"....Dead body of an infant, with 6 fingers, horn by 

 a daughter of Tikhanov who was working on a marine ship 

 Astrakhan. . .given in Kunstkamera" ("Materials..." V. II, 

 1886, No. 99, November 29, 1731, p. 83). 



"On January 17 of this same year, my brother sent a 

 monster which had 2 mouths, the daughter of Ulita Kiryanova 

 the wife of sergeant Nikivor Kosharov gave birth to it: 

 this monster had four hands, four legs and two faces, one 

 had normal view and the other had one eye" ("Materials...", 

 V. Ill, 1886, No. 13, January 20, 1736, p. 14). 



"This monster was accepted for preservation in 

 Kunstkamera and Kosharov was given 4 roubles as a reward" 

 (there is also, No. 41, February 17, p. 36) (23). 



(5) Iogani-Georg Dyuvernua (1691-1759) a Russian 



academician in the department of zoology and anatomy, was 

 invited to the academy during its foundation. In 1741, by 

 efforts of Shumakher, he was compelled to leave work and 

 travel to his homeland, in Germany. Following him, up to 

 1758 Abraham Kaau-Boerhave (1715-1758) had been in charge 

 the department of anatomy and physiology in the Academy of 

 Science. In his era, the anatomical and embryological 

 collections of the academy came into being, but he practi- 

 cally did not use them. He published one of them in detail 

 (Abraham Kaau-Boerhave was related to those foreigners, 

 living in Russia, who did not make anything for promoting 

 its sciences and for preparing the young Russian scien- 

 tists (23) . 



(6) Family of van der Hulst was repeatedly mentioned 

 in the documents of Petrovskaya epoch. Doctor Zakharii van 

 der Hulst arrived in Moscow from Holland, apparently in the 

 70s of the 17th century, and for a long time he was the 

 physician of Aptekarsky department and court physician at 

 tsars Ivan and Petr. Then after the death of Ivan, he 

 became the physician of Petr I. He accompanied him on 

 both journeys to Arkhangelsk (1693 and 1694). On the 

 second Journey, he die-' suddenly* . Another van der Hulst 



V. Rikhter. "Istoriya meditsiny v Rossii" (History of 

 Medicine in Russia), p. 2, Moscow, 1820, p. 313, 

 M. M. Bogoslovskii, Petr I, V. I, p. 181= V. II, 

 1941, pp. 123-124. 



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