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The date, 1843, given by our Petrograd correspondent before 
the World War, must refer to a reorganization. In the Botan- 
ische Zeitung (18: 138. 1860) there is an article, Uber den 
botanischen garten in St. Petersburg, by Prof. Ferdinand Cohn 
(Breslau) stating that this Botanic Garden was established by 
Peter the Great in 1714 (vs. 1712 implied by the date of the 200th 
anniversary celebration), ‘‘ Eleven years after the foundation of 
the City,” (1703). Cohn says further: 
“For one hundred years the Garden made little progress, but, 
during the reign of Alexander the First, F. E. L. Fischer, formerly 
in charge of the gardens of Count Al. Rasumoffsky, at Gorenki, 
near Moskow, became director. Under Fischer the Garden be- 
came a first-class botanical institution.” 
LENINGRAD (2) 
DENDROLOGICAL GARDEN 
Forest-Technical Academy, Leningrad 18. Seed List. 
MINSK 
30TANIC GARDEN OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF WHITE 
Russia 
Established: 1930. Area: 98 hectares. 
Director: S. P. Mjelnik (1936). Delectus Seminum. 
Note: A portion of the Garden is a nature reserve. 
MOSCOW (1) 
BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE UNIversITY oF Moscow 
(BoTANITSCHESKIJ SAD) 
1 Meshchanskaja, 28, Moscow 10 
Established: 1707. Area: © hectares. 
Directors: 
Hoffmann (1804-1824) 
Maskymowich (1824-1834) 
Fisher von Waldheim (1834-1860) 
N. J. Kaufmann (1860-1870 
Chistakof (1870-1873) 
. Goroshakyn (1873-1900) 
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