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VII. Some Account of je Herbarium of Professor Pallas. By 
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F.R.S. and A.S., V.P.L.S. 
Read December 20, 1808, and "March 21, 1809. 
Tur Herbarium of the celebrated Professor Pallas has latel y 
come into my hands, . It was brought to this country from Russia 
by the well. known travellers Dr. Clarke and Mr. Cri pps, who pur- 
. chased it of him while on:a visit at his house in the Crimea, and 
afterwards, in May 1808, sold it by auction in London. 
It contains some thousands of specimens in very fine preserva- 
tion, especially those which belong to the Russian empire, col- 
lected in his various journeys undertaken to investigate and 
publish the Natural History of that extensive country. The 
plants are the best prepared of any I have ever seen, except a 
collection a few years ago from Cayenne, taken from the F rench, 
who excel so much in their manner of preparing their collections 
of Natural History in the countries they explore; and who have 
of late y ears brought home so many valuable ones from New-Hol- 
land, and from countries within the tropics. 
It also contains many hundreds of specimens given to Pallas 
by various celebrated botanists. George Forster, who accom- 
panied his father with Captain Cook in his second voyage round 
the world, and who afterwards was engaged by the Empress 
Catherine to join in a similar expedition, which never took effect, 
sent 
