and were afterwards directed by the Aca- 
demy to other districts of the empire which 
it was important to investigate. M. Adams, 
known by his travels in Caucasus, with 
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from Ourga, the place of meeting for the 
members of the Embassy, was sent to Ir- 
kutsk, whence he was to descend the Lena 
as far as its confluence with the Icy Sea, 
and to examine the shores both of that 
ocean and of the river, collecting in all the 
three departments of the kingdom of nature. 
There he made the memorable discovery 
of the Mammoth, and also brought home 
a great number of plants, the most inter- 
esting of which are described in the An- 
nals of the Naturalists' Society of Moscow. 
Rédowsky, when he returned from Irkutsk, 
went to Jakoutsk, and passing over the 
chain of the lofty Aldan Mountains, arrived 
at Oudsky-Ostrog. Thence, coasting along, 
he reached Okhotsk, where he remained 
till the period for travelling by sledges ar- 
rived, in order to follow the instructions of 
the Academy by proceeding to 
schatka, whence he was directed to attempt 
making successive excursions to the Alen- 
tian and Kurile Isles, as well as to those of 
Schantar and Sachalin. A most toilsome 
and harassing journey brought him to Is- 
chiginsk, where he miserably closed his 
career. 
chiefly lost; a small portion however remains 
with the Academy, and another having fallen 
into the hands of M. Chamisso, when he re- 
sided in Kamtschatka, this great Botanist 
has published several of its rarest and most 
. interesting species. Many other novelties, 
collected by Rédowsky, have been de- 
scribed by the Academician Rudolphi. 
- M. Helm, the Apothecary to the Em- 
bassy, brought home fine collections from 
this expedition, as well as from another 
— Which he made to the Ural Mountains, at 
the expense of the Society of Naturalists ; 
but all these treasures perished in the con- 
flagration of the capital. 
The vegetation of Volhynia and Podo- 
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PROGRESS OF BOTANY IN RUSSIA. 
Count Mussin Puschkin, having returned. 
His collections have been: 
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searches. This Naturalist, then Professor 
at Kremenitz, now placed in the New 
University of St. Vladimir, at Kieff, is well 
known, as a learned and distinguished Bo- 
tanist; and science has been enriched, by 
him, with many new plants, and also with 
exact and judicious observations. His at- 
tention is now engaged by a Memoir on 
the Wormwoods (Artemisia), destined to 
form part of the fifth volume of Professor 
De Candolle's Prodromus. Professor Eich- 
wald, at Wilna, has published a Set of rare 
Plants, detected in his journey to Caucasus 
and the Caspian, and a Second Set is in 
the press, and ready to appear. To M. 
Karelm, we owe the discovery of many very 
scarce and novel vegetables, which he ga- 
thered on the eastern shores of that sea. 
Thus has the study of Botany gradually 
diffused itself among us, and excited the 
zeal of Naturalists by the abundance of its 
productions. One institution, which emi- 
nently contributed towards its advance- © 
ment, we owe to the Empress Maria Fede- 
rowna, whose memory, dear to Russia, will 
be ever cherished among us. Botany was 
one of her favourite pursuits, she felt all 
its charms. By her, the lovely Garden of 
Paulowsky was created, where she de- 
lighted to spend her leisure hours among 
its flowers; the contemplation of those 
charming productions of all countries and 
all climes, with the variety of their colours. 
and perfumes, elevating her pure mind in 
adoration to their Creator, and cherishing _ 
those religious sentiments and that humane 
beneficence, which marked the whole course 
of her blameless life. The organization of 
this beautiful garden is the work of M. 
Weinmann, who had distinguished him- 
self, previously, by the success with which ~~ 
he had originated and conducted the Bo- 
tanic Garden of Dorpat. Many, also, are 
his claims on the gratitude of Naturalists : 
he has published many new and rare plants; 
and no one has investigated the Flora of 
St. Petersburg with equal care. The study : | 
of the Cryptogamia engrosses much of his — 
attention, and to him we owe the first com- - 
plete Essay on the numerous species of 
Fungus which grow in this vicinity. This 
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