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lured to this northern capital largely by the remarkable collection 

 of Pacific specimens given by the surviving officers of Cook's 

 vessels to the Governor of Kamchatka in acknowledgment of his 

 kindness in furnishing the expedition with much-needed supplies. 

 These presents had been forwarded to the Russian Government 

 and lost in the Government storehouses for more than a century 

 (much as the collections of Vancouver's expedition had been lost 

 in Eugland) and only two or three years ago brought to light. 

 As I have been promised photographs of the more important ob- 

 jects, I will say but little of this collection here, but hope to publish 

 with other documents an account of the genuine Cook relics in 

 this and other museums on which we have made notes in our 

 journey. It is perhaps fitting that here, where the great navigator 

 met his death, his memory should be recalled in an exhibit of the 

 trophies his ships brought home and his Government allowed to be 

 scattered through museums, both public and private, until few 

 remain in his own country.' 



The Imperial Academy has many branches and museums: 

 the Library, founded in 1728, contains 500,000 books and 13,000 

 MSS.: Archive Department contains the correspondence, records, 

 and publications ; a Priutery ; Physical Cabinet ; Physiological 

 Laboratory ; Zoological Laboratory ; Laboratory for Plant Anato- 

 my and Physiology ; Biological Station at Sebastopol ; Seismic 

 Laboratory; Russian Bureau of International Bibliography; Cen- 

 tral Physical Observatory (founded in 1849), and of museums 

 besides the Ethnographical already mentioned, Asiatic Museum ; 

 Coin Cabinet; Geological Museum of Peter the Great ; Botanical 

 Museum; Zoological Museum; all under separate directors and 

 with full staffs of distinguished scientists. I have found nowhere 

 so broad an organization of an academy of sciences. The Zoo- 

 logical Museum deserves a longer notice, but in brief it is divided 

 into two parts more distinct than usual, the collection open to the 

 public installed in two large halls, where the labels are printed in 

 Russian and Latin, the animals found in Russia having red labels; 

 and the scientific collection, open only to competent students. 

 Of the remarkable specimens are the skeleton of a whale {JBala- 



1 Unfortunately I neglected to make sketches of the I [awaiian things as the 

 Director promised to send me photographs <>t the whole collection, .is well as 

 specimens of the many fine kapa Bheets, none of which have arrived as yet. 



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