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ihe University of Boml^ay, and being an eminent linguist he 

 was for many years a member of the Presidency Board for the 

 examination of officers in Oriental languages. Bombay being 

 the drug market of the East^ he availed himself of the many 

 opportunities of examining new and rare vegetable products, 



knowled 



able to 



identify the sources of the drugs. Ho was for some years 

 Professor of Materia Medica in the Grant Medical College, and, 



as a teacher of this science, he was said not to have a rival in 

 India. 



Dr. Dymock'g literary contributions to the Pharmaceutical 

 Journal commenced in 1875 with a paper on '•' The Asafoeti- 

 das of the Bombay Market," this was followed by others on 

 *'Ammoniacum and Dorema Root/' "Myrrh" and " Chaul- 

 raoogra Oil." In 1876, the well-known ''Notes on Indian 

 Drugs " first appeared, and were a feature of the Journal for 

 the next four years. Specimens of these drugs were at the 



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Museum, and were sent to pharmacologists in England and the 

 Continent for chemical investigation. In 1383 he brought out 



his " Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India," and this 

 was amplified into a second edition only two j^ears afterwards. 

 The publication of a more comprehensive work on Indian 

 Materia Medica, based on the same plan, was conceived in 

 1888, and next year the first part of the '' Pharmacographia 

 Indica " was issued. The greater responsibility of this work 

 rested with him, and to it he gave his whole time until his fatal 

 illness compelled him to cease from his labours a few days 

 before he died. The manuscript of the sixth part, as far as he 

 could prepare it, was written, and he compiled an index and an 

 appendix which will be printed as soon as possible. 



Dr. Dymock was one of the founders of the Anthropological 

 Society of Bombay, and most actively supported the Society in 

 ! t !cf^^*^^^ ^^^ ® positions of member of the Council, President 



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address was, 



rary Secretary. The subject of his 



llodearch," and amon 



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meetiu 



