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Dendrological collection
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Dendrological collection contains ca. 12 000 wood samples of trees, shrubs,
and lianas belonging to ca. 5000 plant genera from diverse regions of the
Earth with emphasis on Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union. The
Dendrological gallery, the exposition of the stems of woody ferns,
gymnosperms and dicots, has been made on the basis of this collection.
Moreover, the samples of the Dendrological collection are used in other
epositions of the Botanical Museum.
Dendrological collection is registred as LEw in the Index Xylariorum (Index Xylariorum. Institutional Wood Collections of the World, 3 // IAWA Bulletin 9[2]. 1988. p.203-252.). Its samples are placed into taxonomic (familiar and generic) order according to Engler’s system (Dalla Torre & Harms, 1900-1907), the species within a genus are ordered alphabetically. The samples obtained from some collectors (V.F. Karvinsky’s samples from Mexico, Sh. Carlquist’s one from California, I.V. Grushvitzky & N. Skvortsova’s from Vietnam and others) are kept separatelly. All the samples have been catalogued, a database for the Dendrological collection is now under construction. Curator – Dr. Alexei Oskolski History. Dendrological collection was initailly founded in early 18th century in the time of the Pharmaceutical Garden, however it replenished regularly since ca. 1830. Then the wood samples collected by P.S. Kostromitinoff, the head of the colony Ross in California, have been obtained from K.T. Khlebnikov, the head of Novo-Archangelsk office of the Russian-American Company on Alaska. At the same time L. Riedel brought the large wood samples from tropical forests of Brazil, V.F. Karvinsky replainish it by the collection from his first expedition to Mexico (1826-1832), I.O. Schowitz and A.I. Schrenk passed the wood samples from northern Persia, southern Transcaucaisa, western Siberia and European Russia. After that the most essential replenishments of Dendrological collection was made by F.I. Ruprecht, who brought many wood samples from the Great Britain (1869), and also by K.I. Maximowicz from Primorye and Japan (1863), N.A. Busch from Caucasus (1908), V.A. Dubiansky from California (1912), V.N. Lubimenko from Java (1914). Interesting samples were obtained from F. Mueller, the director of the Botanical Garden in Melbourn. Due to activity of the governmental Department of Migration in the beginning of 20th century the Dendrological collection was replenished by numerous wood samples from Caucasus, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Far East and Kamchatka. During the Soviet period materials for the Dendrological collection have been received from such Russian botanists as V.L. Komarov, A.A. Fedorov, An.A. Fedorov, P.A. Baranov, A.A. Nikitin, O.V. Zalensky, A.L. Takhtajan, M.S. Yakovlev etc., and also from some foreign scientists (Sh. Carlquist, H. Gottwald, R. Eyde etc.). Research. The materials of the Dendrological collection are used for the studies on systematic, evolutionary and ecological wood anatomy of different plant taxa, as well as the standart examples for the wood identification for archaeology, criminalistics, and restoration of the art works. |
The collcection cupboard with the wood samples
The stem crossection of Dicksonia, the woody fern
Herbarium of the pine with its wood samples made in the form of book. Germany, early 19th century.
Wood structure of Heteromorpha arborescens, the shrub from South Africa. Photo made by the scanning electron microscope. |
