Complete Collection of Scientific Travels Through Russia, Published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, on the Proposal of Its President. Volume 1. Description of Kamchatka

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"Complete Collection of scientists travel to Russia" was published by the President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, SS Uvarov for the purpose of compiling and disseminating basic information about Russia resulting from the expeditions of the Academy of Sciences, taken in different years. The work includes the following studies: "Description of the Land of Kamchatka" Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, a botanist and ethnographer, party second Kamchatka expedition; "Notes of Travel academician Lepekhina" (Ivan Lepekhin, scientist and lexicographer, took part in many scientific expeditions in the Urals, the Volga region, Western Siberia and the Russian North); "Travel Notes of Academician Falk" (Johann Peter Falk, a physician and naturalist, was the chief of the Orenburg expedition, swept Siberia and the Altai). Each study anticipates the biography of the author.