DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN RUSSIA

Abstract

THE history of the development of the natural sciences in Russia is closely connected with their powerful development in Western Europe and in North America. Indeed, during the initial period of the establishment of the exact sciences in our country, a number of distinguished European scientific men were invited to Russia where, living and working for long periods, they contributed many new pages to world science. Names of members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, such as Karl Ernst von Baer, Pallas, Bernoulli, Euler and others, are well known. Beginning with Michael Lomonosov, many Russian men of science worked and studied in famous laboratories of Great Britain, France and Germany. But it would be wrong to look upon the history of the development of the natural sciences in Russia-as historians of science often do-as only a result of the activities of those great men of science from Western Europe who came to Russia and pursued their work in the young Russian Academy of Sciences.