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1867-1868. Petersburg--Baer Prize--Return home--Friendship with Cienkovsky--Odessa--Naturalists' Congress at Petersburg--Departure from Odessa--Zoological Lecturer's Chair at Petersburg--Messina--Enforced rest--Reggio-- Naples--Controversy with Kovalevsky--Visit to the B. family--Mlle. Fédorovitch--Educational questions-- Difficulties of life in Petersburg 58