Série WB/G/G.2-G.6 - Visit to the USSR, September 1925

Extent: 4 folders, 1 album

Admin History: Bateson attended the bicentennial meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. Sir Henry Miers, D'Arcy Thompson and J.M. Keynes accompanied him. They left England on 31 August and arrived, via Copenhagen and Stockholm, in Leningrad, where he spent several days. In Leningrad and Moscow Bateson also spent time visiting a number of biological research institutes, including N.I. Vavilov's Institute of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding.