There a dictionary in seven languages, covering over 3,000 plants, but this book covers 476 cultivated plants and is aimed at botanists, biologists, agriculturalists etc., as an aid to translating works of international botanical literature.. Price is Rb1.37( about $ 1.50), only 9,200 copies published. Only an academy of science with Government help can afford such a scientific, nonprofitable enterprise.
BORODINA, N. A., NEKRASOV, N. S., NEKRASOVA, N. S., PETROVA, I. P., PLOTNIKOVA, L. S., SMIRNOVA, Trees and Shrubs of U. S. S. R. L. M. SAMARINA, artist; Size 6 × 8 in., 637 pp., 48 colour plates, black and white illustrations in text, Bibliography Index, price Rb2. Publisher:“ MISL”, Moscow. 1966.
Collective work of six Herbalists and one artist, all but one of them being women. It is one of many excellent works on economic botanics in U. S. S. R. A reference book for field workers, geographers, travellers and general readers. Besides perfect botanical descriptions, it contains valuable information for economical use of trees and shrubs. The original colour illustrations are most helpful.
BUNDIN, E. I., Prirodnie Sokrovishe( Nature’ s Treasures). Size 5 × 8 in. 64 pp., soft cover, 100,000 copies, price 7 kopecks( U. S. $ 0.08). Publisher: Medicinskaya Literature, Moscow. 1962.
This is one of many herbal publications used in Russia. High school students are encouraged to use their vacation and spare time studying this simple but scientific booklet. A good beginning, as the booklet contains enough to make those who are really interested want more. Protection of useful wild plants, practical information, collecting, botanical characteristics and medical properties are included. Conservation is considered as national wealth.
DARABAN, E. V., Gotovie Lekarstvennye Sredsva( Medical Preparations). Editor: PROF. P. V.
RODIONOVA. Size 5 × 8 in., 488 pp., Bibliography, Index( Russian only), 50,000 copies, price R1.35( U. S. $ 1.49). Publisher: Zdorovie, Kiev. 1966.
A handbook for doctors and druggists. One of many regional publications, in this case Ukrainian. Author has compiled 1,635( including 165 imported) prepared medications. Russian index of sickness and medical preparations. Herbals referred to are clinical and domestic. Total of fifty-five works from latest monographic and clinical literature, 1929 – 62.
FURSAEV, A. D., VRONINA, K, B., VOLINSKY, B. G., FREIDMAN, C. L., BENDER, K. L, KUZMINA, K. A.,
MARTINOFF, L. A., KUZNETZTOVA, C. G., Lekarstvennye Rastenia I IH Primenenie V Medicine( Medical Plants and their use as Medicine). Size 6 × 9 in., 204 pp., 25 illustrations( some in colour), Bibliography, Index( Russian and Latin), 60,000 copies, price 86 kopecks( U. S. $ 0.95). Publisher: Saratov University, Saratov. 1962.
This is one of the University’ s works for general readers, i. e., doctors, medical students, business organizations for buying, processing and cultivating; also any person interested in medical botanics. Dedicated as a regional survey mainly in the Saratov district, Volga River and Kasachstan, as prospective plant cultivating areas. Information is rich in the properties, cultivation and collection of plants. Bibliography is impressive, consisting of 365 herbal works, of which sixty-nine were published from 1872 – 1918. Remainder were published from 1920 – 62. It is noted with interest that many herbal plants have had close scientific and medical attention since the latter part of the nineteenth century, for example, Hydrastis canadensis since 1887, Lobelia inflata since 1872 and Ginseng-Panax since 1889, to name a few.
In Russia, many universities, medical associations, research institutes, health and agriculture ministries etc., realized, even before the Revolution, the importance of the unfathomable philosophy. All evidence points to follow-up after the Revolution on a bigger and more centralized scale.
From this work we can learn much about native North American plants and confirm what effort