Sunder Lal Hora: Difference between revisions

Hora was born at [[Hafizabad]] in the Punjab (modern day [[Pakistan]]) on 2 May 1896. He schooled in Jullunder before college at Lahore. He met [[Thomas Nelson Annandale]] who visited his college in Lahore in 1919 and was invited to the Zoological Survey of India. In 1921 he became in-charge of ichthyology and herpetology and in 1947 became Superintendent of the Z.S.I. and then Director after Baini Prashad moved to become an advisor to the government.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Roonwal, M.L.|year=1956|title=The Late Dr Sunder Lal Hora (1896-1955): an appreciation, together with a complete list of his scientific writings|url=http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/054/03-04/0107-0137.pdf|journal=Records of the Indian Museum|volume=54|issue=3-4|pages=107–137}}</ref>

He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1929. His proposers were [[James Hartley Ashworth]], John Stephenson, [[Charles Henry O'Donoghue]] and [[James Ritchie (naturalist)|James Ritchie]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}</ref>

He died on 8 December 1955.<ref name=copeia>{{cite journal|author=Silas, E.G. |jstor=1440452|pages=134–136|year=1956|title=Sunder Lal Hora|journal=Copeia|issue=2|url=http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7042/2/139-COPEIA_1956.pdf}}</ref><ref name=obit>{{cite journal|author=Roonwal, M.L.|title=Sunder Lal Hora (1899-1955)|volume=22|issue=6|pages=287–303|url=http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b69_287.pdf|journal=Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222065616/http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b69_287.pdf|archive-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>