MEMORIAL OF L. y\ . LAM HP: 89 



Margaret Morris, daughter of the late Hon. William Morris, of Montreal, 

 was born in ^lontreal, August 2T, 1863. He was one of a family of five 

 sisters and two brothers. William B. Lambe, the father of Lawrenee, 

 was an Englishman who came to Canada when a young man. His mother 

 was of Scotch descent. As a boy he enjoyed the advantages which the 

 abundant means of his parents was able to furnish. 



The early education of Mr. Lambe was received at private schools. 

 He graduated from the Royal Military College at Kingston, Ontario, in 

 1883. His training in a military school was no doubt in part responsible 

 for the interest which for some years he took in military matters. At 

 one time he held a commission as lieutenant in the Governor GeneraPs 

 Foot Guards. Mr. Lambe was married in 1902 to Miss Mabel Maud 

 ♦Schreiber. 



Lambe's college training was taken with a view to entering the pro- 

 fession of civil engineer. He secured shortly after his graduation from 

 college a position with the engineers of the mountain division of the 

 C P. R. It is most probable that he would have remained a civil en- 

 gineer but for the fact that an attack of typhoid fever compelled his 

 return home. Although offered after his recovery another position on the 

 ■engineering staff of the C. P. E., he preferred an appointment to the 

 Canadian Geological Survey. 



Much of Mr. Lambe's training in zoology and paleontology was ac- 

 quired chiefly through his association with that keen naturalist and pale- 

 ontologist, Dr. J. F. Whiteaves. This association began when Laml)e, at 

 the age of twenty-two, received his first appointment to the Canadian 

 Geological Survey as artist and assistant to Dr. Whiteaves. At a con- 

 siderably later period he studied with Dr. H. F. Osborn at Columbia 

 ['nivcrsity. Concerning this period of "Mr. Lambe's career, *Dr. Osborn 

 writes a.<* follows :- 



"When I was :ii)i)<)iiit(Ml. in April. IIXX). on the Geological Survey of Canada 

 us paleontologist, to succeed I'l^of. Edward I>, Cope, I chose Mr, Lawrence M. 

 Lambe as my chief associate and I immediately engaged with him in the study 

 of th«' fauna of the Belly River, which was published in 11X)2 (see Osborn 

 liil>liography. 11)02. i)age 217). He afterward came to Columbia University 

 :ind took my full cuursr in vertcbi-.-itc iialeontology." 



In a letter to Dr. George M. Dawson, accepting the direction of the 

 Canadian Survey's work in vertebrate paleontology. Dr. H. F. Osborn 

 took ])ains to point out that Lambe was to have credit for all of tlie work 

 wliicli he did, and lie ])]ainied for the vert^bratv work to be taken over bv 



•letter to K. M. Kln<ll»'. I>.><fmlMM- i'.;. l'.tl'.>. 



