Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин) (1847–96)

Russian botanist and plant physiologist. Lecturer in botany, Mining Institute, 1870–9. Conservator, St Petersburg Botanical Garden, 1870; director, 1892. Founded a station at the garden for testing seeds and for economic botany in 1877. Professor of botany at the Imperial Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg, 1884–93. Wrote mostly on experimental plant physiology.