Prof. Dr. G.S. Yonzone, son of late R.B. Yonzoneand Late Chandtamaya Yonzone, Professor Yonzone wasborn on 17th day of November 1939 at Sinji Busty of Kalimpong, District Darjeeling. Presently Chairman of the West Bengal Regional School Service Commission, Hill Zone, and formerly Head of the Undergraduate and postgraduate Department of Botany, Darjeeling Kalimpong College, Prof. Yonzone did this M.Sc. in Botany from the University of North Bengal in 1964 and Ph.D. in plant Taxonomy from the University of Calcutta in 1976. He is the founder- General Secretary of the Himalaya Science Association, Darjeeling, and Founder-ManagingTrustee of Darjeeling Goodwill Animal Shelter at Bong Busty, Kalimpong. He has organised numerous seminars and workshops in the field of science and environment education as a part of his effort to bring about mass awareness on the inseparable linkage between Education and Development.    Professor Yonzone was selected by the British Council, London, as a Visitor Scientist to United Kingdom in 1983 and during the two months period he visited the British Natural History Museum, Kew Botanic Gardens, the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens and finally the University of Reading where he worked with Professor V.H. Heywood in the area of plant Taxonomy and Ecology. In 1993, Prof. Yonzone became the first Hillman of Darjeeling to have been selected as Fullbright United States Educational Foundation in India.