For any award of the Indian Fern Society, the applicant should be a LIFE MEMBER of the Indian Fern Society and fulfill the following conditions:
CERTIFICATE OF MERIT
1. Age: Not more than 36 years on January 1, of the year of award.
2. At least one publications in the Indian Fern Journal.
3. Attended at least one symposium and presented a paper in the symposium organized by the
Indian Fern Society.
GOLD MEDAL IN PTERIDOLOGY
1. Age: Below 50 years on January 1, of the year of award.
2. At least three publications in the Indian Fern Journal.
3. Attended at least two symposia and presented a paper in the symposium organized by the
Indian Fern Society.
4. Gold Medal Awardees will have to deliver a ‘Gold Medal Award Lecture’. Applicants wishing to be considered for the IFS Gold Medal, are required to submit a single-author manuscript, which will form the substance of the Medal Award Lecture for the successful applicant/s. All such MSS will be taken as duly submitted for Indian Fern Journal.
The successful applicant will be duly intimated, for preparation of the Medal Award Lecture, to be delivered at the Symposium, and Medal will be presented after the lecture. The MSS based on the Award Lecture will be published in the Indian Fern Journal.
FELLOW
1. At least four publications in the Indian Fern Journal, one of which should be in the immediate last volume of the Journal.
3. Attended at least two symposia and presented a paper in the symposium organized by the Indian Fern Society.
LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
1. A senior well known Pteridologist.
2. At least five publications in the Indian Fern Journal, one of which should be in the immediate last volume of the Journal.
3. Attended at least two symposia and presented a lead/Invited lecture in the symposium organized by The Indian Fern Society.