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Tuesday 1 October 1839 Travel Journal

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fine morning but flags wet – F61 ¼° now at 8 55/.. am Reading Murrays’ encyclopaedia geography vol. 2 Siberia p. 1077. ask at the botanic garden for

Rosa berberifolia

Saxifraga geum

Tragopogon orientalis

Pedicularis Elata

P. proboscidea

Pinus cembra (from 4500 to 6500 Parisian ft. of elevation) what is the meaning and derivation of the word lychen what was Linnaeus’ favourite flower

Juniperus nana

Betula nana

Salix nana

Betula alba (common brich)

Pinus Siberica (p. 1078) ‘grows at the foot of the mountain with fir but more frequently with the Spruce [?] (Abies) and at 2000 to 3000 is very abundant’

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October Tuesday 1 ask difference between Pinus and fir and what is the name [?] to fir

+ Chamissos’ flora of stamtschatka, Aleutian island and Beharings’ straits

Pinus cembra, seeds of eaten by the Russians

Sorbus aucuparia (mountain ash?)

Alnus incana

Populus aspen?

what 2 other sorts (p. 1079) grow on the banks of the river Siberia?

+ quoted much in Hookers’ botanical miscellany

Cornus Suecica

Urtica dioica common nettle?

Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry?) bleau bery? cloud bery?

Sanguisorba Canadensis

Ferns (filices)

Geum (Fischer knows nothing about as a sacred architectural plant)

Oxycoccos (p. 1081)

Uva ursi

Fucus esculentus (sea kale of the Russians)

Pisum maritimum

Sphagnum

Pale and black lichens islands of St. George and St. Paul (p. 1081)

Mosses

[Carices]

Spiraea chamaedrifolia [chamaedryfolia]

what is the red moss in Sweden? and the yellow on the oaks at Stockholm?

October Tuesday 1

Linnaea borealis (Handbook p.111) favourite flower of Linnaeus

Lantana and Vitalba what?

Lantana, Wayfaring tree – a sorb?

Kapusta white cabbages of enormous size in the Crimea.

Trifolium did not Mrs. Lawton mention a new sort brought to England growing 5 or 6ft. high?

breakfast at about 9 ¼ in about ¾ hour – before and after writing of foregoing notes of inquiries to be made and read Murrays’ encyclopaedia of geography etc. till had Dr. Lefevre for near ½ hour till 11 ¼ - out at 11 ¾ to the Library (Imperial) – at 12 Mr. de Moralt went round the 21 salles with us in ¼ hour – the new wing = 6 salles finished I think he said in 1832 and adjoined to the old part part part finished in 1812 –

a pupitre of 4 shelves on a moveable axes – no description or model of it to be had – the shelves seemed about 20in. wide and 4ft. long? this sort of thing might be contrived at home –

at 12 20/.. sat down to look at mss. – an artist here copying Alexander by Dove who did this and all the [generals] etc. at the Hermitage at 1,000 rubels each – I left A- to the mss., and looked over the folio ‘Voyage de Messrs. Humbotdt und Bonpland. Partie Botanique ........ in ordinem digessit Carol. Sigismund. Kunth. Fascicul 10. Figures colorieés – à Paris. Libraire de Gide fils. Rue St. Marc – Feydeau, no. 20. Planches de l’imprimerie de Langlois.

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October Tuesday 1 Layards the name of the author of the Handbook signing himself E.L. Mr. Moralt said he was introduced to him by Brieffy the bookseller – at the library till 1 ¾ having latterly had Mr. Atkinson the English librarian for the modern works – very civil – the library not rich in English works – neither Captain Cochranes, nor Bremners’ –

at the Botanic garden at 2 5/.. – Mr. Fischer, on the lookout, came to us immediately and took us to the serres a verst long! the Berlin garden the richest in Europe – Kew not much now – the Edinburgh botanic garden the best in Great Britain – became a royal garden and became tho’ Dr. Graham less scientifie (savant) than Sir William Hooker the Edinburgh Gardener Mr. MacNab is one one of the best in England in Great Britain – the Glasgow garden is by subscription and the college had 10 or 12 shares (actions) but tho’ this give some weight at Hooker (the college professor) yet he has not weight enough – spoke of Knights? exotic garden at Chelsea -

for £2,000 a year more – F- would make this the finest richest botanic garden in Europe – he would have jardins [filials]

