Bogdanov, Anatoly Petrovich

(1834 - 1896). He graduated from the course at Moscow University in the department of natural sciences. In 1858, Mr.. thesis master's degree in zoology "The color of the pen of birds"; from 1865 to 1886. excavated mounds in Moscow Province and wrote a doctoral thesis: "On the Moscow Mound tribe". In 1867, Mr.. appointed full professor at Moscow University. At the initiative of Bogdanov organized a committee of acclimatization of animals at the Imperial Moscow Society of Agriculture and the Imperial Society of Naturalists, anthropology and ethnography, which he was president from 1886. At the VIII Congress of Russian naturalists and physicians in 1889 - 1890 g. Bogdanov, along with others, introduced the proposal on the basis of Russian Association for Development of Science, which was accepted by the Congress. Since 1863. Bogdanov was in charge of the zoological museum in 1872. was director of the Department of Applied Zoology at Moscow's Museum of applied knowledge and the committee of sericulture. In Zoology Bogdanov published about 30 part special, part of popular works on anthropology - more than 40. From the works aimed at popularization, particularly remarkable "Zoology" and "zoological reader" (1865 - 1867), and not finished "Medical Zoology", the first volume of which appeared in 1883. Since 1888. Bogdanov published in "Proceedings of the Imperial Society of Naturalists," Materials for the history of scientific and applied activities in Russia in zoology and in contact with her industry knowledge, . mainly the last thirty-fifth "(1850 - 1891),
. Edited Bogdanova were translated into Russian the essential textbooks and teaching aids, for example, "Protozoa" and "Coelenterata" Bron, "Comparative anatomical charts" Carus. A detailed list of works to see. in the above-mentioned "Materials for the history of scientific and applied activities."