Abstract
THE Leningrad Botanical Institute, the largest in the U. S. S. R., has not suspended its work under conditions of war and siege. The Institute has a rich botanical collection of some seven million specimens of plants. Its library contains 135,000 volumes on botany, while more than 20,000 specimens of plants from all parts of the world are to be found in its gardens laid out about 230 years ago on the order of Peter the Great. The hothouses alone of the Institute occupy an area of 35,000 square metres.
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