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VII. Some Account of the Herbarium of Professor Pallas. Bi/ 

 Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F.R.S. and A.S., V.P.L.S. 



Read December 20, 1808, and March 21, 1809- 



Xhe Herbarium of the celebrated Professor Pallas has lately 

 come into my hands. It was brought to this country from Russia 

 by the well known travellers Dr. Clarke and Mr. Cripps, who pur- 

 chased it of him while on a visit at his house in the Crimea, and 

 afterwards, in May 1808, sold it by auction in London. 



It contains some thousands of specimens in very fine preserva- 

 tion, especially those which belong to the Russian empire, col- 

 lected in his various journeys undertaken to investigate and 

 publish the Natural History of that extensive country. The 

 plants are the best prepared of any 1 have ever seen, except a 

 collection a few years ago from Cayenne, taken from the French, 

 Avho excel so much in their manner of preparing their collections 

 of Natural History in the countries they explore ; and who have 

 of late years brought home so many valuable ones from New-Hol- 

 land, and from countries within the tropics. 



It also contains many hundreds of specimens given to Pallas 

 by various celebrated botanists. George Forster, who accom- 

 panied his father with Captain Cook in his second voyage round 

 the world, and who afterwards was engaged by the Empress 

 Catherine to join in a similar expedition, which never took effect, 



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