New information about the election of S.P.Botkin as a member of foreign scientific societies (on the occasion of the 190th anniversary of his birth)

Our predecessors considered S.P.Botkin an honorary member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, as well as 9 foreign scientific societies, information about which was practically absent. Because of «decoding» one of his letters and work in the archives of the Royal Society of Physicians of Vienna, we first established that Botkin was a corresponding member (1866) and an honorary member (1879) of this society. Literary sources about the activities of the Imperial (since 1847), later Austrian (since 1947) Academy of Sciences (Vienna), as well as interaction with its employees (2022) testify to the erroneous attribution of Sergei Petrovich to the number of honorary members of this academy, which found reflection in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of F.A.Brockhaus and I.A.Efron.