TY - JOUR
TI - Botanika w Towarzystwie Przyjaciół Nauk w Wilnie
AU - Ričkienė, Aurika
TI - Botanika w Towarzystwie Przyjaciół Nauk w Wilnie
AB - The Society of Friends of Science in Vilnius was a Polish scientific organisation that operated in Vilnius from 1906 to 1939. Its activities were aimed at preserving Polish cultural heritage in Lithuania. Today, the Society is regarded as a major cultural institution that amassed an extensive library, manuscripts and museum collections. From the point of view of the history of science, it is important that the Society assumed responsibility for the promotion of scientific knowledge in the non-institutional period when there were no scientific institutions on the entire territory of present-day Lithuania, i.e. in the years 1906–1919. Later, from 1919 to 1939, it cooperated closely with the Stephen Bathory University. The Society’s areas of interest included the studies of regional flora and fauna. At that time, the nature of the territory of present-day Lithuania was still unexplored. Some members of the Society were involved in botanical research. They collected plant species from the former territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland) and published data on them in the Society’s publications. Some specimens from their collections have survived and are kept in the Herbarium of Vilnius University. Modern botanists consider the herbarium and the Society’s publications to be valuable sources dealing with the diversity and distribution of plant species in the relevant areas. The article aims at summarizing botanical work done by the members of the Society of Friends of Science in Vilnius and evaluating its importance for botany science in the region.
VL - 2025
IS - Tom 70, Numer 2
PY - 2025
SN - 0023-589X
C1 - 2657-4020
SP - 117
EP - 135
DO - 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.25.001.21657
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/artykul/botany-in-the-society-of-friends-of-science-in-vilnius
KW - botanika
KW - zbiory roślin
KW - zielnik
KW - Towarzystwo Przyjacioł Nauk
KW - Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego
KW - Wilno