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RIGA Society of Naturalists, March 5.—Dr. Petzholdt concluded a series of five lectures on Turkestan, having described the fauna and flora, ethnographical features, dwellings, manners and customs, state of agriculture, mining and manufacture, &c. He commends the mode of treating silkworms as superior to that in Europe, and thinks the system of irrigation more perfect than in any other land not having scientific appliances. The Russian portion of Tasckkent, it is stated, has now a good chemical laboratory.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 8, 356 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008356b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008356b0