The first secretary general of the society was M. A. Hannan of the Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka.
The first editor of Bangladesh Journal of Botany was Ahmad Shamsul Islam of the University of Dhaka.
In 1986 the society started the publication Udvid Barta which was a Bengali language botany journal.
[2] In February 2017, Bangladesh Botanical Society and the Biology Faculty of Chittagong University held the first Botanical Olympiad in Bangladesh at the Chittagong University.
[3] Another Botanical Olympiad was held at Chittagong University in October 2017.