^296 Anniversary Address of the Linnean Society. 



" Description of a new Species of Psidium" (P. polycarponj, which 

 had ripened its fruit at Boyton, in vol. xi. 



" Some Account of the Galls found on a species of Oak from the 

 shores of the Dead Sea," and a " Note on the Mustard-plant of the 

 Scriptures," in vol. xvii. 



Mr. Lambert's health had for some years been failing, and he had 

 ceased to visit his country-seat at Boyton, but preferred, when out 

 of town, taking up his residence at Kew, where his proximity to the 

 Royal Gardens, and to his friends in town, afforded him more copious 

 sources of enjoyment than he could have found elsewhere. He died at 

 Kew, on the 10th of January in the present year, and his remains 

 were removed to Boyton for interment. He married Catharine, 

 daughter of Richard Bowater, Esq., of Allesley in the county of War- 

 wick, but was left a widower, without any family, some years before 

 his death." 



" Archibald Menzies, Esq., who, on the death of Mr. Lambert, became 

 father of the Society, was born at Weem, in the county of Perth, on 

 the 15th of March, 1754. He was early attached to the Botanic 

 Garden at Edinburgh, of which his brother William afterwards had 

 charge ; and was enabled, through the kind assistance of Dr. John Hope, 

 then Botanical Professor in that University, who was attracted by his 

 love for natural history and especially botany, to pass through the aca- 

 demical studies necessary for his education as a surgeon. In the sum- 

 mer of 1 778 he made a tour, under the auspices of Dr. Hope, through 

 the Highlands and Hebrides, with the view of collecting their rarer 

 plants, to which attention was then strongly directed by the recent pub- 

 lication of Lightfoot's * Flora Scotica.' He afterwards became assistant 

 to a surgeon at Caernarvon ; but soon quitting for a time the practice of 

 his profession on shore, he entered the navy, and became assistant- 

 surgeon on board the Nonsuch, Captain Truscott, in which vessel 

 he was prfesent at the famous victory obtained by Rodney over the 

 Comte de Grasse on the 12th of April, 1782. After the peace of that 

 year he remained for some time on the Halifax station. In 1786 he 

 embarked as surgeon on board the Prince of Wales, a vessel fitted out 

 by the enterprising firm of John and Cadman Etches and Co., and was 

 placed under the command of Lieut, (afterwards Captain) Colnett, of 

 the Royal Navy, for a voyage of commercial discovery to the north- 

 west coast of America. In this voyage he visited Staten Land, where 

 he remained for some time, the Sandwich Islands and China, as well as 

 North-western America, and returned from China by the direct route 



