DANIEL HANBURY. 
Nor long ago we called attention to a most valuable book, 
the “ Pharmacographia, a History of Drugs,” by Professor 
Fliickiger of Strasburg and Daniel Hanbury of London, the | 
first-fruits of much investigation, the precursor, as was hoped, 
of more extended similar works by the English author. We 
have now sadly to record the decease of Mr. Hanbury, of 
enteric typhoid, on the 24th of March, at his residence on 
Clapham Common, in the fiftieth year of his age. The obit- 
uary and biographical notices which have appeared in the 
London scientific journals and in the Proceedings of the 
learned societies, as well as loving individual tributes to an 
endeared memory, have given expression to the loss which has 
been sustained, and delineated the outlines of a most worthy 
and winning character. The loss is deplored, personally and 
scientifically, over wider circles and on this side of the Atlan- 
tic. The pupil and friend of Pereira and his successor in his 
line of work, an adept in pharmaceutical knowledge, a keen 
botanist, and a most assiduous and conscientious investigator, 
a man of simple and pure tastes, and happily of sufficient 
means, he had just withdrawn wholly from business in the 
noted house in which he had an inherited share, so that he 
might devote his powers and acquisitions without distraction 
to the natural history of drugs and useful vegetable products. 
He had already done much: more than sixty articles were con- 
tributed by him to a single journal, the editor of which de- 
clares that “the quality of what he did was almost faultless,” 
that “he never wrote without having original information to 
impart, and his papers uniformly bear evidence of careful 
investigation and thorough knowledge.” The Transactions 
and Journal of the Linnzan Society (of which he was repeat- 
1 American Journal of Science and Arts, 3 ser., ix. 476. (1875.) 
