Karl Ivanovich Maximovich
Karl Ivanovich Maximovich (1827-91), Russian botanist, and member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1853-57 he traveled round the world, and in 1859-64, to the Far East and Japan. He spent two years in the Amur area, went down the Siberian rivers Shilka, Amur, Sungari, and Ussuri in a boat. He catalogued over a thousand species of plants in the Amur area where flora had never been studied before. His work Firstlings of the Amur Flora (1859) is an outstanding work in Russian flora studies.
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