394 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
rheumatism and nervous fevers, which for months rendered 
me entirely useless. Yet, at intervals, I have not been un- 
mindful of my favourite pursuits, and have in reality con- 
tinued to amass a very large collection of plants, among 
which are many new ones. And now that my health is 
improved, I intend to leave this place (Chachapoyas) in a 
few days, to join the Bishop of Maynas on his visit to the 
Missions of the interior, on the river Ucayalli, and as that 
district has not been visited by any men of scientific know- 
ledge, I expect to find much novelty, and under the protec- 
tion of the Bishop, shall have many advantages which I 
could not enjoy if I travelled by myself.” Mr. Maclean, 
however, while at Liverpool, in December, 1841, received 
accounts from Lima, informing him that Matthews was too 
ill to undertake the journey, and in April of the present year, - 
the same gentleman received the news of his death. 
Sale of Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium. 
Before the present number of our Journal meets the 
public eye, one of the most extensive and valuable Herbaria 
ever formed by a private individual, and which had been 
thrown open during the greater part of the last half century, 
in the most liberal manner, by its late estimable possessor, to 
men of science of every country, will have been offered for 
sale in separate lots, and dispersed far and wide. We mean 
the costly collections of the late A. B. Lambert, Esq. The 
history, or rather a list of the various Herbaria forming this 
immense Hortus Siccus has been given by Mr. David Don, 
in the last volume of the « Monograph of the genus Pinus; 
but since that period, there have been very considerable 
additions; nor did the venerable possessor’s desire to 
increase his stores of vegetable treasures cease till within 
very few days of his death. 
The specimens, we believe, are prepared for sale by being 
arranged in bundles according to countries, or as the collec- 
tions of some distinguished botanist or traveller. The whole 
