Zograf, N. Yu. Anthropometric study of male Russian population, Vladimir, Yaroslavl and Kostroma provinces. With 34 ...

Zograf, N. Yu. Anthropometric study of male Russian population, Vladimir, Yaroslavl and Kostroma provinces. With 34 phototypic tables, 16 maps, and 63 polytypes in the text.

M. 1892 Publisher's cover, 27 x 36 cm. Condition: uncut copy, splits into blocks, library seals, tear along the edge of the front cover.

Nikolai Yuryevich Zograf (1851-1919) — Russian zoologist, honored Professor of Moscow University, knight of the French Legion of Honor.

He was descended from hereditary nobles, the son of a Lieutenant. Until the age of 8, he lived in the village of Dorskoye, then, until the age of 10, in Yaroslavl. From 1862 to 1868, he studied at the 4th Moscow men's gymnasium. He graduated with a silver medal and entered the physics and mathematics Department of Moscow University (Department of natural Sciences), after which in 1872, in the direction of the society of lovers of natural science, anthropology and Ethnography (OLEAE), he began working as a preparator in the Zoological Museum of the University. In 1873-1874, he accompanied his teacher A. p. Bogdanov on a trip abroad as an assistant.

From 1874 to 1884, he taught geography and natural history at the Moscow commercial school (at the same time, from February 1876, he was a supernumerary assistant at the Zoological Museum, and from December 1877 to 1888, he was the Keeper of the zoomuseum); in 1878-1890, he taught at the Practical Academy of commercial Sciences, as well as at the Catherine and Alexander institutes; in 1881-1886, he taught courses in Zoology and methods of natural science at the Moscow society for the patronage of governesses and teachers. He has also taught at the Lyceum Tsarevich Nicholas.

In 1883, N. Y. Zograf defended his master's thesis "Materials for the knowledge of embryonic development of Geophilus ferrugineus and G. proximus") and in October 1884 became a privatdozent; since 1885, he led a course in histology. In 1887, at Novorossiysk University, he defended his dissertation for the degree of doctor of Zoology "Materials for the study of the structure of sterlet" and at the end of 1888 was appointed supernumerary extraordinary Professor of Zoology at Moscow University; from may 1897 — full-time, from may 1898-ordinary, from December 1909 — distinguished Professor.

Among N. Y. Zograf's students were: N. V. Bogoyavlensky, who later headed the Department of histology at Moscow University; A. D. Nekrasov, a cytologist and embryologist, a historian of biology; S. A. Zernov, an academician, the founder of Russian Hydrobiology; L. S. Berg, an academician, the founder of the doctrine of landscapes; and E. G. Becker, an entomologist, a Professor at Moscow University.

In 1877, he made a trip to the Kanin tundra and the Kanin Peninsula to study the Samoyeds, and then a series of trips to excavate mounds in Siberia and anthropometric observations of Central Russia, the results of the expeditions were published in "Izvestiya OLEAE". From 1878 to 1890 was Chairman of the Department of ichthyology of the Imperial Russian society of acclimatization of plants and animals, which played a leading role in the development of fish farming and fish study of the country, and later became Chairman of the Department of invertebrates of the same society and the Chairman of the Commission for the study of the Central Russian waters in relation to fisheries. For a long time, he was an assistant to D. N. Anuchin in the management Of the Department of anthropology of OLEAE.

In 1891, he organized a hydrobiological station on lake Glubokoe in the West of the Moscow region, which in 1916 was named after N. Y. Zograf. He also participated in the formation of the RUz district Museum of local lore.

He was a member of the Moscow society of aquarium and houseplant lovers — the first serious Association of aquarists, organized in 1899, took an active part in the development of Russian aquariums and the first aquarium exhibitions in the country. Zograf was a member of many scientific societies.

In 1911, he initiated the organization of a histology laboratory at Moscow University.

In 1912, at the natural Department of the faculty of physics and mathematics of Moscow University, he began to read the course "Experimental Zoology", marking the beginning of the teaching of genetics.

In addition to scientific activity, he was engaged in social activities: in 1890, he was elected from the Ruzsky uyezd as a Deputy to the Moscow noble Assembly; from 1891, he was a vowel of the Ruzsky uyezd Zemstvo, and from 1894 — of the Moscow provincial Zemstvo.

He was buried in the Passion monastery.