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they came from hence, being part of an intended 

 Flora Dabliniensis, published by Dr. Wade, a phy- 

 sician here, and a very good botanist. He has been 

 the means of establishing a botanic garden here. 

 Having very lately applied to parliament for that 

 purpose, they have granted three hundred pounds 

 for the first year to begin it ; and I believe Dr. 

 Wade will have the direction of it. He was with 

 me yesterday, and wishes very much to become a 

 correspondent with the Linnsean Society, and like- 

 wise to establish one in this country on the same 

 plan as ours, and he will be much obliged to you 

 to send him the rules, &c. I am very glad to hear 

 from Dr. Pulteney that the Linnaean Society will 

 soon publish a volume of Acta. Any botanical 

 news will be very acceptable to me, as I am now in 

 a kingdom that is not very famous for science, and 

 I do not find it very easy to get information. 



I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. 



A. B. Lambert. 



P.S. The following account is in a book lately 

 published in Ireland, which perhaps you may not 

 have seen : " On the see lands of the Bishop of 

 Dromore were found in 1783 a pair of elk horns, 

 which measured from tip to tip fourteen feet four 

 inches, as also almost the entire skeleton, in the 

 most perfect preservation, of the enormous animal 

 that wore them. From the length of the bones of 

 his fore-legs he is judged to have been almost 

 twenty hands high. 



