PROF.
B. K. Nayar is the foremost pteridologist
India has produced and one of the topmost among contemporary
pteridologists the world over. He has the record of
active research studies on pteridology covering a
long span of over 40 years and has published over
200 research papers in leading research journals of
the world.
DR.
K. K. Geevarghese, Professor of Botany, now
at M.E.S. College, Mampad (Kerala) is primarily a
fern taxonomist and ecologist, who has been engaged
in the study of taxonomy of ferns of Malabar and ecology
of the Western Ghat forests for the past twenty years.
His intimate knowlege of forests of Malabar, their
plant wealth and ecology is unsurpassed.
