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stop to those most important publications, when 

 the new government has no immediate interest in 

 them. Our author endeavoured subsequently to 

 exhibit part at least of his botanical discoveries, in 

 less magnificent works, and by foreign assistance. 

 These volumes of the Empress truly merit the appel- 

 lation of magnificent; so much so, that they are 

 almost beyond the attainment of private individuals. 

 They are of imperial folio size, and the coloured 

 plates amounting, if we remember right, to nearly 

 a hundred, of large dimensions and high finish, are 

 truly beautiful and satisfactory. Each plant is 

 exhibited in its difi^erent stages of growth, on diiFe- 

 rent branches, — the bud, leaf, flower, and fruit. 

 The last plate is a finely coloured representation of 

 specimens of most of the native woods which are 

 used for economic purposes, amounting, we think, 

 to about twenty-five varieties. His next work on 

 botany was the history of the Astra^uli; then 

 another on the Halophytes^ and others on Ahsinthe$ 

 and the Armoises ; but the progress of the last was 

 arrested by the miseries of the German war. 



The interruption to the Professor's Flora Russica 

 did not prevent him from undertaking, as we before 

 hinted, a work equally extensive on the animals 

 {Fauna Asiat, Russica) of the empire, a region 

 which nourishes nearly all those of Europe, the 

 greater part of those of Asia, and which possesses a 

 great number that are peculiar to itself. One volume 

 of this work was printed at Petersburg; but for 

 several years at least it was not published. {Ehge^ 



