PREFACE. 





In the Pharrm^eutical Jmirnal and Transactions for July 8th, 187G, 

 p. 31, the following note will be found, which explains the circum- 

 stances under which the Daniel Hanbury Pharmaceutical Herbarium 

 and Collection of Materia Medica came into the possession of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain : 



The Materia Medica Collection of the late Daniel Hanbury. 



" Tlie President also read the following letter from Mr. Tlioma.i 

 Hanbury, relating to the botanical collection of the late 

 Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S., and suggested that tlie offer should be 

 gratefully accepted on the conditions named. 



" Ashburton House, 



" Croydon, 29 June, 1876. 

 " To the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 



" Sir, — My late dear brother Daniel Hanbury, when near his end, gave 

 me verbal instructions that he ^^'ished ' his herbarium to be diWded 

 between Kew, the Pharmaceutical Society, the British Museum, 

 and Professor Fluckiger.' 



" lu taking steps to carry out this vrish, I have heard many regrets 

 e.xpressed by the scientific friends of my late brother, that there 

 ,ihould be any division of his Pharmaceutical collection, which being 

 unique and siii generis, would, it is considered, gieatly lose in 

 interest by being divided and scattered. I share this opinion, and 

 believe that had my late brother calmly considered the matter in 

 time of health, he would have come to the same conclusion. 



" With the approval of my co-executor and my other relatives, I have 

 decided to offer the entire Pharmaceutical collection to your society, 

 on the simple condition that it should be kept apart, and labelled 

 in a suitable manner to show it was formed by my late brother, 

 and that access to the specimens and herbarium be allowed only 

 under most careful regulations to prevent injury or los.s. 

 " I am, yours faithfully, 



Thomas Hanbury." 



Mr. Sandford moved, and Mr. HiUs seconded the following, which 

 was carried unamiously : 



"That the offer of the collection of the late Daniel Hanbury to the 

 Pharmaceutical Society be accepted, ■with the best thanks of this 

 Council to his executors, and that the letter from Mr. Thomas 

 Hanbury be referred to the Library, Museum, and Laboratory 

 Committee, for the piupose of making the necessary arrangements 

 for keeping the specimens according to the wishes of the late 

 Daniel Hanbury's representatives." 



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