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GUWAHATI, Aug.6. - Naturalist and Padmashree award winner Dr. Robin Banerjee died at 6.30 this morning at his Golaghat home.

Dr. Banerjee was cremated in the evening on the lawns of his bunglow. Government offices and educational institution were closed as a mark of respect to "Uncle Robin" who had put Kaziranga on the world map courtesy his 55 minute film Kaziranga in the early 1960s.Dr. Banerjee made several films on the flora and fauna of different places across the world, which won him considerable acclaim. He was awarded the Padmashree in 1971. Born in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, Dr. Banerjee made Assam his home after the World War II, during which he served as a doctor with the Royal British Navy.He had converted his bunglow into a museum called Uncle Robin's Natural History Museum for Children.