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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 7-] ; 1913. 
XLI—THE IMPERIAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF PETER 
: THE GREAT AT ST. PETERSBURG. 
(With Plates.) 
O, STAPF. 
institutions and from foreign countries. The Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, and the Physic Garden, Chelsea, were represented 
by the writer of this article. 
e meeting was preceded by a Te Deum, after which the 
Minister of Agriculture and Crown Domains opened the proceedings 
with a short address and the reading of a rescript from the Emperor 
by which the name of the Garden was changed into that of Imperial 
Botanic Garden of Peter the Great. Then followed an oration by 
the Director, Professor Fischer von Waldheim, dealing with the 
history and the functions, past and present, of the Garden, and the 
reading of the addresses, first of the foreign delegates and then of 
the representatives of the Russian learned societies and corporations 
and other bodies connected with botany. The address embodying 
the greetings and congratulations of Kew runs as follows :— 
“On the Occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the 
foundation of the Imperial Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg, the 
oyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, beg to join with other Botanical 
Establishments throughout the world in the expression of warm 
congratulations and good wishes 
“The cordial relations which in the past have subsisted between 
the sister institutions have benefited both gardens and furthered 
the cause of that science to which the two are devoted. That 
these relations may be as distinctive of the future, that the services 
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