'_ who has travelled and collected largely in Mandchuria and J: 
' S have nothing to say botanically ; and the same of the conti! 
_ Tailway j journey of one thousand ‘three hundred miles from 4 
m; 
` narrowness of the valleys: From Bergen, I went up the Hardan- 
- ing into a beautiful lake; and a glacier in the vicinity, the first 
choice herbarium at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 
still young he has a high reputation as a botanist, and is an ee 
English with facility. My special object was to examine the 
oe northwest America described by Ruprecht. These are ‘in| 
oo ‘Acadlemy’s herbarium, in the condition in which they were 
coe him, — much arrangement. 
ais 
“gust that the three emperors were expected in two days, | 
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The peaks are sharper than anywhere else and covered with snow. 
The view of the Romsdal mountains from Molde is the finest distant 
view I saw in Norway, where distant views are scarce owing to the 
ger Fiord and into the Sér Fiord to Odde. The fiords are the finest 
things in Norway, mountains two or three thousand feet high,- 
sometimes more, coming straight down into the greenest of water. 
You sail on for hundreds of miles, the scenery varying from grand | 
to grander. The Sor Fiord is particularly fine, the water is narrow — 
and the mountains black and steep, with the Folgefond glacier on 
one side hanging over the cliffs, and coming down the ravines. — 
From Odde I visited the Skaggindal foss, a pretty waterfall pours 
I had ever seen close at hand. . Notwithstanding all I had read - 
and ‘heard I was astonished at the color of the ice which, without 
exaggeration, was as deep as sulphate of copper. It advanced 
fifty feet last year. - 
At St. Petersburg the attractions for the botanist centre in the , 
Botanical Garden, with its twenty-five well filled ‘conservatories, 
collection of hardy plants and trees of remarkable extent, cons 
ering the climate, and a large herbarium and library attached —all 
under the immediate care of Dr. Regel, formerly of Zurich, a sti- 
entific botanist as well as gardener. Dr. Trautvetter, however? 
the/ official head of the: establishment. There is a smaller b 
since Ruprecht’s death has been in charge of Dr. Maximo 
and is now engaged upon a flora of the latter country. 
rable man. To add to my satisfaction and comfort, he sp 
w, with its domes and shrines and dingy “ne 
to Berlin, without sleeping cars. On arising I found to | 
-room to > be Dii s hotel. At length, however, I sane 
