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'''Bagepalli Ramachandrachar Seshachar''' (9 January 1908 – 25 January 1994) was a renowned zoologist and the President of [[Indian National Science Academy]] from 1971–72.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://insaindia.res.in/past_council.php|title=INSA :: Past Presidents|website=insaindia.res.in|access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Seshachar,_Prof._Bagepalli_Ramachandrachar|title=Fellowship {{!}} Indian Academy of Sciences|website=www.ias.ac.in|access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref><br />
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He joined the University of Mysore in 1926 as a demonstrator in Zoology and was a tenured professor until his retirement in 1960.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ub7tAAAAIAAJ|title=Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy, 1935-1993: N-Z|last=Academy|first=Indian National Science|date=1994|publisher=The Academy|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=814|language=en}}</ref> Post-retirement, he was invited by [[V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao]], the then vice-chancellor of [[Delhi University]], to head the Zoology department<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA196|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians|last=Beolens|first=Bo|last2=Watkins|first2=Michael|last3=Grayson|first3=Michael|date=2013-04-22|publisher=Pelagic Publishing|isbn=9781907807442|language=en}}</ref> where he served until 1971.<ref name=":0" /> [[Raorchestes charius]] and [[Gegeneophis seshachari]] are named after him and the etymology noted his pioneering studies concerning the [[cytogenetics]], reproductive biology, and natural history of Indian [[Caecilians of the Western Ghats|caecilians]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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