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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3267694" data-attributes="member: 24811">It's the right Société, but the wrong journal--they edited several journals on different subjects. I think what we need is:French: Travaux de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de St-Pétersbourg. Section de Zoologie et de Physiologie. Russian, original: Труды Императорскаго С.-Петербургскаго общества естествоиспытателей. Отдѣленіе Зоологіи и Физіологіи. Russian, modern: Труды Императорского С.-Петербургского общества естествоиспытателей. Отделение Зоологии и Физиологии.(And not, obviously, "Section de Géologie et de Minéralogie." "Отдѣленіе Геологіи и Минералогіи". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)(Note--Russian spelling was quite extensively reformed in 1917-18; the most important changes included- the dropping of the hard sign "ъ" at the end of words, where it previously appeared in any word that otherwise would have ended in a consonant;- the global replacement of "і" (the "dotted i" or "decimal i") with "и" (i);- the global replacement of "ѣ" (yat) with е (ye);- a change in the genitive singular ending of adjectives, -аго becoming -ого, and -яго becoming -его.See for example [<a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~libslav/slavcatman/RussianSpellingCheatsheet.html" target="_blank">here</a>] for more, but the above covers all the most frequent cases, I think.Old documents may be listed under the original, or under the reformed spelling; search engines won't necessarily treat these as equivalent, thus you should search on both. Similarly, if you want to use Google translate on an old text, you should first make the spelling "reformed", otherwise it won't work in most cases. OCR programs often don't know about і and ѣ at all, so they react quite unpredictably to their presence in a text.)That said, I've already tried finding this one but, up to now, I've failed.Unfortunately, I fear that the "German digest" is a German abstract in the same Russian journal.</blockquote>

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