 – Oxford, Surrey 25 May 1911) DESCRIBED Dermatobotrys 1890 (Scrophulariaceae) Guthriea 1873 (Achariaceae) Phyllosma 1897 (Rubiaceae) Schlechteria 1897 (Rubiaceae) HONORS Bolusanthus Harms 1906 (Fabaceae) Bolusafra Kuntze 1891 (Fabaceae) Bolusia Bentham 1873 (Fabaceae) Bolusiella Schlechter 1918 (Orchidaceae) Neobolusiella Schlechter 1895 (Orchidaceae) His niece Harriet Margaret Louisa Kensit Bolus, South African botanist (Burgersdorp, Cape Province 31 July 1877 – Cape Town 05 April 1970) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Amphibolia 1971 (Aizoaceae) Berresfordia 1932 (Aizoaceae) Esterhuysenia 1967 (Aizoaceae) Jacobsenia 1954 (Aizoaceae) Leipoldtia 1927 (Aizoaceae) Maughaniella 1961 (Aizoaceae) Namaquantus 1954 (Aizoaceae) Neohenricia 1938 (Aizoaceae) Orthopterum 1927 (Aizoaceae) Ottosonderia 1958 (Aizoaceae) Pillansia 1914 (Iridaceae) Ruschianthus 1960 (Aizoaceae) Skiatophytum 1927 (Aizoaceae) Stayneria 1960 (Aizoaceae) Tritoniopsis 1929 (Iridaceae) Vanheerdea 1992 (Aizoaceae) posthumous Vanzijlia 1927 (Aizoaceae) Wooleya 1960 (Aizoaceae) Species Nearly 1,700 HONORS Phyllobolus N.E. Br 1925 (Aizoaceae)
Biswamoy Biswas
Biswamoy Biswas, Indian ornithologist (Calcutta 02 June 1923 – Calcutta 10 August 1994) DESCRIBED AVIAN TAXA Psittacula roseata 1951 Psittacula roseata roseata 1951 Psittacula roseata juneae 1951 Zoothera citrina amadoni 1951 Dendrocopus mahrattensis pallescens 1951 Treron sphenurus delacouri 1951 Hirundapus cochinchinensis rupchandi 1951 Dendrocopus mahrattensis koelzi 1951 Picus flavinucha marianae 1952 Pteruthius ripleyi 1960 HONORS Biswamoyopterus Saha 1981 (Mammalia, Rodentia)
Bir Bahadur
Bir Bahadur, Indian plant morphologist (05 April 1938 – Authored about 250 papers and 10 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With T. Yugandhar, B. Krishna Babu & N. Ramaswamy. Spectral characteristics of stigmatic exudates in three distylous Rubiaceae. Adv. Pl. Sci. 17(1):23-6, 2004 With C.G.K. Ramanujam, G.V.S. Murthy, S. Goverdhan & T.P. Kalpana. A representative analysis of LM and SEM studies of Jatropha L. pollen (Euphorbiaceae). Geophytology 28(1-2):69, 2000 With J.S. Aburi Raju, K. Rama Das, J.B. Atluri & C.S. Reddi. Sexual system and pollination in distylous Hugonia mystax L. (Linaceae). J. Palyn. 33:185-202, 1997 With R.N. Pratap & N. Ramaswamy. Heterostyly and pollen dimorphism in Reinwardtia indica Dum. (Linaceae). J. Palyn. 32:67-77, 1996 With K. Venkateshwarlu. Studies on seed and spermoderm character in Solaneae (Solanaceae). Adv. Plant Reprod. Biol. (1995) With R.K.R. Reddy. Somatic embryogenesis in castor (Ricinus communis L.). Adv. Plant Sci. 7(1):163-6, 1994 With N. Rama Swamy. Pollen exine dimorphism in ten heterostylous species. J. Palynol. 29:77-88, 1993 With N. Malathi, K.R.K. Reddy & G.P. Rao. High frequency plant regeneration from embryo cultures of niger (Guizotia abyssinica Cass.). Adv. Plant Sci 5: 216-20, 1992 With K.R.K. Reddy & K.V. Krishna Murthy. Experimental xylogenesis in castor bean callus cultures. Phytomorphology 41:299, 1991 With G. Narsaiah & S.M. Farooqui. Studies on foliar features in seven species of Atylosia Wight & Arnott (Fabaceae). J. Ind. Bot. Soc. 6:336-42, 1986 With G. Narsaiah & N. Ramaswamy. Foliar and epidermal features in relation to twining habit in flowering plants. J. Swamy Bot. Cl. 2(4):117-24, 1985 With S.B. Laxmi & N.R. Swamy. Pollen morphology and heterostyly. A systematic and critical account. Adv. Pollen Spore Res. 12:79-129, 1984 With G. Narsaiah. Twining handedness in flowering plants. Ind. J. Botany 18:41-9, 1984 Pollen flow in dimorphic Turnera subulata (Turneraceae). New Phytol. 