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220th ANNIVERSARY JUST over a month after the Red Army had captured Berlin, the Academy of Sciences celebrated its two hundred and twentieth anniversary by inviting scientific workers from all over the Soviet Union and from eighteen foreign countries to meet in Moscow and Leningrad. It was a very generous gesture from a nation which has suffered so severely from the War, and it is evidence of the importance which the U.S.S.R. attaches to international contacts in science. For two weeks some nine hundred scientific workers were guests of the Soviet Union. All the splendour of Russian hospitality was given to them. There were lectures and demonstrations and excursions. Soviet laboratories were freely opened for inspection. Most foreign delegates came away with very generous gifts of reprints and books and specimens: for example, the four foreign botanists each received a set of the ten volumes already published of the Flora of the U.S.S.R.
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Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.. Nature 156, 221 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156221a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156221a0