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brilliant flowers and ground-fruits of various kinds, swarming 

 with birds, and alive with mosquitoes. During this voyage 

 we had an excellent opportunity o£ making the acquaintance 

 of many native tribes, the Ost'-yak, the Tun-goosk', the Dol'- 

 gahn, the Yu-rak', and the Sam'-o-yade. 



On the 23rd of July I left Gol-cheek'-a in the last Russian 

 steamer up the river, and reached Yen-e-saisk' on the 14th 

 of August. After a few days' delay I drove across country to 

 Tomsk, stopping a day or two in Kras-no-yarsk'. In Tomsk 

 I found an excellent iron steamer, in which I sailed down 

 the river Tom into the Ob, down which we steamed to its 

 junction with the Eer'-tish, up which we proceeded until we 

 entered the Tob-ol', and afterwards steamed up the Too'-ra 

 to Tyu-main', a distance by water of 2200 miles. From Tyu- 

 main'I drove through Ekatereenburg across the Urals to Perm, 

 where I took my passage on board the ' Sam-o-lot',' or self- 

 flyer, down the Kama, and up the Volga, to Nishni-Novgorod. 

 In St. Petersburg I spent a week, and reached London on 

 the 9th of October, bringing with me more than a thousand 

 skins of birds, about five hundred eggs, and a cart-load of 

 native costumes and other ethnological curiosities. I every- 

 where met with the greatest kindness and courtesy, and am 

 very much indebted to friends, too numerous to mention, 

 who assisted me in many ways during my adventurous journey 

 of more than fifteen thousand miles. 



The study of zoology is, I am afraid, more and more neg- 

 lected in Russia ; but there is stiU some amount of field-work 

 going on. Taczanowski, the Curator of the Museum at 

 Warsaw, still receives from Dr. Dybowsky ornithological 

 collections from Lake Baical. Professor Strebelow, at Kras- 

 no-yarsk', is an accomplished entomologist, and would, I am 

 sure, be glad to assist any European collector. Professor 

 Szoffzoff, at Omsk, is an excellent entomologist, and has also 

 a good knowledge of birds. The Kazan collection is in fair 

 order ; but few of the birds in the Museum possess localities 

 or dates, and none of the Professors make ornithology a special 

 branch of study. The Evcrsma'nn collection has been sold 

 to the Museum at St. Petersburg for an old song. Sabanaefl', 



