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" Some Account of the Galls found on a species of Oak from the 

 shores of the Dead Sea," and a " Note on the Mustard-plant of the 

 Scriptures," in vol. xvii. 



Mr. Lambert's health had for some years been failing, and he had 

 ceased to visit his country-seat at Boyton, but preferred, when out 

 of town, taking up his residence of Kew, where his proximity to the 

 Royal Gardens, and to his friends in town, afforded him more co- 

 pious sources of enjoyment than he could have found elsewhere. He 

 died at Kew, on the 10th of January in the present year, and his 

 remains were removed to Boyton for interment. He married Catha- 

 rine, daughter of Richard Bowater, Esq., of Allesley in the county 

 of Warwick, but was left a widower, without any family, some years 

 before his death. 



Archibald Menzies, Esq., who, on the death of Mr. Lambert, be- 

 came father of the Society, was born at Weem, in the county of 

 Perth, on the loth of March, 1754. He was early attached to the 

 Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, of which his brother William after- 

 wards had charge ; and was enabled, through the kind assistance of 

 Dr. John Hope, then Botanical Professor in that University, who was 

 attracted by his love for natural history and especially botany, to 

 pass through the academical studies necessary for his education as a 

 surgeon. In the summer of 1778 he made a tour, under the auspices 

 of Dr. Hope, through the Highlands and Hebrides, with the view of 

 collecting their rarer plants, to which attention was then strongly 

 directed by the recent publication of Lightfoot's 'Flora Scotica.' He 

 afterwards became assistant to a surgeon at Caernarvon ; but soon 

 quitting for a time the practice of his profession on shore, he entered 

 the navy, and became assistant- surgeon on board the Nonsuch, 

 Captain Truscott, in which vessel he was present at the famous vic- 

 tory obtained by Rodney over the Comte de Grasse on the 1 2th of 

 April, 1782. After the peace of that year he remained for some time 

 on the Halifax station. In 1 786 he embarked as surgeon on board the 

 Prince of Wales, a vessel fitted out by the enterprising firm of John 

 and Cadman Etches and Co., and was placed under the command 

 of Lieut, (afterwards Captain) Colnett, of the Royal Navy, for a voy- 

 age of commercial discovery to the north-west coast of America. In 

 this voyage he visited Staten Land, where he remained for some time, 

 the Sandwich Islands and China, as well as North-western America, 

 and returned from China by the direct route to England in the be- 

 ginning of 1789. In the following year he was appointed in the 

 capacity of naturalist, and with the rank of surgeon, to accompany 

 Captain Vancouver, on board the Discovery, in his celebrated voy- 

 age ; from which, after visiting King George's Sound on the south 

 coast of New Holland, a part of New Zealand, Otaheite and the 

 Sandwich Islands, and exploring by far the greater part of the north- 

 west coast of America, he returned to England in the autumn of 

 1795. During one of the visits made by this expedition to the Sand- 

 wich Islands he ascended Wha-ra-rai and Mowna-roa, two of the 

 principal mountains of the island of Owhyhee, and determined their 

 heights (that of the latter exceeding 13,000 feet) by barometrical 



