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botanist proceeds, this herbarium will become still more im- 

 portant. 



For a detailed account of the Russian botanical collections 

 and collectors, we may refer to a historical sketch of the 

 progress of botany in Russia, etc., by Mr. Bongard, the super- 

 intendent of the Imperial Academy's herbarium at St. Peters- 

 burg, published in the "Recueil des Actes" of this institution 

 for 1834. An English translation of this memoir is published 

 in the first volume of Hooker's " Companion to the Botanical 

 Magazine." 



