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WE have before us the yearly Report of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science, drawn up by its new secretary, Prof. A. A. Strauch; it is full of interest, as it gives a careful analysis of the scientific work done by the Academy. After having mentioned the losses sustained by the Academy, and the new members elected, Prof. Strauch passes in review the scientific institutions connected with the Academy. The Pulkova Observatory is now under the directorship of the Moscow Professor, Th. Bredichin, well-known for his researches into the structure of comets; the Physical Observatory, under H. Wilde, has added to its former weather warnings a system of warnings of snowstorms, which are sent to the Russian railways. A new laboratory for researches into the physiology and anatomy of plants has been opened; while the remarkable ethnographical and anthropological collections of the Academy (which contain the collections brought in by Krusenstern, Lütke, Junker, Miklukho-Maclay, Polyakoff, and so on), have been lodged in a separate museum, now opened to the public. Rich collections, especially zoological, from Caucasia, Turkestan, and Mongolia, were received during the past year. Among the recent acquisitions of the library, Mr. Friedland's collection of Hebrew printed works, old and new, some of which are very rare, is especially valuable.
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K., P. The St. Petersburg Academy of Science. Nature 43, 404 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043404a0
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