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The names of Severguin, Ambodick, Sme- 
lowsky, Dwigoubsky, Petrow, Martinow, 
Goraninow, Maximovitsch, and several 
others, suffice to attest their merit. 
In now terminating this sketch of the 
rise and progress of Botany, in Russia, 
think I have proved that this branch of 
Natural History is by no means neglected 
among us; that its study has followed, with 
progressive steps, the course of science ; 
and that the latter owes many and import- 
ant discoveries, to the labours of its Rus- 
sian votaries. They it is who have made 
known the numerous vegetables that clothe 
the surface of this vast empire; and who 
have furnished the most valuable materials 
towards the Geography of Botany. 
It must, perhaps, be admitted that Phy- 
totomy and Vegetable Physiology have not 
derived equal advantages from the labours 
- of our Botanists ; a circumstance probably 
owing to the enormous mass of hitherto 
unnoticed productions which claimed their 
attention, and left them little leisure to at- 
tend to the advance of these more abstruse 
and theoretical branches of the science. 
The investigations of the Academician 
Kélreuter, however, on the subject of the 
x *fecundation of plants, are too important to 
be overlooked; he it is who proved, to 
very demonstration, the sexuality of ve- 
getables, and cleared up many difficult 
points respecting their fecundation, while 
his admirable experiments upon hybrid 
plants have proved most interesting and 
important to science. Nor can I neglect 
to mention a savant, whom Russia pos- 
sessed, and with whom originated the idea 
of the metamorphoses of plants. 
who brought them into notice, acknow- 
ed that he was indebted for them to 
; the Academician Wolff, a man of com- 
. manding talent, whose writings first hinted 
at this fact. Russia, consequently, may 
gn the honour of the discovery. It may 
be said, many as are the foreign 
names that L appear among the Botanists of 
jamaj 
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like me, had received there an honoura 
welcome and an adopted country? 
by their noble and useful works, 
ave paid their debt of gratitude to the 
generous and enlightened sovereigns, w 
encouraged them to settle in their do 
nions, and under whose auspices so 
scientific enterprizes and voyages of 
covery have been undertaken, the enti 
honour of which appertains to Russia. 
crowned with equal success, in the diffu- 
sion of useful knowledge! 
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( Continued from p. 85. ) 
The indefstignble Professor of Botany 
in the London Uniig, Dr. Lindley, 
has just published, almost at one and the 
same time, a new edition, with corrections 
and numerous additions, of his valuable 
** Introduction to Botany ;" anew e edition 
of the “ Synopsis of the British Flora,” 
* with numerous additions, correc- 
Secs: and improvements;" and a new w 
entitled, a ** Key to Structural, Physiolo- 
gical, and Systematic Botany, for the 
of Classes :” all of which we cordi 
recommend to the attention of students 
and every one interested in the advance- 
E 
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plained, in the author’s own words, in the 
preface. 
“The idea of this book was suggested 
to me by the difficulty experienced by 8 
teachers, in explaining to their stude 
what are the most prominent and imp 
ant points in Botany, on which to fix the: 
attention.. I found that when axioms » 
thrown into an extended and descri xs 
form, and mixed up with discussions wh 
are only incidental to them, the student. 
apt to lose sight of the exact nature 
argument, and to confound different p 
nomena, from want of the power of dis 
tangling the more essential from the 
essential subjects. It is clear that, ; 
