Lindley also bequeathed his herbarium to the Cambridge University Herbarium, where it now forms the Lindley Collection.[1] As Stearn remarked "I came to know his numerous publications and to admire the industry, tenacity and ability with which he undertook successfully so many different things".[35] Later Stearn would publish a major work on Lindley's life and work.[36] Lindley's contributions to horticultural taxonomy were matched only by those of Stearn himself.[5] Stearn soon set about using his antiquarian knowledge to reorganise the library, forming a pre-Linnean section.[9] Not long after his arrival the library acquired one of its largest collections, the Reginald Cory Bequest (1934),[37][38] which Stearn set about cataloguing on its arrival two years later, resulting in at least fifteen publications.[39]