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whichIhadwiththeformerRectors:ProfessorsHenrykSamsonowicz,
WłodzimierzSiwiński,PiotrWęgleńskiandinparticularwithAndrzej
KajetanWróblewskiwhoalsoprovidedmewithhisunpublishedpapers.
Tisbookcouldnothavebeenwrittenwithouttheconstant
andzealouscooperationofmywifeAnnaandofHubertKowalski.My
wifehelpedmeinmyresearchonperiodsourcetexts,copiedthemost
importantexcerptswefound,andservedasthefirsteditoroftheemerg-
ingtext.Hubert’sdiligentsearchthroughvariousarchivesandmuseum
collectionsunearthedinvaluablematerialsandphotographs,oftenones
whichhaveneverbeforebeenpublished.MygratitudealsotoKlaudyna
Michałowicz,Anne-MarieDuk-Fabianowska,AleksandraKoutny-
JonesandBeataJankowiak-Konikforalltheirelortstomakethisbook
availabletoEnglish-speakingreaders.
Notes
1SeeAnderson2004.
2Summerville2006;Jarret2014.
3TeActofDepositionreleasedbyParliamenton25January1831ishoused
inthePolishLibraryinParis.
4Leslie1969.
5TetermKtradition”isbeingusedinthisbookinaverywidesense.Tosome
degreeIfollowheretheapproachtothistopictobefoundinHobsbawm1992.
6SeePSB,vol.15(1970),pp.632–633;vol.10(1962–1964),pp.296–297.
TemanuscriptofJarocki’sKronika[Chronicle]isnowintheArchiveat
KrzyweKołoStreetinWarsaw,whereaswrittenmaterialsfromthelegacy
ofKręcki,whowaspreparingtowriteamonographontheSchoolofFineArts,
canbefoundintheLibraryoftheInstituteofArtofthePolishAcademy
ofSciencesandinthePolishArmyMuseuminWarsaw.Teoeuvreofboth
scholarshashithertobeenusedtoaverysmalldegree.NeitherJarocki’sKronika,
normaterialscollectedbyKręckiarementionedinthequotedPSBentries.
AmongJarocki’sscholarlyachievementsinthefieldofzoology,thetreatise
Opająkachprzędzących[Onspinningspiders]isworthmentioning;hewas
moreoveronfriendlytermswiththeChopinfamilyandaccompaniedyoung
FryderykinhistriptoBerlininSeptember1829.
7Niemcewicz1957,vol.2,p.311.
8Toseinscriptionswerere-translatedintoEnglishthroughPolishand
theresultingversionswereconsultedwithMr.Senduła(K.M.)
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