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appointment. He took up vertebrate palaeontology after a rather 

 long training in the study of invertebrate fossils with the late Dr. 

 J. F. Whiteaves. His published papers include, besides contributions 

 to these two branches of palaeontology, a number of papers on marine 

 sponges of the present seas. The long list of his contributions to 

 natural history and palaeontology, which number nearly 100 titles, 

 shows clearly the breadth of his interests. His best known inver- 

 tebrate work is, "A Revision of the Genera and Species of Canadian 

 Palaeozoic Corals." 



Nearly all the papers prepared during the last fifteen years of his 

 life, however, dealt with vertebrate palaeontology. In this subject 

 his name stands pre-eminent in Canada. Among the important papers 

 which' he prepared in recent years, were those describing the Triassic 

 fishes of the Rocky Mountains. We are also indebted to him for 

 important contributions to our knowledge of the Devonian fishes of 

 New Brunswick. 



During recent years he had devoted himself chiefly to the study 

 of the remarkable vertebrate fauna of the Red Deer river valley in 

 Alberta, which region is considered by some of the highest authorities 

 to be the richest region for vertebrate fossils in the world. Already 

 he had described some of those enormous and bizarre dinosaurs which 

 are being found in this section of the Canadian Cretaceous and he was 

 engaged on this work at the time of his sudden death. The Transac- 

 tions for this year will contain some of his unfinished work, including 

 an uncompleted memoir describing a remarkable new genus and 

 species {Panoplosaurus minis) of armed dinosaur from the Belly 

 River deposits of Alberta. His work secured for him an international 

 reputation and he will be remembered as one of a famous band of 

 North American vertebrate palaeontologists. Palaeontology has lost 

 one of its most ardent students and one who was destined, had he not 

 been struck down in the full vigour of life, to add a wonderful chapter 

 to the history of the development of animal life on this continent. 



Mr. Lawrence Lambe belonged to that small group of men who 

 find in their work their greatest pleasure. Palaeontological work 

 was to him indeed a labour of love. The little worries of life seemed 

 never to penetrate his optimistic temperament. His friends will 

 long remember the cheery smile and kindly word with which he always 

 greeted them. Mr. Lambe accomplished much toward revealing 

 Canada's early vertebrate life and wherever such knowledge is cher- 

 ished his death will be deeply regretted. 



