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aim of improving their social couditious. He was opposed to 

 indiscriminate charity, regarding it as one of the canses of 

 pauperism and the natural demoralization which is the usual 

 result of receiving something for nothing. 



That Dr. Lamborn recognized the institutions which foster the 

 various branches of science as fitting beneficiaries of his wealth was 

 evidenced by the placing of his collections of ai'clueological books, 

 ethnological objects, Etruscan relics, Mexican pottery, etc., where, 

 free to the public, they ma}'' be used for reference and instruction 

 as additions to the educational resources of the several repositories. 

 He advocated the opening of all museums, parks, art galleries 

 and places of healthful recreation to the public on Sunday, that 

 all might be brought in contact with the beautiful in nature and 

 with man's best handiwork. He placed none of his collections in 

 any museum which exacted an admission fee. 



Although Dr. Lamborn was a man of large means, he fre- 

 quently suggested money-making schemes to young people whom 

 he wished to employ, by offering work on a profit-sharing basis, 

 his object being to engage the earnest attention of students and 

 to develop a love of research, ends more likely to be secured by 

 copartnership than by patronage. As an incentive to study, he 

 frequently offered prizes of money for the investigation of vari- 

 ous scientific questions, his interest being esj^ecially in the direction 

 of the cultivation of bees and flowers. 



Shortly before his death Dr. Lamborn placed a sum of money 

 with the President of Swarthmore College to be paid in prizes for 

 the two clearest and most useful essays upon the theme, " AVhat 

 important inventions, discoveries, observations, ideas or acts tend- 

 ing to advance civilization have been contributed by members of 

 the Society of Friends, or by persons descended from members of 

 that Society, or by persons guided or employed by such members, 

 with an estimate of the number of members composing the Society 

 each twenty years since its foundation." Some essays were 

 written in response but have not been published. 



During the greater part of his active life Dr. Lamborn was 

 conscious of the existence of organic cardiac weakness, which, it 

 is believed, deterred him from marrying, and resulted in his sud- 

 den death in New York, after a slight, apparently trivial, indisj)o- 

 sition, January 14, 1895. 



