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  1. D. C. Peattie, “Uncle Sam’s Valiant Plant-Hunters,”Reader’s Digest (October 1944), 94-96.

  2. As quoted by D. Joravsky, “The Vavilov Brothers,”Slavic Review 24 (September 1965), 385.

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  4. S. Reznik,N. Vavilov (Moscow 1968), 12.

  5. “Report of the Director [William Bateson] for the Year 1914,” p. 2 of the John Innes Horticultural Institution. I am indebted to Professor Roy Markham, FRS., a former director of this institution, for a photocopy of this document.

  6. M. Popovskii,Nado speshit’ (Moscow 1968), 35.

  7. “Vospominania o Vavilovykh,”Priroda (#1, 1974), 110. 8 S. Reznik,N. Vavilov (Moscow 1968), 328.

  8. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 32.

  9. Ibid., 33.

  10. Ibid., 41.

  11. D. C. Peattie, “Uncle Sam’s Valiant Plant-Hunters,”Reader’s Digest (October 1944), 95.

  12. S. Reznik,N. Vavilov, 328.

  13. Letter of G. H. Coons to W. Gordon Whaley, 23 Oct 1952, p. 1.

  14. B. M. Cohen,Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov—His Life and Work, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, December 1980, chapter 7, pages 157–158.

  15. As quoted by N. I. Vavilov inPiat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 45.

  16. Ibid.

  17. B. M. Cohen,Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov—His Life and Work, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, December 1980, chapter 2, page 29.

  18. As quoted by N. I. Vavilov inPiat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 77.

  19. Ibid., 50–51.

  20. Ibid., 65.

  21. See “Marshruty ekspeditsii i glavnye torgovye puti v Afganistane,” in N. I. Vavilov,Izb. trudy 1:366–390.

  22. Ibid., 390.

  23. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 85.

  24. F. Kh. Bakhteev, “Osnovnye daty zhizni i deiatel’nosti Akademika N. I. Vavilova,” inNikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Moscow 1967), 5.

  25. S. Reznik,N. Vavilov (Moscow 1968), 329. For the date seeProgramme for the Fourteenth International Genetics Congress, 8.

  26. Ibid., 192.

  27. Ibid., 193.

  28. Ibid., 196.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Ibid., 197.

  31. Ibid., 204–205.

  32. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 138–139.

  33. S. Reznik,N. Vavilov (Moscow 1968), 328-329.

  34. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 166–167.

  35. F. Kh. Bakhteev et al., “Vavilov zhizn,” in N. I. Vavilov,Izb. trudy 1:20; N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 168-170.

  36. S. Reznik,N. Vavilov (Moscow 1968), 227.

  37. Ibid. A close family friend confirms that Vavilov was ill with typhus in Ethiopia; see A. Iu. Tupikova inRiadom s Vavilovym, 36.

  38. Ibid., 328-329.

  39. Ibid., 257.

  40. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 13.

  41. From the memoir of Dr. H. G. Shantz presented by me to the Fourteenth International Genetics Congress in Moscow, 24 Aug. 1978, under the title “N. I. Vavilov and America—His Trip to Tucson in 1930.” The excerpt is from pp. 8–9 of my manuscript copy of Dr. Shantz’s memoir. The original has been returned and must be in the archives of the University of Arizona. I am grateful to Dr. W. K. McGinnies for the location of this important document. After my address at the Genetics Congress, a delegate from one of the Eastern European countries told me that he was intrigued by Vavilov’s attitude toward the Communist Party, and that, perhaps, his behavior over a period of time had aroused the hostility of the Party.

  42. N. I. Vavilov,Piat’ kontinentov (Moscow 1962), 14–15.

  43. “1000 dnei Akademika Vavilova,”Prostor (#7, 1966), 11.

  44. N. I. Vavilov,World Resources of Cereals, Leguminous Seed Crops and Flax (Moscow 1957), trans. by Marc Paenson and Z. S. Cole of the Israel Program for Scientific Translations. United States Department of Commerce Technical Information Service, Book #TT-60-21127, p. 8. Also see page 19 for a table of plants studied under Vavilov’s direction. The total number of plants is given by F. Kh. Bakhteev et al., “Vavilov zhizn” in N. I. Vavilov,Izb. trudy 1:12. The number of experimental stations in operation by 1928 is given by E. E. Anikina inRiadom s Vavilovym, 49.

  45. A. G. Grumm-Grzhimailo,V poiskakh rastitel’nykh resursov mira (Moscow 1962), 134. Also drawn from a conversation I had with Mr. George Babcock, director of Grower’s Seed Co-operative, Lubbock, Texas, winter 1972.

  46. E. E. Leppik, “The Life and Work of N. I. Vavilov,”,Econ. Bot. 23 (1969), 130. The removal of the World Collection is discussed by Leppik in this speech at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Economic Botany, 4–6 Sep. 1968. Also personal conversations I had with Dr. Leppik in August 1969.

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  48. E. E. Leppik, “The Life and Work of N. I. Vavilov,”Econ. Bot. 23 (1969), 130.

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  49. Personal conversation I had with Dr. Leppik in August 1969.

  50. D. D. Brezhnev, “Tsentr rastenievodcheskoi nauki,”Sel’skokhoziaistvennaia biologiia, 4 (#1, 1969), 9.

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Cohen, B.M. Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov: The explorer and plant collector a. Econ Bot 45, 38–46 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860048

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