September 21, 2009
July 1926 The visitor from the Soviet Union was apparently a very welcome sight for the eyes of the stern old man. He eagerly showed me his herbarium and provided me with seeds and literature. Together with him I worked out a travel route through Algeria including stops in the Sahara. The conversations with Trabut [...]
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September 18, 2009
Vavilov visited Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia before going to Syria and Palestine. Collecting in North Africa was an important part of his grand plan to understand the domestication of crops, and to obtain material with which to improve Soviet agriculture. 12 July 1926 From Marseilles it is just about an 8-hour voyage aboard a fast [...]
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