MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY BOTANICAL GARDENS

摘要

In 1805 the "Moscow Pharmaceutical Garden" was acquired by the university. The botanist Georg Franz Hoffmann who headed the Chair of Botany was appointed its first director. At that time abundant plant collections of the Gardens were a research ground to carry out complex botanical, including biological, studies. There worked such botanists and biologists of different epochs as Mikhail Maximovich, a natural scientist, first rector of the Kiev University, Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg AS (from 1871); Alexander Fischer von Waldheim, a naturalist, Professor of the Moscow University and President of the Moscow Society of Natural Scientists; Nikolai Kaufman, one of the first botanical geographers in the Russian Empire; Ivan Chistyakov~*, Full Professor of the Moscow University at the Chair of Plant Anatomy and Physiology; Ivan Gorozhankin, founder of the scientific school of plant morphology and comparative embryology in national botany; Mikhail Golenkin, a botanist, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, Professor of the Moscow University at the Chair of Plant Taxonomy and Morphology; Mikhail Navashin, a renowned cytologist and cytogeneticist; Carl von Meyer, a botanist-systemizer, Corresponding Member of the USSR AS (from 1932); Boris Kozo-Polyansky, a botanist, author of the original phylogenetic system of higher plants; Yevgeny Wulf, a botanist, florist and bio- geographer, specialist in historical geography; Vasily Alyokhin,a Soviet geobotanist, founder of the Moscow scientific school, Professor of the Moscow State University (from 1918),author of the textbook Plant Geography, and many other experts who left an appreciable trace in national science.