Paintings of wild apples and wild pears collected by Russian botanists

By

Lawson, J. S.
Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), 1887-1943
Vsesoi͡uznyĭ institut rastenievodstva (Soviet Union)

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[Russia], [between 1930 and 1932?]

Notes

"Institute of Plant Industry-Leningrad. (After Dr. V.I. Vavilov, by J.S. Lawson)."

Title from accompanying cards.

Drawings on six boards showing the wild apples of Caucasus (West Transcaucasus and Daghestan), wild pears of North Caucasus, wild apples of Middle Asia and wild pears of Middle Asia.

"Presented to Professor Richard Wellington of this Station [New York State Agricultural Experiment Station] in 1932 by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov at the time of the International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, N.Y. He said they would never be published in Russia. He was arrested in 1940 and died a few years later in a Siberian village."

Subjects

Apples , Drawings , Pears , Pictorial works , Soviet Union , Watercolors

BHL Collections

Pomology: Apples and Cider

Call Number

SB363.2.S65 P35

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 1013191093