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HERE are three, separate contributions to the flora of Eastern Central Asia, by the well-known authority on the botany of Central and Eastern Asia. It is now nearly forty years since Mr. Maximowicz, through the force of circumstances, had an opportunity of exploring Mandshuria, the results of which he published under the title of “Primitiæ Floræ Amurensis.” He was attached as botanist to the Russian frigate Diana on a scientific voyage round the world, but in consequence of war breaking out with England and France he was landed in Mandshuria, where he spent three or four years, returning through Siberia and European Russia to St. Petersburg. Subsequently he has visited Japan two or three times, and made large collections of dried plants, and his life, apart from official duties, has been devoted to working out the botany of temperate Asia.
I. Historia Naturalis Itinerum N. M. Przewalskii per Asiam Centralem.
Augustissimus auspiciis sumptibusque ab Societate Imperiali Geographica Rossica edita. Pars Botanica elaboravit C. J. Maximowicz. Volumen I. “Flora Tangutica.” Fasciculus 1, Thalamifloræ et Discifloræ. 4to, pp. 110, cum tabulis 31. II. Volumen II. “Enumeratio Plantarum hucusque in Mongolia nec non in adjacente parte Turkestaniæ Sinensis lectarum.” Fasciculus 1, Thalamifloræ et Discifloræ. Pp. 138, cum tabulis 14.
III. Plantæ Chinenses Potaninianæ nec non Piasezkianæ (Acta Horti Petropolitani, Vol. XI, pp. 1–112).
Elaboravit C. J. Maximowicz. (St. Petersburg Botanic Garden, 1889.)
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HEMSLEY, W. Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 51 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042051a0
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