![MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Two autograph letters to Nikolai Petrovich [Vagner] signed ['D. Mendeleev'], n.p. [possibly Kazan'], 9th January 1875 and 25th September 1875, in Russian, the first referring to previous correspondence with Butlerov, Aksakov and Petrushevskii and the formation of a committee [not specified], expressing his disapproval of it and threatening to report to the Higher Authorities, the second saying that the cost of printing a book would be 500 rubles, and referring again to Butlerov, 4 pages, 8°.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CSK/2003_CSK_09745_0037_000(064213).jpg?w=1)
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MENDELEEV, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907). Two autograph letters to Nikolai Petrovich [Vagner] signed ['D. Mendeleev'], n.p. [possibly Kazan'], 9th January 1875 and 25th September 1875, in Russian, the first referring to previous correspondence with Butlerov, Aksakov and Petrushevskii and the formation of a committee [not specified], expressing his disapproval of it and threatening to report to the Higher Authorities, the second saying that the cost of printing a book would be 500 rubles, and referring again to Butlerov, 4 pages, 8°.
Written in his distinctive, practically illegible, script with some words elided, Mendeleev is possibly referring to the committee investigating spiritualism and mediums, which had recently been imported from England. N. P. Vagner, a zoologist and professor at Kazan' and St. Petersburg Universities, wrote memoirs of his colleague Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-86), also a professor at both Universities, and rector of the former. Their interest, along with F. M. Dostoevskii, in 'spiritizm' and 'mediumizm' was well-known, but disapproved of by the scientist Mendeleev. (2)
Written in his distinctive, practically illegible, script with some words elided, Mendeleev is possibly referring to the committee investigating spiritualism and mediums, which had recently been imported from England. N. P. Vagner, a zoologist and professor at Kazan' and St. Petersburg Universities, wrote memoirs of his colleague Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-86), also a professor at both Universities, and rector of the former. Their interest, along with F. M. Dostoevskii, in 'spiritizm' and 'mediumizm' was well-known, but disapproved of by the scientist Mendeleev. (2)
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