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LIST OF MY ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS ETC. 
1871 (August) to 1873 (September) 
Years of travel. 
(Biographical.) In 1871 I hail resigned my post of Consul General of Russia 
in New York, remaining, nevertheless, iiyJiplomatic service (en disponibilite ). 
In this capacity I still had some official duties to perform, which kept me 
travelling for nearly two years. During these years of locomotion I had many 
opportunities of visiting Museums and entomologists, as well as meeting my 
relatives, scatteied in different localities. I shall now give a brief account 
of these peregrinations. 
After my resignation, I sailed for Europe (August 5 1871), and, by 
way of Bremen, came to Berlin, and then to Baden-Baden (the residence, 
at that time of my mother); then to Switzerland, where I travelled in diffe¬ 
rent directions through the whole month of September and a part of October, 
returning finally to Baden-Baden. In November, by way of Frankfurt o/M. 
and Leipzig, I paid a visit to Loew in Guben (Novbr. 3—5), after that, I 
visited Warsaw (Novbr. 6—10) and went to St. Petersburg, where I stayed 
for nearly two months. I left it at end of December, anil came to Berlin on 
the 1st of January 1872. After depositing there an official parcel (with 
which I had been entrusted by the Foreign Office in St. Petersburg) I con¬ 
tinued my journey on the same day towards Baden-Baden, where I spent a 
week with my mother. Then by way of Paris, I reached Brest, embarked 
in the “l’ereire” and lauded in New York (Febr. 4) after a cold and stormy 
passage. After spending five mouths in the United States, dividing my time 
between New York and Cambridge, Mass., I sailed from New York (July 11) 
by the Hamburg steamer “Silesia”, and arrived in Berlin (July 24). Here 
my official peregrinations came to an end, and I was henceforth free to 
travel for my own pleasure. I visited successively Denmark (from Kiel, 
over the Islands Funen and Zealand to Copenhagen, July 26 — August 2); 
then, by way or Malmo, Lund 1 , Gothenburg, Trolhattan, Wenersborg to 
Stockholm (Aug. 7—11) and Upsala (Aug. 12); from Stockholm by steamer 
to Ltibeck (Aug. 16), by Berlin (Aug. 23—26), Guben (with Loew, August 
23—35), Munich, Salzburg, to Gastein, where I spent three weeks (Aug. 31 
— Sept. 21), taking the water-cure, much needed by me after all my exer¬ 
tions. Much restored by Gastein, I made up my mind to spend the winter 
in Italy. I began with the delightful Riva, on the Lago di Garda (Sept. 27 
1872) and remained in Italy till the spring of 1873, visiting successively, 
and making more or less prolonged residences at Verona, Venice, Padua, Bo¬ 
logna, Ravenna, Lucca, Perugia, Pisa, Florence, Parma, Rome, Naples, Mes¬ 
sina, Taormina, Catanea, Syracuse, Palermo, Genoa, Turin, Pavia etc. Be- 
1 In Lund, I did myself the honor to pay a visit to Zetterstedt, but 
did not see him; he excused himself on account of his old age (at that time 87!), 
but invited me to examine his collection. I did not, however, accept this offer, 
as it would have detained me too long. At Upsala, I paid a visit to the vener¬ 
able mycologist Fries, at that time 78, a very amiable old man. 