98:205-9, 1984 With N. Rama Swamy. Biochemical changes in the pistils of distylous Turnera subulata J.E. Smith (Turneraceae) following self and cross pollinations (1984) Light and scanning electron microscopic study of seeds in Nigella L. (Ranunculaceae) 1984 With K.V. Vaskar & S.M. Farooqui. The taxonomic significance of seed and seed coat (LM & SEM) characters in six species of Nigella (Ranunculaceae). Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 92B:429-35, 1983 With M. Madhusudana Rao. Effect of irradiation and centrifugation on seedling enantiomorphism in green gram and black grain. Curr. Sci. 51(5):242-3, 1982 Heterostyly in Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms. J. Ind. Bot. Soc. 56:299-06, 1977 With N. Pratap Reddy. Types of vernation in the cyathia of Euphorbia milli Des Moulins. New Phytologist 75(1):131-4, 1975 With N. Ramayya. Studies of the structural and developmental variation and distribution of stomata in the Rubiaceae. Bot. Linn. Soc. 64:295-310, 1971 Heterostyly in Hedyotis nigricans (Lam.) Fosb. J. Genetics 60:175-7, 1970 With N. Ramayya. Morphology of the “squamellae” in the light of their ontogeny. Curr. Sci. 37:520-2, 1968 Heterostyly in Rubiaceae: a review. Osmania Univ. J. Sci. 4:207-38, 1968 Pollen dimorphism in heterostyled Oldenlandia umbellata. Rhodora 66:56-60, 1964 HONOURS Honorary Research Fellow, Birmingham University
Bihari Lal Bhatia
Bihari Lal Bhatia, Indian protozoologist (Amritsar, Punjab 14 August 1884 – 16 July 1941) DESCRIBED PROTOZOA TAXA Families Aikinetocystidae 1930 Allantocystidae 1930 Diplocystidae 1930 Dixiidae 1930 Rhynchocystidae 1930 Stomatophoridae 1930 Syncystidae 1930 Zygocystidae 1930 Genera Caulocephalus 1924 with Stena Contortiocorpa 1935 with Setna Deuteromera 1938 with Setna Echinocystis 1925 with Chaterjee Grebneckiella 1938 Orthodonella 1936 Peritromoides 1936 Species Ascogregarina tripteroidis 1938 Babesia tropicus 1938 Caulocephalus crenata 1924 with Setna Cepedea sialkoti 1927 with Gulati Chilodonella spiradentalis 1930 with Mullick Coleps kenti 1922 Contortiocorpa prashadi 1935 with Setna Deuteromera cleava 1938 with Setna Echinocystis globosa 1925 with Chatterjee Eimeria gupti 1938 Euglena srinagari 1930 Garnhamia aciculata 1938 Haemoproteus cerchneisi 1938 Haemoproteus corvi 1937 Hirmocystis parapeneopsisi 1934 with Setna Hoplitophrya indica 1916 Isospora calotesi 1938 Lepistomaphila cornwalli 1938 Lankesteria tripteroidesi 1938 Lecudina eunicae 1938 with Setna Lecudina lysidicae 1938 with Setna Leucocytozoon melloi 1938 Loxodes bahaduri 1930 with Mullick Loxophyllum fasciola 1916 Monocystella leptoplanae 1924 with Setna Monocystis matthaii 1926 with Setna Monocystis pheretimae 1925 with Chatterjee Monocystis pheretimi 1925 with Chatterjee Nematocystis stephensoni 1926 with Setna Nyctotherus reniformis 1927 with Gulati Opalina coracoidae 1927 with Gulati Protomagalhaensia attenuata 1934 with Setna Pseudoglaucoma digitata 1936 Rhynchoystis awatii 1926 with Setna Rhynchocystis cognettii 1925 with Chatterjee Selenidium amphinomi 1938 with Setna Spathidium moniliforme 1920 Stomatophora bulbifera 1926 with Setna Stomatophora primitiva 1938 with Setna Stomatophora simplex 1924 Trachelomonas kashmiri 1930 Ulivina eunicae 1938 with Setna HONORS Bhatiella Setna 1932 (Protozoa)
Bicalho brothers
