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A.F. Adamowicz, a veterinarian, botanist and science historian, became in 1866 a member of the SBF. This article presents the circumstances of his first and second travel to France. Written for the SBF Adamowicz’s Histoire de la Botanique en Lituanie was annotated and translated into Polish. The relationship of Adamowicz with the SBF and France has been analysed in regard to the context of liquidation of scientific institutions by the Russians in the occupied city of Vilnius.