Aylmer Bourke Lambert

Aylmer Bourke Lambert ( born February 2, 1761 Bath, Somerset, † January 10, 1842 in Kew Green ) was an English botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Lamb. ".

Life and work

Aylmer Bourke Lambert was the only son of the landowner Edmund Lambert of Boyton House, near Heytesbury in Wiltshire, and his first wife Bridget Bourke, daughter of an Irish Viscount. Even as a child, Lambert operated as a collector; he put on a museum in Boyton, before he came to school. At the age of 12 he was sent to the Hackney School. There, he held upright under a Mr. Newcome, especially his botanical collecting. After his mother died young, his father in 1773 married a daughter of the naturalist Henry Seymer who owned a large exotic garden with a rich Conch Collection. Aylmer Bourke Lambert spent several times its holidays with the family Seymer in Hanford, Dorset. Since Henry Seymer corresponded with many botanists in correspondence, Lambert got so contact Richard Pulteney of Blandford and the Dowager Duchess of Portland, whose herbarium he bought later.

From his mother inherited Lambert land in Jamaica and Ireland; this, together with a later paternal inheritance, enabled him to life to be financially independent and to devote himself entirely to his botanical or natural history passions. Both his father and his mother encouraged him to devote himself to the study of nature.

Lambert wrote at January 26, 1779 as a " commoner " at St Mary Hall, Oxford University one, but never graduated from. At the University he met Daniel Lysons, later Joseph Banks and James Edward Smith know. After three years of study he left Oxford and lived henceforth in London and Salisbury; He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Bowater from Allesley, Warwickshire. His wife died early. Lambert took a trip to Ireland to visit the local family-owned.

Lambert became a close friend of James Edward Smith, who allowed him to become a member in 1788 at the founding of the Linnean Society of London. In 1796 he was appointed by Smith to one of the four vice-presidents of the company, and from then until his death he was almost fifty years vice president of the society. At the end of his tenure, he was the last surviving member from the founding period.

1791 Lambert was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society. Lambert was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London and several other associations.

When his father died in 1802, Lambert withdrew from Salisbury to Boyton, where he established a herbarium with about 30,000 documents.

Towards the end of his life left Lambert Boyton, that was not very conducive to his health, and moved into a house in Kew Green. He died there on 10 January 1842.

Other honors

The plant genus Lambertia Sm of the family silver tree plants ( Proteaceae ) has been designated by the friends of his British botanist James Edward Smith in his honor; next to him the epithet honors the Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana ).

Works

Lambert's major work, to which his employee assistant David Don gave considerable parts was his monograph A description of the genus Pinus about the genus of pine (Pinus ), which was at that time, however, more extensive than seen today and all conifers included. The first volume, which was dedicated to Joseph Banks and 43 colored plates contained, appeared in 1803. The second volume with 12 panels was dedicated to Richard Colt Hoare and published in 1824. From the second edition of the first volume in the 35 panels with 36 panels appeared in 1828, appointed second volume came out in 1828, a third band with 17 panels appeared in 1837. another edition in two volumes, which was dedicated to William IV, was released in 1832.

1797 published Lambert, assisted by Joseph Banks, his work A description of the genus Cinchona with illustrations by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, which was based on herbarium vouchers in Banksian. 1821 Supplement An illustration of the genus Cinchona was filed.

Lambert also contributed to the 1805 published Botanist 's guide through England and Wales by Dawson Turner and LW Dillwyn and for 1790-1814 published in English Botany by James Sowerby and James Edward Smith.

Here is a list of works:

• A description of the genus Cinchona. 1797 ( digitized ). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.488
• A description of the genus Pinus. 1803-1824, 2nd edition from 1828 to 1837, further editions in 1832, 1837-1842 and 1842 (partly in collaboration with David Don ). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.44704
• An illustration of the genus Cinchona. 1821 doi:. 10.5962/bhl.title.715