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nierly knpwn under the name of Buchanan), Hawkins, and 

 Sibthorpe ; Hibbert, Hudson, Jack, Captain King, Governor 

 King; a Japanese herbarium (considered as very valuable) ; 

 the plants of Martin (the well known prize, from which Rudge 

 described h\s Flora Guy anensis); of Masson, Arch, Menzies, of 

 Nuttall (from the Missouri) ; Pallas, Governor Philipps, Pon- 

 thieu's plants from Jamaica ; the museum of the Duchess of 

 Portland, Pursh's herbarium, Raffles's, Richardson's (who 

 was with Franklin), Lieut. Roes (Ross's?), Roxburgh's, Ruiz', 

 and Pavon's (Count Lambert paid 1500/. for the latter); Sa- 

 bine's, Seaforth's (from Barbadoes), Sello's, Sieber's, Staun- 

 ton's, White's (from New South Wales), Wilkins's, Wiles's, 

 &c. &c. If the number of these collections surprises us, the 

 magnificence and variety of the specimens, and the care with 

 which they are preserved, — some under glass, as many of the 

 Arundinacecc ; some in pasteboard boxes, others in mahogany 

 cases : while entire branches of several species of Banksia^ 

 Dryandra, and Protea, are kept, each in their proper place; 

 with tubes of the Sarracenia and Nepenthes carefully laid on 

 fine cotton and stuffed with the same material, so as to look as 

 perfect as when growing in the stove, — must excite our still 

 greater admiration. The Cinchonas, which are among the 

 grandest of Lambert's favourite tribes, fill three parcels, each 

 probably containing two hundred specimens. This truly no- 

 ble Count, — who is to England what Count Sternberg is to 

 Bohemia, Count Hoffmannsegg to Saxony, and Baron De 

 Lessert to France, — is still by no means among the number of 

 those English Lords " quibus Pactolus Jluit .-" but with his well 

 employed thousands he has done more for science, and con- 

 sequently been more useful to mankind, than many with their 

 hundreds of thousands. His name will therefore live in the 

 annals of improvement, and for centuries and centuries be held 

 in grateful remembrance. 



Whilst we were employed in viewing Count Lambert's trea- 

 sures, a little man dressed in black entered the apartment ; and 

 he cast a glance full of sorrow and indignation upon some 

 packages which belonged to the herbarium of Ruiz and Pavon. 

 This look attracted my attention, as did the general elevated 

 physiognomy of this person. I could not suppress my curio- 

 sity, and asked Mr. Don who this little man might be. When 

 he replied, Senor Lagasca ! I threw myself into the arms of 

 my old friend, who was much puzzled to imagine who I could 

 be, lor we had only known each other by correspondence, which 

 had continued for some years ; and here we met, as in a dream, 

 where we least expected to see one another. Poor J^agasca ! he 

 had not only lost all his domestic happiness, (his wife and five 



children 



