BOTANICAL INFORMATION. (43 
Notes of a Continental Tour, in ihe summer and autumn of 
1846 ; extracted from letters addressed to the Editor by a 
Bolanical friend. 
(Continued from Page 534, Vol. V.) 
Moscow, September 1, 1846. 
Among the Petersburgh botanists I believe I omitted in 
my last letter to mention Dr. Weinmann, Director of the 
Pavlovsky gardens, wlio has been studying a good deal the 
Cryptogamia of Russia, and has lately published a syllabus 
of Russian mosses, besides some occasional articles on 
garden plants, which he cultivates with great zeal. I was 
much pleased with his acquaintance, which I made at Pav- 
lovsky the day before we left St. Petersburgh. The Moscow 
collections in Natural History suffer from the rivalry of the 
new capital, which of course gets much mdre support from 
Government ; yet there are some zealous botanists here, and 
an active publishing Natural History Society, whose “ Bulle- 
tin? is well known to you. The principal herbaria are those 
of the Société des Naturalistes, and of the University, both 
in the same building, and about to be united. They consist 
chiefly of Ehrhart’s herbarium, perhaps not quite com- 
plete, Hoffmann’s (the Umbelliferous writer) of about 8 
species, Trinius’ general herbarium of about 5000; sib. are 
_ in good preservation, in bundles enclosed in pasteboard boxes, 
and these again deposited on the shelves of the presses: 
and, amongst modern plants, besides à number of miscel- 
. laneous parcels received from correspondents, the very rich 
Russo-Asiatic and Kirghis collections of Karelin—a rival to 
: . Turczaninoff's in the number and beauty of the specimens. — 
d Besides other collections, Mr. Richter, the librarian of the — 
. Imperial University library, has a private herbarium of his E oe 
own, very rich in Russian plants, and containing also a general 
collection. There are besides some small Russian herbaria 
made by private mites s and a eased collection - VE 
