Borba; Sahani was born on 14th of November , 1891 in Bhera a small town in Shahapur District now a part of West Punjab in Pakistan. Birbal published h

Borba; Sahani was born on 14^th of November , 1891 in Bhera a small town in Shahapur District now a part of West Punjab in Pakistan. Birbal published his first two research papers in 1915, on some plants belonging to South France and Malaysia. In September 1939, he formed a committee of palaeobotanist in India. In course of time this committee published reports of Palaeobotanical activities in India. In June 1946, the Palaeobotanical Society was founded in Lucknow. The Palaeobotanical Institute was founded on 10^th of September 1946. The institute was later named “Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany”