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ROBOROVSKY and Kozloff, the two explorers who accompanied Prjevalsky in his last journeys, and for two years continued his work of exploration of Central Asia, are now back at St. Petersburg; and they have returned literally loaded with zoological, botanical, and geological collections, together with the results of meteorological observations and extensive surveys, as well as of numerous astronomical determinations. The chief interest of the collections will certainly be centred round the specimens of the wild horse (Equus Przewalskii) and wild camel which they have secured, as well as in the great numbers of new species of plants and insects which have been systematically collected by M. Kurilovitch, who stayed at well-chosen stations, while Roborovsky and Kozloff, mostly accompanied by one man only, made the most adventurous “excursions”—that is, journeys three and four hundred miles long—into the unknown highlands of the Nan-Shan.
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The Roborovsky Expedition. Nature 54, 282–283 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054282a0
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