Abstract
THE distinguished Russian geographer Prof. Jules Schokalsky died in Leningrad on March 26 at the age of eighty-four. He was widely known throughout Europe and America, where he made many friends at international scientific gatherings. As a boy he lived much in the country and acquired a love of Nature by his comradeship with a son of the poet Pushkin, and this aesthetic sentiment opened the way to serious scientific study. He led a life of ceaseless activity from the time he entered the Naval School at St. Petersburg in 1874 until his death, and for forty-five years I have had the privilege of enjoying his helpful friendship. Even the shock of the Russian revolution of 1917 did not check the continuity of his work; to him science was superior to politics. He continued under the Soviet system in Leningrad to give full expression to the enthusiasm for oceanography and cartography which had animated him during half a century under the Empire.
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