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is answerable for the errors committed, where such there be, as I have 

 letters of his to prove ; and so too, for the misappropriation in reference 

 to Felis Viverrinus. Of that species, my specimens had reached London 

 before Mr. Heath's, and been seen by Mr. Bennett, who had suggested 

 to me the Viverrine likeness, which I was contending was confined 

 to the head ; when to my surprise, for Mr. Bennett was in general 

 singularly fair and courteous, suddenly appeared the description of 

 a novelty ascribed to Mr. Heath. Mr. Gray (apud Hardwicke) had mean- 

 while justly given the discovery of the species to me, though he retain- 

 ed Mr. Bennett's name for it ; but as that name conveyed a false analo- 

 gy, I have chosen to adhere to my own. In short, Mr. Ogilby's cri- 

 tique is rather too much like a comment on the well-known text, *' Wo- 

 betide the researcher, who presumes to judge of his own stores." 



Extract from the Anniversary Address of the Linnean Society. 



" Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., the last survivor of the original mem- 

 bers of the Linnean Society, and for nearly fifty years one of its Vice- 

 Presidents, was born at Bath on the 2nd of February, 1761. His father, 

 Edmund Lambert, Esq., of Boyton-House, near Heytesbury, Wilts, 

 married Bridget, daughter of the last Viscount Mayo and his only sur- 

 viving child, through whom Mr. Lambert inherited the family property 

 and the name of Bourke. He w^as educated at St, Mary's Hall, in the 

 University of Oxford, and attaching himself early in life to botanical 

 pursuits, joined the Linnean Society at its foundation, and became one 

 of its warmest friends and promoters. In 1791 he also became a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society. 



On succeeding to his paternal estate, he was enabled to indulge his 

 taste for botany more freely, and laboured with great ardour and suc- 

 cess to increase his herbarium, which at length acquired the character 

 of being one of the most valuable and important private collections in 

 existence. Of this herbarium, and of the several collections from which 

 it was chiefly formed, an account has been given by Mr. Don, who for 

 many years acted as its curator, and who had also charge of Mr. Lam- 

 bert's extensive botanical library. These collections were at all times 

 most liberally opened by their possessor for the use of men of science, 

 and one day in the week (Saturday) was constantly set apart for the 



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