Question

Where is the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany located ?
A. Aurangabad
B. Kanpur
C. New Delhi
D. Lucknow

Answer 1

Hint: The name of this Institute is over the name of a popular Indian paleobotanist Birbal Sahni. He had a huge interest in geology and archaeology.

Complete Answer:
- Birbal Sahni was born in Bhera, Shahpur district, which is today known as Punjab in Pakistan on 14 November 1891.As an Indian paleobotanist Birbal Sahni studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent.
- He examined wood remains from Harappa, and evolved that people there had trade links with people in mountains where conifers could grow.
- He recorded a problem that fossil pollen in ovules belonged to a single species and also showed how the flora of India and Australia is different from that of China and Sumatra. He introduced “Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany” to the world in 1946.
- Birbal Sahni Palaeobotany Institute is situated in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh , India. This is the Government institute and is fully constituted under the Department of Science and Technology.
- This institute provides higher education and learning regarding research of fossil plants. He had given his major contributions to the plant evolution and study of the fossil plants of India.
- He had served as the President of the National Academy of Sciences, India and as an Honorary President of the International Botanical Congress, Stockholm. He has given his involvement in the establishment of Indian science education.

So, the correct option is D, ‘Lucknow'.

Note: Birbal Sahni had given his contribution in studying living plants species and examined their evolutionary trends and geographical distributions.These species are Nephrolepis, Niphobolus, Taxus, Psilotum, Tmesipteris and Acmopyle.