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What about a University with ties to the
area?
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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:16
PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Earlier Russian
trouble
Anybody on the list on a first name basis with Bill Gates?
Could be a media coup for him.
From: iwgarden@earthlink.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date:
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:37:45 -0700
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Earlier Russian
trouble
Is there any way that
some group could buy the land--it does not seem to be a huge piece. (But of
course, what group?)
From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of rob
hamilton
Sent: Tuesday,
September 07, 2010 5:55 AM
To: North American Fruit
Explorers
Subject: Re:
[NAFEX] Earlier Russian trouble
People have been writing letters to pres. Medvedev
according some articles which has had some effect as far as auctioning off the
land. Of course that will not effect the actual support for the program. The
only thing I feel that we can do for them is to share their story... share
our story. At the very
least their work will not be forgotten.
Jerry I urge you to interview
them with a tape recorder or video. Have them tell their story (the story of
the scientist from the first contact as well if we can) - what the do, what
the working conditions are like, the state of the program and its contents. Ed
mentioned possibly working on and article revisiting the NAFEX /Russia
trip. I was working on an introduction to that before my computer
crashed.
This maybe that most that we can do, but I feel it would be an
important contribution.
On the same note the is a very good but sad
account of the founder of the institute Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov who stared to death in prison under
Stallin.
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov:
The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the
Twentieth Century by Peter Pringle
(it would be nice to see if the author would do a
followup with this situation)
Another book I am currently reading
is:
Where Our Food Comes From:
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary
Nabhan
I hope his collection does not end up the same way he
did
Robert Hamilton
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Atlanta
Fruits Club http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Atlanta_Fruits/
North
American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) www.NAFEX.org
Southern Fruit Fellowship (SFF) www.NAFEX.org/SFF
Southeastern Palm and Exotic Plant Society (SPEPS)
www.SPEPS.net
California
Rare Fruit Growers
www.crfg.org
My
New Blog!!
http://atlantafruitman.wordpress.com/
From: Betty
Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>; North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, September 5, 2010 6:49:54
PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Earlier
Russian trouble
To the list,
Apparently
underfunding of the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry has been going on for
some time, according to an article by Gabrielle Strobel in Science News, Dec.
18, 1993, which said the institute was operating on a shoestring.
And
other dangers were faced.
"Some of the institute's riches have vanished
already. Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Vavilov network consisted
of 19 experimental stations, six of them located outside Russia. One of these,
the Sukhumi station in Georgia's contested western province of Abkhazia, was
destroyed in this year's [1993] civil war.
"Alexey Fogel, an
83-year-old botanist and 50-year veteran of the Sukhumi station, rescued seeds
as he fled Abkhazia through mountain paths in the Caucasus range, says Sergey
Alexanian, a spokesman for the Vavilov institute. Fogel, his son Vladimir,
also a scientist at the Sukhumi station, and two other botanists succeeded in
evacuating 226 precious samples of subtropical fruit plants and almost the
entire lemon collection to the Russian town of Sochi.
"There the
samples will be kept permanently, hopes Alexanian, provided the Russian
government absorbs the cost. The institute does not plan to move them to the
St. Petersburg collection because the city's climate is not conducive to
growing and studying subtropical plants. The 2,000 samples left behind in the
Sukhumi station are probably spoiled, Alexanian says."
Betty
Mayfield
northwest
Oregon
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