Collection for Economic Botany is replenished since the end of 18^th century. One of the oldest samples are the Torryea seeds from Japan which were received in 1798 from Copenhagen. In 1855-1856 F.I . Ruprecht brought to the Collection the samples of kopal (the Agatis resin), leaves of yew and many others. Essential replenishment of the samples of resins, gums, waxes, lacquers, and tanning agents took place in 1913 when in St.Petersburg there was the All-Russian Homecraft Exhibition.  Numerous samples of seeds of the cultivated plants have been received from A.F. Batalin, who was the head of the Seed Testing Station since 1877.  Moreover, the corn seeds were also obtained from V.I. Lipsky, who visited in 1910 the International Agricultural Exhibition in Buenos-Aires,  and from A.T. Belchenko, the Russian consul in China in 1912. 

Many samples of drugs and pharmaceutical plants (including those used in traditional Chinese, Tibetan, and Korean medicines) have been collected by F.I. Ruprecht, V.I. Lipsky, N.A. Monteverde, A.F. Hammerman and others. Some of these materials were examined in the Laboratory for research of the plant stuffs and pharmaceutical plants, that worked in 1919-1934 by the Botanical Museum. Moreover, many ropes, brushes and baskets were passed to the Museum from the Technological Laboratory for the complex exploration of the plant stuffs that was in 1930ies in the Komarov Botanical Institute.