48 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Dr. Nordmann, resides there. He is a most zealous natu- 
ralist, a native of Finland, who travelled with Demidoff's party 
in the Crimea, undertaking the zoological, and especially 
ichthyological department. He has devoted a good deal of 
time to geology, and made considerable palæozoological 
collections, especially of fossil shells, &c., in the Crimea, 
and has within the last few weeks discovered some rich 
dépots of fossil bones of Mammiferee in the neighbourhood of 
Odessa. In Botany he has made very complete collections 
of the Odessa Flora, which he is about to publish, after having 
submitted a set of the plants to Grisebach's examination, 
and has gathered much in the Caucasus and the Crimea, 
which he has visited fourteen times. [I made an interest- 
ing herborisation with him on the sea coast, near Odessa, 
where we found on the 7th of October, between twenty and 
thirty good plants still in flower, exclusive of common things 
which I did not think worth gathering. 
In the Crimea, I, to my very great regret, missed the 
patriarch of South Russian Botany, your correspondent M. de 
Steven, of whom every one speaks so highly. When I passed 
through Sympheropol, he was absent for a short time at 
Ekaterinostaff. Notwithstanding his age, he is said to be 
zealous as ever in the cause of botany, and his knowledge of 
Crimean and South Russian plants to be as intimate as his 
collection is extensive. 
The Botanical Garden of Nikita on the south coast of - 
the Crimea, under the direction of M. Hartweiss, is much 
more horticultural than botanical, the object being not 
that of instruction for an university or medical school, but 
the dissemination and the encouraging the planting of trees 
and shrubs which may be usefully grown on the south coast. 
There are, therefore, no botanical collections attached to  - 
it, nor has the Director means of devoting himself to Botany oe 
as a science. - 
Poor Turezaninoff is now established with his collection at 
Taganrog, which was unfortunately too far for me to attempt — — 
paying him a visit. On his arrival at Dr not = had i 
