ANNIVERSARY The Botanical Gardens of Iași on its 165th anniversary » CĂTĂLIN TĂNASE and CONSTANTIN MARDARI, Science and culture for nature in the Botanical Gardens of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași ...................... 7 » MONICA NĂNESCU, Gheorghe Alexa, a great personality of the Romanian leather chemistry ................................................................................................................... 53 MATHEMATICS – PHYSICS » ALEXANDRA SAVIUC, MIHAIL FRĂSILĂ, ȘTEFAN ANDREI IRIMICIUC and MARICEL AGOP, On a "holographic implementation" in the dynamics of physical systems .................................................................................................................................... 59 MATHEMATICS » ARUN KUMAR and HIMANSHU PANDEY, Parameter estimation of exponentiated Rayleigh distribution under different loss functions ....................................................... 81ANTHROPOLOGY » VASILICA-MONICA GROZA, LUMINIȚA BEJENARU and MǍDǍLIN-CORNEL VǍLEANU, Bioanthropological, study of human skulls from the Mausoleum Crypt of the First World War heroes, in Iași (Iaşi, County, Romania) ............................................... 91 » VASILICA-MONICA GROZA, MARIANA POPOVICI, LUMINIȚA BEJENARU and OZANAMARIA PETRARU, Dental pathologies and anomalies in a sample of human skulls from the Mausoleum Crypt of the First World War heroes in Iași (Romania) ...... 103 » ANGELA SIMALCSIK and ION CIOBANU, The late mediaeval necropolis of Alcedar. Anthropological data ............................................................................ 121 » ROBERT DANIEL SIMALCSIK, Weapons – killing tools. Testimony of old and new mass graves ............................................................................................................. 139