Crimea

Rio Janeiro

at the mouth of the Amazon Maranham [Maranhão]

Demerara

Cape of good hope

New Holland

California

Preserve gardens at the 7 places named – I had said I thought the emperor ought to have a [?] garden in the Crimea

Mr. A- said 7 librarians and 4 under ditto at the Imperial library

here 120,000 rubels per annum 400,000 from Jardin des plantes – the fault of the English gardens (Liverpool the best (ranks with Edinburgh and Glasgow) is that the old plants are thrown away for new ones – novelty is too much sought after – Loddiges establishment costs £10,000 a year –

Lambert on the genus Pinus vice-president of the Linnean society – 8vo. edition 4 vols.

F 20 years at Moscow with............ the hothouses separate – lost his health in going from one to the other by the sudden changes of temperature .:. here had all the houses under one roof – the flood in 1824 did great damage – the water 2 or 3ft. high in the serres – the emperor once thought of removing them to the Taurida [Tauride] palace garden – but now the plants so well rooted etc. it would not be advisable –

1839

Marshal Bieberstens’ [Marschall von Bieberstein] flora Tauro-Caucasia. 3vols. 8vo.

à son Altesse

Mr. le prince Volkonski ministre de la maison de l’Empereur

he would [was] the man to apply to for leave to see the the favourite flower of Linnaeus Andromeda polifolia F- thinks Ficus sarmentosa or stipulate the beautiful little creeper in my favourite serre when concrétionnés lime stones are piled up for the rock plants – very pretty and natural looking

the son or nephew of the French ambassador was there with F-‘s belle soeur and F- introduced us to her en passant – saw her afterwards – very civil – came away at 4 ¾ - home direct at 5 ½ - dressed – dinner over at 6 50/..

Krusenstern 51/426 ‘La méthode d’Enseignement est celle de Lancastre dans toutes les écoles paroissiales des villes, bourgs ou villages’

Each school has ‘cartes géographiques etc. (books maps and other objects d’instruction’ approved par le ministère 52/426. at the District schools (p. 55)

Les Gymnases p. 57 more particularly destined for the education of gentilshommes – Latin Grammar and French taught – Greek (for want of masters) only taught in the university-town gymnases

p. 64 young peasants free or not, inadmissible now to the gymnases – Education should be suited to the position of the person – those overeducated found the state to which they must return insupportable – ‘et l’expérience a prouvé que ces hommes out tombaient dans une noire mélancolie, ou se livraient à des, excès qui finissaient ordinairement par les perdu’

p. 67 according to the new règlement of 1835. German French English and Italian taught – and vid. p. 66 Arabian, Turkish, Persian, Mongole and Tartarian taught

p. 70 every professor after 25 years of service obtains the title of Emeritus and his chair is considered vacant – but may be re-elected for so long as he is able –

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October Tuesday the professors who have obtainted the title d’émerite after 25 years service have a pension égale a leur traitement annuel – ½ for 10 years – ¾ for 15 years – vide

p. 74. vide salaries of professors – at Petersburg and Moscow 5,000 R-

p.79 at the university de Casan particular attention paid to the Arabic, Persian, Tartar, and Mongol to prepare young men for being employed as dragomans and translateurs.

Mongole grammar par Schmidt. p. 81.

5 young Buriates one of them a Lama, studying at Casan - .:. hope to rapprocher ‘des trésors de la littérature tibétaine, restes inaccessibles jusqu’ à présent aux recherché des Européens, car c’est entre les mains des Lamas Buriates que demeurent ignorés de précieux monumens de cette littérature’ p. 82/486

Dorpat p. 87 et seq. ‘les travaux scientifiques de l’université’ sont ‘trés étendus’ e.g. the Atlas Zoologique de professor Eschholtz who accompanied Captain Kotzebue in his voyage round the world. and the expeditions of professor Engelhardt in the government of Olonetz [Olonec] and the east parts of the Oural [Ural] chain – his mineralogical works known to all the mineralogists of Europe –

Struve for his astronomical discoveries

Ratke histoire naturelle in his travels on the north of the Black sea

Göbels’ scientific travels in the Steppes of this part of the empire

Ledebur’s Flore des monts Altay [Altaj]

Parrot’s voyage à l’Ararat.

