Table 1 Characteristics of Rostafiński’s respondents and the location of places they wrote about
From: Wild edible plants of Belarus: from Rostafiński’s questionnaire of 1883 to the present
Place for which information was given (the present Belarusian name given in brackets) | Region or county | Code | Surname, First name | Biographical information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Materials stored in the Museum of the Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University, ul. Kopernika 27, Kraków | ||||
Nieśwież, Słuck and Mińsk | Mińsk (Minsk) | CZA | Czarnocka, Helena | landowner, sent her letters from Secieszyn (Kleck train stop, Minsk gubernya) |
(Nyasvizh, Sluck, Minsk) | ||||
Jeziora (Azyory) | Grodno (Hrodna) | KOR | Korycińska, Aleksandra | no data; wrote her letter from Warsaw, passing on information from her friends |
Bobrzyńsk near Bobrujsk (now Babruysk) and surrounding counties | Mohylew (Mohilew) | LAS | Laskarys, Antonina z Zabiełłów | (1835 in Vilnius - ?), landowner [44] |
Naliboki | Mińsk (Minsk) | LES | Łęski, Michał | landowner from Chotów |
Puków | Ihumeń (Chervyen’) | NAR | Narkiewicz-Jodko, Tomasz | (ok. 1840 -?), landowner (Puków estate in Minsk gubernya) |
Pińsk and around (Pinsk) | Pińsk (Pinsk) | ONU | Onufrowicz, Adam | (1856–1914), studied at the Institute of Mining in St. Petersburg and the Technical Academy in Kraków, taught in polytechnics in Austro-Hungary and Russia. He was the main director of a factory in Kysztyma [45] |
Kuchcice and Chołuj | Ihumeń (Chervyen’) | OSS | Ossowski, Antoni | no data |
Rawonicze | Ihumeń (Chervyen’) | SLO | Słotwińska, J | no data |
whole counties | Pińsk, Mozyrz, Rzeczyca (Pinsk, Mazyr, Rechytsa) | SLO | Słotwińska, J | |
Weleśnica | Pińsk (Pinsk) | TWA | Twardowska, Maria | (1858–1907), botanist (florist), authored several publications on the flora of the Vilnius region and Polesia [46–48] |
n.d. | Pińsk (Pinsk) | NIE | Nielubowicz, W. | landowner |
Nowogródek (Navahrudak) | Grodno (Hrodna) | DYB | Dybowski, Władysław | (1838–1910), zoologist and botanist, master of mineralogy (1873), privatdozent of general paleontology in the university of Dorpat (now Tartu) (1876); when he responded to Rostafiński he was leasing an estate in Niańków near Nowogródek [49] |
Lipów | Rzeczyca (Rechytsa) | WOJ | Woyniłłowiczówna, Jadwiga | no data |
Manuscript and herbarium stored in the Herbarium of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, Warsaw | ||||
whole counties | Wołkowysk, Słonim, Prużany | FED | Federowski, Michał | (1853–1923), amateur ethnographer, the leading researcher of Belarusian verbal and musical folklore; worked on manorial estates, gathered many volumes of data on Belarusian folklore, e.g. [18]; lived in the presen territory of Belarus for most of the time between 1877and World War I; he wrote his answer to Rostafiński’s quest. from Studerowszczyzna |
(Vawkavysk, Slonim, Pruzhany) | ||||
Vileyka | FED2 | Federowski, Michał | ||