Obituaries

Abstract

NEWS has just reached us of the death on Jan. 17 at Moscow of Dr. G. S. Zaitzev, director of the Turkestan Plant Breeding Station. Beginning in 1914, Dr. G. S. Zaitzev devoted himself to serious and large-scale genetic, botanical and breeding work in cotton, occupying the position of the chief of the Division of Plant Breeding of the Golod-nostepskay Agricultural Experiment Station until 1919. In 1919 Dr. Zaitzev was appointed director of the Turkestan Plant Breeding Station, where he remained until his death, which has interrupted a life full of scientific achievements in our knowledge of the cotton plant. In addition to his work at the Turkestan Plant Breeding Station, Dr. Zaitzev was engaged in the U.S.S.R. Institute of Applied Botany (Leningrad) as cotton specialist, and in the Central Asia State University (Tashkent) as professor of cotton growing at the Agricultural College. By the death of Dr. Zaitzev, the Soviet Union and the whole world have lost a distinguished scientific worker in the field of genetics and plant breeding, whose memory will be long preserved and honoured.