Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
1847–96
Russian botanist and plant physiologist. Lecturer in botany, Mining Institute, 1870–9. Conservator, St Petersburg Botanical Garden, 1870; director, 1892. Founded a station at the garden for testing seeds and for economic botany in 1877. Professor of botany at the Imperial Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg, 1884–93. Wrote mostly on experimental plant physiology.
Sources
Bol’shaya entsiklopediya
GSE
Bibliography
Bol’shaya entsiklopediya: Bol’shaya entsiklopediya v shestidesyati dvukh tomakh. (Большая энциклопедия: в шестидесяти двух томах.) Main editor: S. A. Kondratov. Scientific editorial advisor: G. A. Mesiyats. 62 vols. Moscow: Terra. 2006.
GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.
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