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which he entered with Botanists and Col- 
lectors, who were dispersed to the extreme 
parts of Siberia; finally, the cost of keep- 
ing up the Gorenki Garden, amounted to 
considerable sums, the annual expenditure 
averaging 60,000 roubles, while it some- 
times cost the Count more than twice that 
sum, and even reached to 150,000 roubles. 
Thus it may be justly conceded, that the 
Count deserved well of his own country, 
and that history will long preserve his 
name in honourablé memory. 
A taste for Botany having been thus 
diffused in the Russian empire, its zealous 
‘friends, some of whom were found in very 
distant provinces, contributed to the dis- 
covery of new plants, or to a more correct 
knowledge of those, which had not been 
sufficiently known, and to their propaga- 
tion among Botanists. M. Haupt had herb- 
orized in the environs of Tobolsk, where 
he lived several years, and the frequent 
journeys, which the duties of the service 
compelled him to make, were productive 
of noble harvests of plants. M. Rytschkoff, 
Director of the Mines et Nertschink, col- 
lected the plants of Baikal, while M. Vlal- 
soff, a retired Major in the Army, living at 
Doroninsk upon the Ingoda, transmitted 
several valuable collections from Dahuria. 
. A surgeon, called Zalesoff, explored the 
Altaic Mountains, and made many disco- 
veries, among which the most precious are 
the plants which he gathered with the 
. younger Schanguin, on the banks of the 
Tschouia . 
Dr. Gebler, at Barnaoul, who has annu- 
ally sent large collections of plants and 
sof Ronny and Entomology, and has ren- 
dered eminent service to the Altaic Flora. 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 
, tions of the countries which they tra 
Goldbach, and others, have described m 
new plants, detected in various province 
of Russia, .especially the most remarkab 
ones of Siberia and Caucasus. 
The celebrated Professor Hoffmann, w 
ideas respecting the Umbelhfere, whi 
was brought to light during the author's 
residence at Gorenki, after the conflagra- 
tion of Moscow. The publication of an im- 
Baron Bieberstein, author of a Flora, in. 
two octavo volumes, which appeared in 
lation of new species, has occasioned the 
addition of a thick supplementary volume, 
which besides numerous observations, con- 
tains three hundred and twenty more pur 
The magnificent folio work, with colo 
plates, on the rare Caucasian Plants, com- 
has never been completed. 
superintends its continuation, and the six 
he has given to their productions, paving 
enabled him to make numerous and im- 
portant discoveries. 
searches of Messrs. Wilhelms at Tiflis, 
Wunderlich at Sarepta, and of Dr. i. 
sen, have also added to the value of 
ora. 
The Embassy of Count Golownin 
China has also proved useful to science. 
The Academy, eager to avail themselves 
of such an opportunity, nominated two ot 
its associate members, MM. Adams 
Rédowsky, to accompany it, the fo! 
as a Zoologist, the latter as a 
Though this mission failed in effecting 
immediate object, still the Naturalists 
were attached to it, explored the proc 
