The Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru on Wednesday announced the launch of a new collection of archival material, related to the entomologist and plant pathologist Leslie Charles Coleman, who worked in the princely state of Mysore in the early 20th century.
The Leslie Coleman collection will be launched on June 16 as part of the annual Coleman Lecture series held at the College of Agriculture, UAS, GKVK, after which the catalogue and digital objects from the collection will be available to the public online.
NCBS said that the collection documents the work of Coleman, a Canadian who was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State in pre-independent India between 1913 and 1934. He was first hired in 1908 as an entomologist who focused on plant protection, studying specific plant diseases and pests affecting cash crops.
