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notanic garden contains about 30 acres. The 
y two 
The Leningrad 
conservatory collections are very extensive. I mention on 
small but thriving specimens of Welwitschia mirabilis. They were 
in double pots, the outer only watered. They came from seeds 
en, South Africa. On my return 
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pony 
from Stellenbosch Botanic Garc 
to Brooklyn I found we also had acquired this interesting plant 
during my absence. 
The main building was completed just before the war. The 
very large herbarium is divided geographically into six divisions: 
European Russia, Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia, Northern China, 
and one division for other parts of the world. The specimens are 
arranged under the Dalla Torre and Harms generic numbers. For 
example, Frankenia occurs under 5233 under these various divi- 
sions. 
Mr. Ohl, librarian, kindly took out the most important systematic 
works of which I made a list, which was afterwards extended by 
Dr. Fedchenko. J was assured there would be no difficulty in 
making an approximate list of the genera of the higher plants 
within the Soviet Union. 
The Institute of Applied Botany, in a central part of the city, 
was being remodeled. It has extensive collections of varieties of 
wheat and of economic plants in general. At the Zoological Mu- 
seum I saw the famous Siberian mammoth. I also visited the 
Museum of Anthropology, the Hermitage Art Museum, and the 
Winter Palace, formerly the Czar’s residence, now a Museum of 
the Revolution, with pictures of war and suffering. 
From Leningrad I returned to Helsingfors and travelled by 
steamer for two days on the Baltic to Stettin, Germany, then by 
train to Berlin, where I also remained ten days. The first day in 
Berlin I saw a group marching with a red flag: “ Fur Sovjet gegen 
Young,” nevertheless, Berlin looked much more prosperous than 
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a 
Leningrad. 
Dr. Engler, world famous systematist, for nearly forty years 
director of the Berlin Botanic Garden, had died in his 87th year, 
just before my visit, and, like Theophrastus of old, was buried in 
his garden. 
My stay in Berlin was favored with ideal fall weather, which 
encouraged walks in the botanic garden and the Grtinewald forest 
not far away. Here poplar trees and also locusts were still green. 
