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Directors: 
_E. L. Fischer (1843-1850) 
_ A. Meyer (1850-1855) 
_K. Kuster (1855-1857) 
Regel (1857-1865 ) 
Trautvetter (1865-1875 ) 
Regel (1875-1892) 
Batalin (1892-1896 ) 
Fischer de Waldheim (1896-7) 
L. Isacenko (1928) 
A. Keller (1937) 
Serves as a ae park. Open daily free. Library: Reference. 
About 48,000 volumes and pamphlets. Herbarium: More than 
3,000,000 specimens. Plantations: Systematic, geographic, eco- 
nomic, local flora. Fruticetum and arboretum. Delectus Sem- 
inum. Museum: Open three times weekl Tuesday, Thursday 
and Saturday, at three o’clock. Admission only * by order.’ 
Free lectures were given occasionally at the garden. Study col- 
lections of herbarium specimens, dried seeds, alcoholic (formalin ) 
material, microscopic slides, economic plant products, and photo- 
.graphs were loaned to schools. Living material, including wild 
plants, was supplied when requested to both public and private 
schools 
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| SREP OR ERAS 
Nore: The above data were obtained before the World War. 
The only information we have been able to obtain since then is as 
follows, received in March, 1937, from Prof. N. I. Vavilov, Di- 
rector of the U. S. S. R. Institute of Plant Industry of the Lenin 
Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 
“The Botanical Garden in Leningrad belongs now to the Botan- 
ical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U. 5. 5. R. It 
has one of the biggest herbariums in our country, containing sev- 
eral millions of specimens. It has two kilometers of greenhouses 
with an enormous collection of living plants, as well as a beautiful 
garden. There are several laboratories. . .. In Leningrad we 
have only one Botanical Garden; it is called the Main Botanical 
Garden of the Academy of Sciences.” . . . In 1912 there was the 
200th anniversary of this Doe and three big volumes of its his- 
tory were published. .. . The Director of this Garden is Pro 
B. A. Keller.” 
