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St. Mary's Hall, in the University of Oxford, and attaching himself 

 early in life to botanical pursuits, joined the Linnean Society at its 

 foundation, and became one of its warmest friends and promoters. In 

 1791 he also became a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



On succeeding to his paternal estate, he was enabled to indulge his 

 taste for botany more freely, and laboured with great ardour and suc- 

 cess to increase his herbarium, which at length acquired the charac- 

 ter of being one of the most valuable and important private collec- 

 tions in existence. Of this herbarium, and of the several collections 

 from which it was chiefly formed, an account has been given by Mr. 

 Don, who for many years acted as its curator, and who had also 

 charge of Mr, Lambert's extensive botanical library. These collec- 

 tions were at all times most hberally opened by their possessor for 

 the use of men of science, and one day in the week (Saturday) was 

 constantly set apart for the reception of scientific visitors, travellers 

 and others, who either brought with them or sought for information 

 on botanical subjects. 



Mr. Lambert's separate publications are two in number : " A De- 

 scription of the Genus Cinchona," London, 1797, 4to, and "A De- 

 scription of the Genus Pinus," London, 1803—24, in two vols, folio. 

 Of the latter work, which is one of the most splendid botanical pub- 

 lications that ever issued from the press, a second edition, with addi- 

 tions, was published in 1828, and a third volume was added in 1834. 

 A small edition, in two vols. 8vo, was also published in 1832. 



His other works consist entirely of papers in our ' Transactions.' 

 They are as follows : — 



"An Account of the Cams Grains Hibernicus, or Irish Wolf-Dog," 

 in vol. ii. 



"Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, author of the 'Natural 

 History of Jamaica'," in vol. iv., containing some interesting par- 

 ticulars relative to that intelligent naturalist, from whom Mr. Lam- 

 bert received and presented to this Society his MS. of a ' Flora Hi- 

 bernica,' together with a small herbarium, collected in the counties 

 of Mayo and Galway, and a separate collection of Mosses. 



" A Description of the Blight of Wheat, Uredo Frumenti," 



" A Description of Bos frontalis, a new species from India," de- 

 scribed from a Uving specimen in the collection of Mr. Brookes of 

 the New Road. 



" Observations on the Zizania aquatica," accompanied by a figure 

 from the pencil of Ferdinand Bauer, taken from specimens grown by 

 Sir Joseph Banks in a pond at Spring-grove. 



" A further Account of Bos frontalis," containing numerous par- 



