In accoi'diiiicc with the wighcs then expressed by Mr. Thomas 



I l.uibniy, the collection of i)l;int.s, as well as that of materia inwlica, 

 is kepi apart in a loom now known as the llanbiiry ll'>om. Consc- 

 i|uentlj- it appeared to the Council to be desirable that a separate 

 catalogue of the collections should be published. 



The specimens collected by Daniel Hanbury himself are, as a rule, 

 excellently preserved and complete in detail, but in the case of some 

 received from abroad, it has evidently been impossible to obtain a 

 complete set of specimens. A few, for this reason, or because they 

 belonged to species at that date undescribed, were labelled with the 

 generic name only. In such a case, if the plant has been subsequently 

 described, the specific name has been added by the Curator of the 

 Museum. In every case in which exjjlanatoiy matter has been 

 added, it has been enclosed in brackets thus [ ], so that the 

 Catiilogue e.xclusive of these portions represents the Herbarium as 

 left by Daniel Hanbury. The copious notes and extracts from 

 letters of foreign correspondents have been given in full, except 

 where an abstract has been found sufficient to express all the 

 contents of the letter referring to the particular specimen. 



It is hoped that by giving dates, localities, and references to published 

 works, etc., the Catalogue may be found useful in economising the 

 time and aiding the investigations of j)ersons desirous of consulting 

 the herbarium, and that it will enable working pharmacists and 

 botanists to ascertain easily whether any plant or part of a plant 

 suitable for piu'poses of comparison can be seen in the Herbarium. 



The classification adopted is that of Bentham and Hooker's 

 " Genera Plantarum." The plants are arranged alphabetically 

 under each natural order. Where the natural orders in the work 

 above-mentioned have been made to include groups of plants as 

 tribes or suborders formerly treated as distinct natural orders, 

 those tribes or suborders are given, and the plants are arranged 

 alphabetically under them. The separate sheets of specimens are 

 indicated by italic letters, and the specimens on each sheet by 

 ordinary numerals enclosed in parentheses. 



The Hanbury Herbariiun contains several autograph letters and 

 labels bearing the handwriting of celebrated botanists. These are 

 referred to in the Index under their respective names. A list of 

 the works quoted in this Catalogue is given, together with an 

 annotated list of the Herbaria referred to in the text. Further 

 details regarding these Herbaria may be found in "La Phytogiviphie," 

 by A. De CandoUe (Masson, Paris, 1880), and in "Jlusee Botanique," 

 de M. B. Delessert, Par A. Lasfegue (Paris, Fortin, Masson and Cie, 

 1845). 