October Tuesday 1 ‘De plus il y paraît chaque mois une publication sous le titre de Chronique de Dorpat.

Odessa p. 97 et seq. – p. 100 ecole at O- for the oriental languages –

Gymnases at Tiflis [Tbilisi] etc. etc. Kouba, Bakou, Derbent, at Erivan. o. 105

p. 109 et seq. on private schools and private tuition no Russian allowed to leave Russia to study abroad before aet. 18

académie Impériale des sciences p. 123 – among its members (p. 124) were Euler, Gmelin, Pallas, etc.

p. 124 vi. Scherers’ Aperçu historique des travaux de l’académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg depuis 1726 jusqu’ à 1826’.

p. 125 the académie has 206,000 R. (Ukase du 30 Janvier 1830) per annum

p. 126 ---------- 239,400 R. per annum

p. 128 the 6th series of memoires (faisant suite à 73 vols. published before) was commenced in 1826 (since 1826?)

For an account of these memoires vid. Receuil des Actes de l’ académie vid. particularly

p. 128 Mr. Krug sur l’origine des Slaves

Mr. Fraehr’s important discoveries dans les auteurs arabes vid. an earlier part of Krusenstern the old Russian letters resemble those on the rocks in the desert…….

p. 130 Flore Russe published par les soins de l’ académie and ‘Dessins appartenant à la zoographie de la Russia d’Asie.’

p. 131 Description statistique de gouvernement de Vologda par Mr. Broussiloff.

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October Tuesday 1

p. 133 L’expédition archéographie de Mr. Stroïeff Stroïeff

p. 134 this work will = 10vols. folio (from 1340 to 1700)

this work completed Stroïeff/2 and the academy/1 will s’occuper d’un travail plus vaste – ‘la publication d’un receuil systématique de totues les sources de l’histoire de la Russie’

p. 137 the academician Dr. Mertens in 1826 from Russia in North west America and Asia brought 2500 plants etc. and 100 dessins –

p. 338 magnetic observation made at Pekin by the astronomer Fuss and Dr. Bunge at the same time explored le règne végétale de la Chine -

p. 339 Ermanns’ voyahe sur le Lena and Bunge explored also les mountains Altai [Altaj]

p. 140 on the level of the Caspian – Parrot now thinks no difference between level of Caspian and Black sea?

p. 142. Atmospheric pressure varies – doubts as to infallibility of the barometer as a measure of heights

p. 143 Mr. Sjogren agrees with Klaproth that the Ossètes are Indo-Germanic –

p. 145. Catalogue = 100+ of ouvrages Arabian Persian and Turc that are to be sought for –

p. 146 a limited no. of persons admitted to some of the Séances of the academy

p. 148 17 April anniversarie de la [?] de [?] le Cesarewitch is the day the academy prizes are given

p. 150. 151. Le musée asiatique ‘le cabinet est unique dans son genre en Europe: Mr. Fraehn en fait un catalogue raisonné.

October Tuesday 1 vid. at the observatory Dopat (p. 155) la fameuse lunette de Frauenhofer, un des instrumens le plus parfaits qui existent. vid. [Observation] central (1st stone laid in the spring of 1834) sur la montagne de Pulkowo no buildings houses allowed to be erected with a verst of it –

p. 159 the academy has published ‘Notices de l’academie 1815-1823 4vols. – Publication periodique 1829-1832. 4vols. memoires 1834-1836. 3 vols.

sat reading so far of Krusenstern to p. 160 and making the above notes till now 12 at night

p. 225 Le genre du vie des élèves vid. 8 hours for sleep

p. 130 et seq. vid. ecole des mines – fine day

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