54 MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 
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 different stages of growth, on diffe- 
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 Astraguli; then 
another on the Halophytes, and others on A bsinthes 
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. (Loge, 
