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Charles Morgan Lemann, M.D., was born in London in 1806, and 

 received the first rudiments of education from Mr. Atkins at Langley 

 Broom. He was afterwards in 1819 sent to Yverdun in Switzerland, 

 where he passed three years under the care of Pestalozzi, and on his 

 return to England was entered at Dr. Mayn's school at Epsom, and 

 subsequently pursued his studies under a private tutor, till he was 

 qualified to enter Trinity College Cambridge, where in 1828 he took 

 the degree of M.B., and in 1833 that of Doctor of Medicine. He 

 pursued his medical studies in London 1828, Paris 1828, and 

 Edinburgh 1832 ; in 1831 he obtained Dr. Grant's Gold Medal for 

 Comparative Anatomy at University College, London. In 1831 he 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and he was admitted a 

 Fellow of the College of Physicians in London in 1836. Dr. 

 Lemann never steadily pursued the practice of his profession. 

 His health was never strong, and he accompanied his father to 

 Madeira, where he passed two years (1837-38), and subsequently 

 the winter of 1840-41 at Gibraltar. He also twice visited Italy in 

 1834-35 as a physician to Lord Warwick's family. During these 

 excursions his early taste for botany was confirmed, and he devoted 

 the remainder of his life to this absorbing and delightful science. 

 He made large collections in Madeira and TenerifFe and the South 

 of Spain, and from his liberal subscriptions to botanical collectors 

 and the contributions of his friends, he formed a very extensive and 

 valuable herbarium, comprising a nearly complete Flora of Madeira 

 and the Canaries ; besides being very rich in the plants of Spain and 

 the South of Europe, North America, Brazil and Guiana, the Cape 

 and Australia, and miscellaneous collections from all parts of the 

 world. The great bulk of this fine herbarium, amounting (it is 

 believed) to 30,000 species, with a portion of his botanical library, 

 has been presented in compliance M'ith his wishes, by his brother, 

 Mr. Frederick Lemann, to the University of Cambridge, which 

 has made the requisite, arrangements for its preservation, having 

 been so fortunate as to secure the invaluable services of Mr. 

 Bentham to superintend the primary inspection of it. Few men, 

 not professedly botanists, ever had a more intimate knowledge 

 of plants than Dr. Lemann, and his readiness in communicating 

 what he knew will long be remembered by a large circle of 

 friends. But his modesty and difiidence prevented him from ever 

 communicating this knowledge through the press. It was the ex- 

 clusive occupation of the later years of his life to study the rich 

 materials he had collected, and to communicate to those around him 

 the facts he had ascertained ; nor was there any kind of service which 



