J. B. LAMBERT- BUGOLOGIST 

Transcribed form the SCHELLENS COLLECTION 
Walter Castor


Pg. 329  Yosemite  Mariposa Co.  1896
SF Chronicle Apr. 26, 1896:

"Merced, April 25.   J. B. LAMBERT, the bugologist of Yosemite Valley who was 
found dead in his cabin last Sunday, was undoubtedly murdered. A large bullet 
hole was found in his head over the right temple, and from the condition of 
the body the wound must have been inflicted at least two weeks before the body 
was found. The deceased had no money and no known enemies. His cabin was found 
locked from the outside with a padlock. The impression of his neighbors is 
that the killing was the work of Indians, the result of a quarrel over a squaw. 
LAMBERT had been a resident of the Yosemite Valley reservation for years, and 
gained a livelihood as an entomologist, in which profession he was an expert. 
He aided John MUIR in his glacier investigations of the Yosemite in the 
seventies."

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