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where he had been very cordially received ; here he met Dr. 

 Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1821), the traveller and antiquary — 

 " one of the most engaging men you ever met with " — who 

 " visited Pallas in the Crimea and purchased his herbarium. The 

 Doctor said he was old, and when he died nobody there would 

 think it of value, and it would be thrown out of the window." 

 The actual purchase of tiie herbarium was made by John Marten 

 Cripps (d. 1853), to whom Clarke was tutor, and who accompanied 

 the latter on his Travels in Eussia, etc. : " the plants collected 

 during the route were the result of their mutual labour " (p. iv). 

 A note in Clarke's work (i. vi. 1810) runs : " Mr. Lambert is the 

 present possessor of the celebrated Herbarium of Pallas, pur- 

 chased by Mr. Cripps during his residence with the Professor 

 [Clarke] , and brought to England in the Braakel by Captain 

 George Clarke, of the Eoyal Navy, a.d. 1805." It would appear 

 therefore that subsequently to Caldwell's visit (1801) Pallas's 

 herbarium, instead of being " thrown out of the window ", was 

 disposed of by Clarke to Lambert. At Lambert's sale in 1812, 

 Pallas's herbarium was purchased for £19 for the British Museum : 

 it is now in the Department of Botany. The botany of Clarke's 

 Travels will form the subject of a later note. 



Caldwell's last letter (7 March, 1808) is not in the MS. 

 correspondence. It is rather sad reading : his health was 

 failing, and his solitary life (he was not married) although not in 

 itself " distressing," became so when sickness prevented him from 

 reading, and he had passed " a melancholy, lonely winter." He 

 had "endured a long truce with botany," but had just been to the 

 Garden — "the first visit since last June." "Botany, that in 

 England unites people and classes them in friendship, produces 

 here a contrary effect ; they are all at variance : the University 

 has displaced Dr. Scott [1757-1808] , an ingenious, lively man with 

 great merit, and a good botanist." He was looking forward to 

 seeing Smith in London, " where I scheme to be at the latter end 

 of next month " ; but this hope was not destined to be fulfilled, 

 and he died at the residence of a nephew near Bray, Co. Wicklow, 

 on the second of July of the same year. 



It may be worth while to notice briefly the other " letters 

 relative to Ireland " published in Chapter ix of the Memoir and 

 Correspondence. One of these is from Lambert (1761-1842), 

 dated " Castle Bourke, near Tuam, May 1790 " : in this he men- 

 tions the plants which he observed during his ascent of Croagh 

 Patrick, including Dahoecia polifolia/'' Lambert's copy of Hudson's 

 Flora Anglica (ed. 2), which is in the Department of Botany, con- 

 tains numerous notes in his hand on the plants of this and other 

 parts of Ireland. He visited Patrick Browne at Ballinrobe and 

 " found him in bed quite a cripple with old age and the gout. He 



* A letter from Richard Duppa appended to this refers to " the genus 

 Dahoecia"—aj name which, as a footnote points out, did not exist at the time 

 the letter Avas written (1827). It was published in 1834 by David Don, from 

 whom Duppa may have heard the name in conversation. 



