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Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer,IFS.,(1874-1950). Born in Bombay and educated in England and France,worked as a Principal Madras Forest College (From 1915-1917) & as Conservator of forests Coimbatore. While posted to Forest Service in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. During his service, he made extensive collections from the Nilgiris, Palanis and Coimbatore Forest Divisions of Tamil Nadu and Seshachalam Hills and Ganjam District of Andhra Pradesh. The original collections from all these areas were sent to the Indian Botanic Gardens, Kolkatta. Duplicate specimens of most of the Fischer's collections are deposited in the Fischer Herbarium.