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Title: Vasilii Sergeevich Il'in papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1959
Collection number: 2000C68
Creator:
Il'in, Vasilii Sergeevich, 1888-1957
Extent:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to plant physiology and to Russian émigré affairs.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Russian,
Spanish or Castilian,
and English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Vasilii Sergeevich Il'in Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1888 October 17 | Born, Poliany, Riazanskaia guberniia, Russia |
| 1912 | Degree, Natural Science, University of St. Petersburg |
| 1912-1915 | Director, Biological Steppe Station, Voronezhskaia guberniia, Russia |
| 1916-1920 | Director, Department of Plant Physiology, Regional Agricultural Experiment Station, Ekaterinoslavskaia guberniia, Russia |
| Professor, Ekaterinoslav University | |
| 1920-1940 | Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1923 | Doctoris Rerum Naturalium, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1924 | Author, Anatomiia i fiziologiia rastenii |
| 1940 | Author, Boden und Pflanze |
| 1941-1944 | Scientist, Deaprtment of Plant Physiology, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1945-1947 | Scientist, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1948-1953 | Scientist, Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Soils, Maracay, Venezuela |
| 1953-1957 | Professor, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Caracas, Venezuela |
| 1957 August 9 | Died, Caracas, Venezuela |
This collection contains materials relating to the life and scientific accomplishments of the botanist V. S. Il'in. Materials
relating to his biography include numerous obituaries, identity documents and diplomas. His writings include samples of his
scientific works, and the subject file and photographic collection illustrate émigré life in Venezuela.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant
also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Plant physiology.
Russians--Venezuela.
Russia.
Venezuela.