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firm of Allen, Haiibury, and Barry, of wliich his father was an 

 active member. In the year 1844 he studied at the laboratory of 

 the Pharmaceutical Society. In January 1850 he made his first 

 contribution to the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' on "Turnsole." 

 From that time to the present his papers are scattered thickly 

 through the volumes of that Journal, numbering, according to the 

 index, sixty-one, the last being in an article entitled " Cinchona or 

 Chinchona," published on the 13th of February in the present 

 year. 



The series of papers on Chinese Materia Medica, published in 

 the years 1860-62, were highly esteemed by those most capable 

 of appreciating them, and afibrd a characteristic example of accurate 

 and careful research. 



The work upon which he had been engaged for many years in 

 conjunction with Professor Fliickiger, the ' Pharmacographia,' was 

 completed and published last year. This work is a storehouse of 

 reliable information to which future generations will have recourse, 

 and it is by his part in this important work that he will hereafter be 

 best known. No one can read the historic sections of the book 

 without being struck by the vast variety and extent of reading to 

 which they bear witness. 



Narratives of travels were especially attractive to him. lie took 

 nothing at second hand, and his library contained many Latin vo- 

 lumes of the early Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish voyagers. 



Whilst alluding to his writings mention must be made of the 

 important part he took in the preparation of the ' Pharmacopoeia 

 of India,' a work involving much labour. He was also one of those 

 deputed to draw up the Admiralty manual of scientific inquiry. 

 Botany was the science to which he especially devoted his atten- 

 tion. Besides several papers in the Journal of our Society he 

 contributed to the Transactions the following papers : — " Note on 

 Cassia moscJiata, H. B. & K.," xxiv. 161 ; " On the species of 

 Garcinia which affords Gamboge in Siam (G. morella),'' xxiv. 

 487 ; and, with Mr. Currey, " Eemarks on Sclerotium stipitatum 

 and similar Productions," xxiii. 93. 



Occasionally he contributed an article to the literary periodicals. 

 A paper containing curious information on Frangipani in ' Notes 

 and Queries,' and another on the botanical origin and country of 

 Myrrh, published in ' Ocean Highways ' for April 1873 will be 

 remembered by some of our readers. He occasionally contributed 

 to the 'Athenceum ;' and he wrote for the ' Academy ' a review of 



