The article publishes previously unknown materials for the biographies of academicians V. I. Vernadsky and A. E. Fersman, found by author in Professor D. P. Grigoriev’s archive, stored Russian Mineralogical Society. These are memoirs mineralogist Ya. Mikey, autobiography Fersman his personal file, signed academician Obruchev. All documents have been deciphered, annotated commented on author. re...

whose composition began at about the time of the Buddha (d. c. 400 BC). Sigalea describes the early medicine recoverable from Vedic and Upanisadic sources, its relationship with the nascent Indian philosophical schools, and the formation of the Sanskrit medical canon. In the following thirty chapters he provides a comprehensive account of Indian classical medicine, including the formation of th...