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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[left margin]] (27) [[/left margin]] the Russian doctor, Dr. [[blank space]] who informed me that he had found two kids of salamanders in [[Kamtchatkin?]] and one lizard. Upon producing the specimens I found that he had two [[advets?]] and a number of illy preserved larvae of the [[underlined]] Salamandrella [[irrismkyier?]], and that the lizard was only a dried up specimen of the same species. He promised me one of them. Grinberg and I took a walk out to the cemetery which we found in a very dilapidated and disgraceful condition. In contrast to this I may in justice mention that the streets, especially the bridge [[blue pencil]] 572 [[/blue pencil]]