Muhammad Afzal Husain

His father, Husain Baksh, was a Persian and Arabic scholar who worked as a district judge.

During his early years he moved around Punjab and studied at schools in cities where his father was posted on transfers.

He was selected as a supernumerary entomologist at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa in 1918.

[1][2][3] At the Silver Jubilee session of the Indian Science Congress in 1938 at Calcutta, he gave a presidential address that examined the history of entomological research in India and its outlook.

[3] A full list of his publications is provided by his son Hussain in the INSA biography (1994).