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brilliant flowers and ground-fruits of various kinds, swarming 
with birds, and alive with mosquitoes. During this voyage 
we had an excellent opportunity of making the acquaintance 
of many native tribes, the Ost'-yak, the Tun-goosk', the Dol'- 
gahn, the Yu-rak', and the Sam'-o-yade. 
On the 23rd of July I left Gol-cheek'-a in the last Russian 
steamer up the river, and reached Yen-e-saisk' on the 14th 
of August. After a few days^ delay I drove across country to 
Tomsk, stopping a day or two in Kras-no-yarsk'. In Tomsk 
I found an excellent iron steamer, in which I sailed down 
the river Tom into the Ob, down which we steamed to its 
junction with the Eer'-tish, up which we proceeded until we 
entered the Tob-oT, and afterwards steamed up the Too'-ra 
to Tyu-main', a distance by water of 2200 miles. From Tyu- 
main'I drove through Ekatereenburg across the Urals to Perm, 
where I took my passage on board the ^ Sam-o-lot','’ or self¬ 
flyer, down the Kama, and up the Volga, to Nishni-Novgorod. 
In St. Petersburg I spent a week, and reached London on 
the 9th of October, bringing with me more than a thousand 
skins of birds, about flve hundred eggs, and a cart-load of 
native costumes and other ethnological curiosities. I every¬ 
where met with the greatest kindness and courtesy, and am 
very much indebted to friends, too numerous to mention, 
who assisted mein many ways during my adventurous journey 
of more than fifteen thousand miles. 
The study of zoology is, I am afraid, more and more neg¬ 
lected in Russia j but there is still some amount of field-work 
going on. Taczanowski, the Curator of the Museum at 
Warsaw, still receives from Dr. Dybowsky ornithological 
collections from Lake Baical. Professor Strebelow, at Kras- 
no-yarsk', is an accomplished entomologist, and would, I am 
sure, be glad to assist any European collector. Professor 
Szoffzoff, at Omsk, is an excellent entomologist, and has also 
a good knowledge of birds. The Kazan collection is in fair 
order; but few of the birds in the Museum possess localities 
or dates, and none of the Professors make ornithology a special 
branch of study. The Eversmann collection has been sold 
to the Museum at St. Petersburg for an old song. Sabanaeff, 
