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looked through the rooms of the society. Don offered 

 to give me every possible facility in my pursuits, but 

 of course I said nothing to him about Pursh's l herba- 

 rium at Lambert's, of which he was formerly curator ; 

 for since he married Lambert's housekeeper, or cook, 

 I forget which, Lambert will not allow him to come 

 into the house. From here Hooker took me, stop- 

 ping by the way at Philip's, one of the most eminent 

 painters, whose gallery we saw, to the house of 

 Lambert 2 himself, the queerest old mortal I ever set 

 eyes on. But Carey's description of the man was so 

 accurate that I should have known him anywhere. I 

 was of course invited to breakfast with him any morn- 

 ing at nine ; he showed us his Cacti stuffed with plas- 

 ter of paris, among others a very curious one called 

 muff-cactus, which really looks just like a lady's muff 

 and is not much smaller. Lambert's specimens are 

 the only ones known, and he gave for them something 

 like a hundred guineas, the old goose ! A woman has 

 the care of his collections in place of Don. She stuffs 

 the cacti and seems quite as enthusiastic as old Lam- 

 bert himself. We went next to the Horticultural 

 Society's rooms in Regent Street in hopes to find Mr. 

 Bentham ; but instead we met Lindley, who received 

 us very politely ; he asked me to send him my address 

 the moment I was settled in lodgings. . . . Here I 

 parted from Hooker for the present, declining an invi- 

 tation to join him at the dinner of the Royal Society's 

 Club, for which I was afterwards almost sorry, as I 

 should have met there Hallam, the historian, and 



1 Frederic Pursh, 1774-1820. Emigrated to America, 1799. Trav- 

 eled and collected much ; settled later in Montreal, where he died. 



2 Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 1762-1842 ; author of the Genus Pinus 

 and the Genus Cinchona. Owned a very large herbarium comprising 

 plants of Pursh, who published under his liberal patronage. 



