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daughter of M. von Struve, the Russian Minister at Hamburg, who, 

 with one son, survives him. 



Carl Anton Meyer, the intimate friend and coUahorateur of Dr. 

 Fischer in many of his works, and his successor as Director of the 

 Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg, was bom, of German 

 parentage, in the capital city of Witepsk. He was educated at the 

 University of Dorpat, and accompanied Professor Ledebour, whose 

 pupil he was, in a journey in Southern Russia, and afterwards in 

 1826 in his celebrated journey, iindertaken at the expense of the 

 University, to the Altai Mountains and the neighbouring Steppes, 

 to the examination of which Dr. Meyer's attention was more 

 especially directed. The Journal of his separate tour through the 

 Kirghis- Steppe from Barnaul to Noor-Saisan and Altyn-Tube, 

 occupies the greater part of the second volume of the Narrative of 

 Prof. Ledebour's Journey, pubUshed at Berlin in 1830. The plants 

 collected by the three companions, during the summer of 1826, 

 consisting of about 1 600 Phanerogamse, formed the matericds of the 

 " Flora Altaica," published by their joint labours in 4 vols. Svo, 

 Berlin, 1829-1833. In 1829 Dr. Meyer was named by the Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg to accompany M. Kupfer as botanist 

 in an Expedition to the Environs of !Mount Elbruz and the Caucasus, 

 undertaken by order of the Emperor, and on which a Report, made 

 to the Academy, was published by M. Kupfer in 1830. Dr. Meyer's 

 own Report, entitled " Verzeichniss der Pflanzen, welche wahrend 

 der, in den Jahren 1829 und 1830, unternommenen Reise im Cau- 

 casus und in den Provinzen am WestHchen Ufer des Caspischen 

 Meeres gefunden und eingesammelt worden sind," was pubHshed at 

 St. Petersburg in 1831. It gives a complete enumeration of the 

 Phjenogamous plants collected, in number nearly 2000, with the 

 characters of many new genera and species, together with au itinerary 

 of the journey, and some account of the locaUties in which the col- 

 lections were chiefly made. These two important publications at 

 once placed Dr. Meyer in a high rank among Russian botanists, and 

 procured his admission into the Academy of St. Petersburg. From 

 the year 1835 he was associated with Dr. Fischer in several works 

 above enumerated in the notice of that botanist ; and he contributed 

 numerous papers to the ' Memoires ' of the Imperial Academy. The 

 titles of these are as follows : " Bemerkungen iiber einige Hymeno- 

 brychisarten," 1837 ; "Das Alyssum minutum und die zunachst ver- 

 wandten Arten monographisch bearbeitet," 1840; "Bemerkungen 

 iiber die naturliche Familie der Polygonaceit,'' 1840; " Florula Pro- 



