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AXEXANDR KONSTANTINOVICH MORDVILKO, an aphidologist and parasitologist of world repute, who died on July 12, was born in 1867 in the village of Stolovichi, Minsk province of Russia. As a son of a minor cleric, he received his general education in the Minsk seminary, but then entered the University of Warsaw and after taking his degree in natural sciences in 1893, obtained a post-graduate scholarship which enabled him to study, first at Warsaw, then at the zoological stations of Naples, Marseilles and Villefranche. Two years as lecturer (on animal parasitology) at the University of Kiev were followed by an appointment to that of St. Petersburg, then of Moscow. In 1911 he joined the staff of the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he spent the rest of his life, while giving lectures at the University and the Agronomical Institute.
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UVAROV, B. Prof. A. K. Mordvilko. Nature 142, 1027–1028 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421027b0
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