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20. Sir G. L. Staunton gave duplicates of all the specimens eoUected during the Embassy to China. 

 These mcluded many very interesting plants: many of thdse" of Osbeek; and many colleeted at 

 Rio Janeiro, St. Jago, Teneriffe, Madrid, St. Helena, &c. 



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21 . Mr. Archibald Menzies, who circumnavi gated the globe with Capt. Vancouver in search of plants, 

 presented duplicates of a great part of the specimens collected in that voyage. Among them are 

 some very interesting plants from the neighbourhood of Cape Horn. 



22. A very considerable Herbarium, part of that superb collection of Natural History which was con- 

 signed, by order of the French Government, from Cayenne to the National Museum at Paris, and cap- 

 tured by two British privateers in 1803. Of this one half Avas purchased by Mr. Lambert, containing 

 several duplicates of each species in the ■whole collection. ' ' 



23. The very extensive Herbarium of the celebrated Professor Pallas collected in the various provinces of 

 the Russian empire, which was purchased at Petcrsburgh during the tyrannical reign of Paul I- by Mr. 

 Cripps, companion of the late Dr. Clarke, and by him resold to Mr. Lambert. This collection contains 

 a great number of species yet undescribed: also all the plants Bgured in Gmelin's Flora S'lberka, and 



' the identical specimens from which the figures in Flora JRomca were taken. Some of the genera, as 

 Astragalus, Onosma, Saxifraga^ Pedicularis, and Potentilla^ are very rich in species. The genus Aslra- 

 galus contains fine specimens with several duplicates of each of the species described and figured in 

 PalWs ir/oreoyra/?A. This Herbarium contains all the specimens collected by the Assistant and Pupils 

 of the Professor, in their Travels through the different provinces of the Russian Empire: those collected by 

 Gmelin, Georgi, Steller, by Dr. Merk in Billing s Expedition, and by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, in the 

 Northern Provinces of Persia- It likewise comprises numerous specimens from Thunberg, the late Sir 

 Joseph Banks, and other distinguished Naturalists; and a duplicate collection of the plants gathered by 

 George Forster in "Cook's Second Voyage," which even contains many finer specimens than those in his 

 own Herbarium also in Mr, Lambert's possession, 



24. Dr. Roxburgh enriched this Herbarium with numerous large collections, made in continental India, and 



in Banda, Amboyna, and other islands of the Indian Archipelago. These amounted to several thousand 

 species; and among them were several species of the Nutmeg. Dr. Roxburgh liiiewise sent all the speci- 

 mens and seeds collected by him at the Cape of Good Hope, where he resided a twelvemonth. 



25. Mr. John Roxburgh, who resided aC the Cape four or five years for the purpose of collecting plants, sent 

 "1 also several very large collections of specimens, well preserved, and particularly rich in the genera Erica, 



Brunia, Viosma, Phylica^f Borhonia^ Hermanma, Aspalathus, Mahernia, ^c. 



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26. Dr. Adam Afzelius, a distinguished naturalist, and now Demonstrator of Botany in the University of Upsal, 



divided with Mr. Lambert an ample collection of specimens made during several years residence in the 

 British settlement of Sierra Leone. 



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27. From Governor King was received a fine collection of New Holland specimens. 



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28. From Mr. Caleywaspurchased part of the extensive Herbarium formed by him during several years 



residence in new Holland. This was a valuable addition, many genera as Daviesia, Gnaphalium, Pultencea, 

 PWa«c/m,Hii/.^;-^ea,&c. being particularly rich: the genus £«ca/3,;>to alone contains upwards of 50 



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29. Dr. Francis Hamilton, (former'ly Buchanan,) so justly celebrated as a traveller and naturalist, l.berally p^e- 



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