Francisco de Paula Bicalho, Brazilian civil engineer (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 18 July 1847 – Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State 18 November 1919) With Aarão Reis designed and built Belo Horizonte city (1883-97) Headed the works that improved Rio de Janeiro harbor (1904-10) Managed the works of Rio Grande inlet (1909-15), recognized as the one of world’s most notable works in hydraulic engineering A Barra e o Porto de Rio Grande – uma vitória da engenharia brasileira. Pedro C. Da Silva Telles. Rev. Mar. Braz. p.117-22, 2001 (in Portuguese) Due to these works related above gained fame abroad as a harbor engineer His brother, Honório Bicalho, civil engineer (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State 04 February 1839 – Rio de Janeiro 05 May 1886) With Pereira Passos traced the railway at Mantiqueira mountain range (1875-81) Proposed two piers at each side of the Rio Grande inlet improving a suggestion of English engineer John Hawkshaw Relatório sobre o melhoramento da Barra do Rio Grande (1883) Proposed an intermediate type of gauge, a narrow gauge with larger radius curves and / or a narrow gauge railway with gentle curves Estudos sobre a largura das estradas de ferro e a resistência dos trens (1876) Proposed a new formula for broad gauge train resistance Resistência dos trens. II. Fórmula nova da resistência dos trens em bitola larga. Rev. Estradas de Ferro (1886)
Bertoni family
Moisés Santiago Bertoni, Swiss-born Paraguayan naturalist (Lottigna, Ticino Canton 15 June 1857 – Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná State, Brazil 19 September 1929) His original name was Mosé Giacomo Bertoni Authored works on agronomy, botany, zoology, meteorology, ethnography and language of Guarani people (nearly 540 publications) ACHIEVEMENTS Agriculture Developed new agricultural methods Nuevo metodo para el cultivo del banana: práctica del “rozado sin quemar” (1911) Plant Pathology Una nueva enfermedad del cafeto. Rev. Agric. Cien. Apl. Paraguay 1(4-5):211-73, 1898 La gomosis de los citrus y un nuevo medio preventivo y curativo. An. Cient. Paraguayos (1919) Meteorology Invented a drosometer and a phyto-thermometer (1905) Chemistry Classified Stevia rebaudiana (1905), source of a sweet flavor glycoside stevioside La Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. La estevina y la rebaudina. Nuevas substancias edulcorantes. An. Cient. Paraguayos 2(6):29-134, 1918 Botany DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Ananas strictus 1913 Jussiaea leveillana 1910 Pavonia restiaria 1911 Rollinia viridis 1913 Stevia rebaudiana 1899 Vanilla bertoniensis 1910 Vigna asparaginea 1913 Vigna brasilica 1913 Vigna inga 1913 Vigna oryzina 1913 Vigna serotina 1913 Vigna sulphurea 1913 Vigna tonkinensis 1913 His son, Arnoldo da Winkelried Bertoni, Paraguayan zoologist (Swiss 28 December 1878 – Asunción 1973) Enunciated laws about pre-historic and fossil deposits Leyes sobre yacimientos prehistoricos y fosiles. Rev. Soc. Cient. Paraguay 2(6):265, 1930 DESCRIBED AVES Family Genera Campylorhamphus 1901 Myiornis 1901 Species/Subespecies Drymophila rubricollis 1901 Pulsathrix koeniswaldiana 1901 (with his father) Zenaida auriculata virgata 1901 Strix virgata borelliana 1901 Buteo magnirostris magniplumis 1901 Phaethornis eurynome paraguayensis 1901 (with his father) Penelope superciliaris major 1901 Euphonia violacea aurantiicollis 1901 Chamaeza campanisona tshororo 1901 Asio stygius barberoi 1930 HYMENOPTERA Genera Zeteumenes 1921 Amphimenes 1923 Protozethus 1925 Alphamenes 1934 Beteumenes 1934 Paramortonia 1934 Species Described nearly 50 new species from Paraguay With Schouten described a fungi species Fusarium riarti (1934) HONORS Bertoniella Rehn 1911 (Orthoptera)