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JACOB GIK, writing from Moscow, states that an Academy of Sciences has now been founded in Azerbaijan. Prior to its establishment, the Republic had a branch of the Moscow Academy, with twenty-two research institutes, etc. The new Academy has four main departments: agriculture, biology, geology and chemistry of oil, physics and technology of oil, together with a department of social sciences. The natural resources of Azerbaijan are now well known. Immense oilfields have been discovered and are now being developed. Geologists are investigating deposits of chromite, barytes and cobalt. The efforts of Russian men of science have made the province to a large extent independent of imported materials and enabled industry to carry on its work during the War without serious interruption. Physicists did particularly valuable work during the War. The Institute of Botany has published a comprehensive scientific work: “Agricultural Raw Materials of the Soviet Union”. The Institute of Zoology is doing intensive work on problems connected with the effort to increase the yield of cotton, to rationalize the use of winter pasture lands, and to employ suitable local mineral fertilizers. A history of the literature of Azerbaijan from ancient times has just been published in two large volumes. The statutes of the Academy have been approved and fifteen well-known savants have been named as its first members.
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Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. Nature 156, 44 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156044d0
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