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THE Kieff Society of Naturalists was opened in 1869, and soon had more than a hundred members, mostly belonging to the University. Like other Societies of Naturalists at the Russian Universities, its chief aim has been the exploration of Russian natural history in the neighbouring provinces, these explorations proving that though the region around the Dnieper was not quite unknown in its geological, botanical, and zoological aspects, still there were wide lacunæ to be filled up before arriving at a thorough knowledge of it. Prof. Feofilaktoff, who had already published a geological map of the province of Kieff, assisted by several young geologists, busily explored, therefore, the surrounding provinces, especially on the right bank of the Dnieper, and published in the Memoirs of the Kieff Society a series of valuable papers on the Cretaceous, Tertiary, and post-Tertiary of the region, as well as on brown coal on the Dnieper. The Phanerogamic flora of the Dnieper region being sufficiently well known from the former works of Professors Andrzeiovski, Trautvetter, Rogowicz, and several others, the chief attention of the Society has been devoted to the Cryptogamic flora; and numerous papers by MM. Borschoff, Plutenko, Waltz, Rishavi,. Timofeeff, Ryndovsky, Moshinsky, and Sovinsky, on the algae, mosses, lichens, and fu.igi of the Dnieper region, as well as-of Caucasus, appeared in the Memoirs. In zoology the chief researches were directed towards the exploration of the invertebrate fauna of the Black Sea, and whilst M. Bobretzky thoroughly studied the Annelids of the Black Sea, M. Krich-aguin carried out special studies of the Copepoia, and M. Paulson stulied the Crustacean of the Red Sea, in order to compare them with those of the great interior sea of Russia and Turkey. Several valuable papers were published at the same time on the anatomy and physiology of animals and plants, whilst the researches in chemistry and physics which were made at the Kieff University were mostly sent for publication to the Journal of the Russian Chemical and Physical Society at St. Petersburg.
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Science in Russia . Nature 28, 379–381 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028379a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028379a0