The law, among its sources, also had the Lithuanian Statute, but a thorough comparison of both legislative monuments was not made and therefore the amount of borrowing was not indicated with accuracy. Filling this gap in science, i.e., presenting the results of a comparison of the Statute and the Code was the content of M.F. Vladimirsky-Budanov’s reading, and in turn contributed to clarifying questions about the Russian-national character of the Lithuanian Statute and the process of drawing up the Code 1). D. member I. I. Maly Kievsky made a report on the new work of Prof. E. E. Golubinsky: “Christianity in Russia before Vladimir St., No. 8 and 9 Nos. Journal of the Min. People's Education, 1876. Having praised the scientific merit of Mr. Golubinsky’s work, the reviewer focused on the author’s judgments: a) about the meaning of the name Vladimir (poiesiasis racesis);
b) about the legend regarding St. Andrew, as a later insertion;
c) Patr. speaks about the impossibility of attributing a raid on Constantinople to Askold and Dir. Photius in his conversations on the occasion of the Russian invasion.
At the meeting on December 5, 1876, the following issues were discussed:
1) The attitude of the chairman of the Highest Commission established to discuss measures for the protection of ancient monuments, dated November 16 of this year, No. 10, was read, with a request to send an authorized representative or a statement from the Nestor Society on the subject of the commission’s studies. After reading the said relation, the Chairman of the Society, V.S. Ikonnikov, reported the contents of the detailed answer to the proposed questions that he had already sent, due to the short deadline.
2) The attitude was read. D. Rector of Kazan University, dated November 1 of this year for L* 1438, on sending deputies to the preliminary committee of the 4th Archaeol. congress in Moscow, on December 20 of this year, and at the congress itself in Kazan, the following 1877. It was determined: to ask those members of the Society who will be sent from the University of St. to accept the title of deputies from the Nestor Society. Vladimir, or from other institutions that have funds for this trip.
3) The message of Dr. Member was read. N.I. Petrova about unknown do-
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village interludes to the tragic comedy of George Konissky, which are in the manuscript of the academician. Museum No. 131.
On Sunday, December 19, 1876, the following messages were made:
1) Ave. P. G. Lebedintsev read an analysis of evidence about “what area in ancient times was called Oleg’s grave*.”
2) D. member. A. A. Kotlyarevsky presented a memoir about the recently deceased scientists Behr and Eichwald and their works related to the territory of southern Rus'.
Academician K. M. Baer (born in 1792) completed a course at the University of Dorpat in the Faculty of Medicine and then was a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Koenigsberg, and then a full member of our Academy of Sciences. His work on fossil animals led him to study the natural history of primitive man. Interest in this type of research naturally led him to ethnographic and archaeological studies. Of course, his works in this area are far from having the same high importance as his works in the field of natural sciences, where (for example, in embryology) he is a brilliant creator, but nevertheless, they are very important both in terms of the accuracy of their research techniques, in terms of the many, so to speak, brilliant views that shimmer in them, and finally in the fact that most of these works are dedicated to Russia and belong to ours. domestic science. His whole work, devoted to general issues, in this direction is called: “Man in Natural History” (St. Petersburg, 1851), as an introduction to the book Spmashka. The classification of tribes, according to his thoughts, cannot be built solely on zoological characteristics; linguistic characteristics must also be taken into account, because then it is best possible to understand what degree of development each nation stands in comparison with another; but since the science of language is still in its youth, Baer, dividing the human race into groups, takes into account both the physical and spiritual and social development of peoples.... The book was not only the best compendium of ethnography in its time, according to it. or in many ways about Boyden and the latest works on this field - Peschel in Fried. Miller. Almost all failures are minor anthropological, ethnographic in 1873-77; G.