Zielniki flory syberyjskiej Ferdynanda Karo w zbiorach europejskich ogrodów botanicznych

• Authors: Iwona Arabas

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Ferdynand Karo’s herbaria of Siberian flora in the collections of European botanic gardens

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Research of Siberia — consisting primarily in the exploration and inventory taking of its natural resources — financed and supervised by the tsars began as early as in the 18th century. In the late 19th century the possibilities of exploring its more distant areas were enhanced by the Trans-Siberian Railway. Siberian nature fascinated also Polish exiles and military men, who made a great contribution to the study of Siberian fauna, flora and geology. One of these explores was Ferdynand Karo, a pharmacist. He ran a military pharmacy in Irkutsk (1897), then worked as an apothecary in Nerchinsk (1887–1893), Blagoveshchensk on the Amur (1897–1900), Zeiska Pristan (1900–1902) and again in Blagoveshchensk on the Amur (1902–1908 and 1910–1913). Throughout his stay in Siberia he collected specimens of the local flora and sent his notes to various academic institutions. We owe our knowledge of his collections mainly to J. Freyn, who popularised them among European botanists, publishing lists of flora species from the various regions of Siberia in the well-known Vienna journal Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. The 80,000 specimens collected by Ferdynand Karo include those of 28 new species previously unknown to science. 8 of them were named after him Karo. The herbaria made at the time are still of great value to European science and constitute an important part of collections of various scientific institutions in Warsaw, Kraków, Irkutsk, Chita, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Paris, Göttingen, Berlin, Jena, Munich, Vienna, Kew near London, Leiden, Basel, Zurich, Lausanne, Florence, Genoa and Saint Louis. Translated by Anna Kijak

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Wrocławskie Studia Wschodnie
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 16
• Pages: 233 - 241

Contributors

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Iwona Arabas

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