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language used by How towards Parkinson, who seems to have fairly 

 acquired the use of Lobel's materials by purchase. 



There is one droll misprint which we must notice. On page 21 

 Lobel is said to have observed certain plants " en Danemarck et aux 

 environs de Newgate; " of course Highgate is intended. The modern 

 style of bedding-out has familiarised (in the well-known blue Lobelia) 

 the name of Lobel to many ; both to these, and others who have 

 a more extended knowledge of Botanical History, we heartily com- 

 mend this pamphlet. B. D. J. 



Science Papers ; chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical. By Daniel 

 Hanburt, F.R.S. Edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince. 

 London : Macmillan and Co., 1876 (8vo, pp. 544). 



This volume contains reprints of the various papers contributed by 

 the late D. Hanbury to the " Pharmaceutical Journal," the " Tran- 

 sactions and Journal of the Linnean Society,'' and a few other 

 periodicals ; they are eighty-one in number, and were published 

 during the quarter-century 1850 — 1875. A memoir of forty pages 

 is prefaced, and the book is adorned by an admirable portrait, whilst 

 a very copious index of twenty- seven pages concludes the volume. 



"We have so lately (J. Bot., 1875, p. 52) noticed fully the great 

 work which Hanbury, so fortunately for science, lived to complete, 

 and on which his reputation will principally and most securely rest, 

 that there is little to be said on the subject-matter of these papers. 

 It is chiefly as exhibiting the author's mode of work, and the singular 

 accuracy and almost painful care with which he compiled them, that 

 their republication is now of value ; the great bulk of them being 

 preliminaries of the articles in the " Pharmacographia," and the re- 

 sults embodied in that admirable treatise. Very few men of science 

 have been able to restrict themselves so completely to a limited field 

 of research as Hanbury, and still fewer to persevere so pertinaciously 

 in the discovery and attainment of accurate information and definite 

 settlement of long-disputed points. The secret of his success, as his 

 biographer tells us in his rather incoherent and fragmentary memoir, 

 was his power of perseverance. " Having set before him one definite 

 line of action, he pursued it to the unwavering exclusion of other 

 influences, and neither the charms of scenery nor historic associations 

 [in his travels], still less the voice of pleasure, could tempt him from 

 his course." " He has left behind him a voluminous correspondence 

 absolutely devoted to scientific subjects and unrelieved by a solitary 

 domestic detail." 



The volume is, indeed, a very perfect memorial of the author, and 

 reflects his truthful character on every page. The most important 

 papers are the " Notes on Chinese Materia Medica" and those on 

 " Storax," on " Gamboge," and on *' Manna," all of which are 

 models of this kind of research, and form a standard with which few 

 memoirs will bear comparison. 



The papers are arranged in no intelligible order — a combination of 

 systematic and chronological apparently. The source of each should 

 have been placed at its head instead of being relegated to a table, 

 diflScult to find, near the end of the book. The index, too, is unneces- 



