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Satya Churn Law (also transcribed as Satya Charan Law or in Bengali Satyacharan Laha) (1888 – 11 December 1984) was a wealthy naturalist, amateur ornithologist, educationist and intellectual in Calcutta.Edward Shils, Joseph Epstein (1997) Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals. University of Chicago Press, 1997 . p.78-79
Law was born to Ambikacharan Laha and Kiranbala Devi at their home on Kailash Bose Street in Calcutta. He was educated at Metropolitan College, and at Presidency College, obtaining a master's degree in history. He then obtained a law degree. He had an interest in bird from an early age and began to keep them and observe them in captivity. He was for a while a treasurer of the Indian Statistical Institute. He established an aviary at this home in Agarpada, near Calcutta in 1926. He was elected Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Member of the
Aviary at Agarpara to house a business school. The Telegraph, 21 March 2003
Pet Birds of Bengal
Kalidaser Pakhi
(The Birds of Kalidasa) Indian naturalists Scholars from Kolkata 1984 deaths Year of birth missing 20th-century Indian biologists Aviculturists {{Biologist-stub
Law was born to Ambikacharan Laha and Kiranbala Devi at their home on Kailash Bose Street in Calcutta. He was educated at Metropolitan College, and at Presidency College, obtaining a master's degree in history. He then obtained a law degree. He had an interest in bird from an early age and began to keep them and observe them in captivity. He was for a while a treasurer of the Indian Statistical Institute. He established an aviary at this home in Agarpada, near Calcutta in 1926. He was elected Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Member of the British Ornithologists' Union
The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation. The BOU was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry ...
. In 1937, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri CBE (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian writer.
In 1990, Oxford University awarded Chaudhuri, by then a long-time resident of the city of Oxford, an Honorary Degree in Letters. In 1992, he was made an hono ...
became his literary assistant. He wrote books on a variety of topics including birds (''Pet Birds of Bengal'' 1923) based on his experience in keeping aviaries. He was a vice president of the Calcutta Zoological Garden for a while. He founded, in 1924, a journal, ''Prakriti'', in Bengali for the popularization of natural science.
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Aviary at Agarpara to house a business school. The Telegraph, 21 March 2003
Pet Birds of Bengal
Kalidaser Pakhi
(The Birds of Kalidasa) Indian naturalists Scholars from Kolkata 1984 deaths Year of birth missing 20th-century Indian biologists Aviculturists {{Biologist-stub