Journeys

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Vavilov organized his journal by countries, and it makes sense to reflect that reality here, even though political boundaries have shifted in the meantime.

Clicking on one of the links listed below will take you to a page that archives all the journal entries from that place.

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1 Dirk January 20, 2009 at 11:37 am

Eureka!

There is not yet any discussion of Vavilov’s (1922) classic paper about “the Law on homologous series in variation” J. Genetics vol. 12(1) pp. 47-90 at this site. He is bound to have developed some of the ideas for this paper during his travels…

Google scholar has no link to the full text so here is the journal contents page.

And here is Vavilov’s paper as a PDF

Enjoy…

Unfortunately, the impressive colour plate illustrating the similarities in the series of variation found in seeds of lentils (Lens culinaris Medicus) and those of common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) has only been reproduced in black and white.

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2 Jeremy January 20, 2009 at 4:25 pm

@Dirk – Many thanks for the links. You’re right, there is no discussion yet, partly because I have not had time to see how the Law holds up today. It will feature, but I’m not promising when. And I’ll try and find the plates in colour when it does …

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