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THE presidential chair in the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, which became vacant last year owing to the death of Prof. A. P. Karpinsky, is now filled by the election of Prof. V. L. Komarov. The new president is an eminent botanist, particularly well known for his exhaustive studies in the flora and vegetation of Kamtchatka, Manchuria and the Far East generally. During the last few years, Prof. V. L. Komarov occupied the post of vice-president of the Academy and took an active part in various aspects of its work. It may be hoped that his election to the presidency will mean substantial developments in the natural history researches, which lately has remained somewhat in the background, since the main attention of the Academy, as a whole, has been directed to technical and engineering problems, which have to be studied in connexion with the ‘socialistic reconstruction’ of the country.
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Prof. V. L. Komarov. Nature 139, 61 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139061a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139061a0