On the Obtainment of Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter''s Private Herbarium by the St. Petersburg Imperial Botanical Garden
The publication presents documents from the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The materials illuminate the process of inclusion by which the private collection of Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, the eminent taxonomist and director (1866-1875) of the St. Petersburg Imperial Botanical Gardens, came into the main corpus of the Garden’s herbarium. By order of the new director of the Gardens, Eduard von Regel, it fell upon chiefbotanist Karl I. Maximowicz to work with the collection. The general value of the Trautvetter's collection was that it contained a great number of type specimens.