The article presents Joseph Decaisneʼs Polish correspondents in light of documents preserved at French Institute and National Natural History Museum in Paris. Decaisneʼs correspondence with Willibald Besser and Antoni Andrzejowski, of the Lyceum of Krzemieniec, is discussed. It is important for the history of the Krzemieniec Botanical Garden, and for learning about Ukrainian flora. The letters of Ignacy Rafał Czerwiakowski, Edward Janczewski and Antoni Rehmann contain much information about the work of the Krakowian botanists together with the Jardin des Plantes, but also valuable information about the history of Darwinism in Poland, and the acclimatisation of fruit trees in Poland. Edward Strasburgerʼs correspondence is an interesting contribution in learning about the early years of emigration of the academic. There are also a few letters sent to Decasisne by senders who were not naturalists, but contacting him with various requests.
Military archives of the French Army at Vincennes retain many documents of the Napoleonic war. Some of these documents relate to Poland and Lithuania. The military intelligence reports have sometimes been subject to the forests. The article presents the analysis of three of these documents. The two reports on the forests of Lithuania and a forestry part of a report of General Sokolnicki. These documents hitherto unknown, are an interesting testimony on the forests in Poland and the French know about them in the early nineteenth century. It is also an interesting contribution to understanding the role of forests in the military policy of the time.
Antoni Wróblewski, co-founder of the Arboretum in Beńkowa Wiśnia (Fredrów) near Lwów, and later founder of the Arboretum in Kórnik, in his early years spent time in Paris, and specifically, at the National Museum of Natural History. This article adds to the many known documents regarding Wróblewskiʼs study and work in Paris. Two of his letters were found in the Museumʼs archives, addressed to the mycologist, Louis Mangin, in whose laboratory he worked for half a year. The letters regard the publication in the Museumʼs periodical a list of fungi collected by Wróblewski in the Jardin des Plantes.