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looked through the rooms of the society. Don offered 
to give me every possible facility in my pursuits, but 
of course I said nothing to him about Pursh’s ! herba- 
rium at Lambert’s, of which he was formerly curator ; 
for since he married Lambert’s housekeeper, or cook, 
I forget which, Lambert will not allow him to come 
into the house. From here Hooker took me, — stop- 
ping by the way at Philip’s, one of the most eminent 
painters, whose gallery we saw,—to the house of 
Lambert? himself, the queerest old mortal I ever set 
eyes on. But Carey’s description of the man was so 
accurate that I should have known him anywhere. I[ 
was of course invited to breakfast with him any morn- 
ing at nine; he showed us his Cacti stuffed with plas- 
ter of paris, among others a very curious one called 
muff-cactus, which really looks just like a lady’s muff 
and is not much smaller. Lambert’s specimens are 
the only ones known, and he gave for them something 
like a hundred guineas, — the old goose! A woman has 
the care of his collections in place of Don. She stuffs 
the cacti and seems quite as enthusiastic as old Lam- 
bert himself. We went next to the Horticultural 
Society’s rooms in Regent Street in hopes to find Mr. 
Bentham ; but instead we met Lindley, who received 
us very politely; he asked me to send him my address 
the moment I was settled in lodgings. . . . Here I 
parted from Hooker for the present, declining an invi- 
tation to join him at the dinner of the Royal Society’s 
Club, for which I was afterwards almost sorry, as I 
should have met there Hallam, the historian, and 
1 Frederic Pursh, 1774-1820. Emigrated to America, 1799. Trav- 
— and collected much; settled later in Montreal, where he died. 
2 Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 1762-1842; author of the Genus Pinus 
and the Genus Cinchona. Owned a very large herbarium comprising 
plants of Pursh, who published under his liberal patronage. 
