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### Author
Batalin, Alexander Feodorowicz (1847-1896), Russian botanist, educated at St. Petersburg Gymnasium, studied at the University of St. Petersburg 1865-1869, curator of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden 1870; first botanist 1877, director 1892, professor of botany at the Medical Military Academy 1884-1893; originally working on plant physiology, from 1892 fully dedicating himself to plant systematics.
**Abbreviated name**: *Batal.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Batalin*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LE|LE]]. − Further material at [[Collection K|K]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 136 (d. 1 Oct 1896, St. Petersburg); Bret. p. 2: 1075-1076; CSP 7: 97, 9: 138, 13: 339; De Toni 1: x; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 59; Kew 1: 175; Lipschitz 1: 129-132; LS 1923; Moebius p. 293, 326; Morren ed. 2, p. 30, ed. 10, p. 95; MW p. 33; Rehder 1: 459; TL-2/see indexes; TR 59-60\*\*\*; Tucker 1: 62; Zander ed. 10, p. 632, ed. 11, p. 718.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 50(21): 255. 17 Mai 1892 (appt. director Bot. Gard. St. Petersburg); Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 14: (108). 1896 (d. 16 \[Russian date 1\] Oct 1896; Bot. Monatschr. 15(2): 60. 1897 (d.); Leopoldina 33: 48. 1897 (d. 15 Oct 1896).
- Lack, H.W. and O. v. Sydow, Willdenowia 13: 412. 1983 (letters to Keck at UPS-UB).
- Lipschitz, S.U. and I.T. Vasilczenko, Herbarium centrale URSS: 90. 1968 (handwriting).
- Reynolds Green, J., Hist. bot. 508. 1909.
- Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 44. 1981 (letter to I. Urban on L. Riedel's travels).
- Winkler, C., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 15: (43)-(46). 1897 (biogr., translation of a necrology in Russian by J.S. Korshinsky).
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 187, *pl. 121.* 1905 (portr.).
### Publications
##### n.20.377. Kleistogamische Blüthen bei Caryophylleen
**Title**
*Kleistogamische Blüthen bei Caryophylleen*... St. Petersburg (Buchdruckerei von Gebrüder Schumacher,...). 1878. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1878, p. \[1\]-6. *Copy*: U. − Reprinted and to be cited from Acta Horti Petropolitani 2: 489-494. 1878.
##### n.20.378. Notae de plantis asiaticis
**Title**
*Notae de plantis asiaticis*... \[Acta Horti Petropolitani 1891-1896\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*1*: 1891, p. i-xiii, publ. as Acta Horti Petropolitani 11(2), no. 16: 479-494. 1891.
*2*: 1892, p. xiv-xxvii, id. 12(1), no. 6: 161-178. 1892.
*3*: 1893, p. xxviii-xlviii, id. 13(1), no. 7: 89-106. 1893.
*4*: 1894, p. xlix-lxxi, id. 13(2), no. 18: 369-386. 1894.
*5*: 1895, p. lxxii-lxxxix, id. 14(1), no. 8: 165-184. 1895.
*6*: 1896, p. xc-xcv, id. 14(2), no. 11: 317-323. 1896.
*Copies*: G (in journal).