1. * Society of Fellows, 78 Mount Auburn Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; mgordin@fas.harvard.edu. I would like to thank Mario Biagioli, W. H. Brock, Nathan Brooks, Igor S. Dmitriev, Peter Galison, Loren Graham, Karl Hall, John Heilbron, Matthew Jones, and Sam Schweber for many helpful discussions and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. I also gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of the D.I. Mendeleev Archive-Museum (ADIM) and the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA). Part of this research was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).
2. The following abbreviations are used: ADIM, Arkhiv-Muzei D.I. Mendeleeva (D.I. Mendeleev Archive-Museum); MS, followed by volume number in roman numerals, D.I. Mendeleev, Sochineniia (25 vols., Leningrad: Izd. AN SSSR, 1934-1954); RGIA, Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv (Russian State Historical Archive); TIIEiT, Trudy Instituta istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki; VIET, Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki; ZhRFKhO, Zhurnal Russkogo Fiziko-Khimicheskogo Obshchestva. Most dates are given in the Julian calendar, which lagged 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar (N.S.) in the 19th century, and 13 days in the 20th. Transliterations follow a modification of the standard Library of Congress format.
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4. 1 MENDELEEV'S EARLY RESEARCH
5. 1 Kratkoe istoricheskoe obozrenie deistviia Glavnago pedagogicheskago instituta, 1828-1859 g. (St. Petersburg, 1859), 2-5.