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* Am glad to note, that your Celebration of tlie HundrecHli Anni- 

 versary of the Birth of the noted Botanist, Maximowicz, who carried in 

 the years from i860 to 1S63 the pioneer work of the Exploration of the 

 Flora mainly of Hakodate and Nagasaki, stresses especially the sym- 

 pathetica! establishment of scientific and cultural ties between the Rus- 

 sian and Japanese peoples. Wholeheartiiy with the further close rap- 



