EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS. 5 



in the Pharmacy, posted the ledgers, and was not 

 unmindful that physicians' prescriptions should be ac- 

 curately dispensed. 



Report speaks also of his care in buying, and that 

 his judgment was infallible in recognizing specimens we 

 know from experience. In this department of know- 

 ledge he may fairly be classed with Guibourt. 



In the year 1844 he entered as a student in the Becomes a 



member of 



Laboratory at Bloomsbury Square, and was elected the Phar- 

 a member of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1857. Society. 

 Throughout his life he was engaged in promoting its 

 prosperity, both in private and in an official capacity 

 though never on its Council and he was a member 

 of the Phytological Club (1852), of which Professor 

 Bentley was President, and which was intended to 

 foster a love of Botany among the juniors and the 

 students. 



The commencement of his business life (1841) is 

 coincident with the first publication of the Transactions 

 of the Pharmaceutical meetings, to which he became a 

 regular contributor. His Papers, many in number and Papers. 

 invariably of the same character, date from January 

 1850, and as in his person, dress, and manner, there was 

 no visible change between the opening of the Great 

 Exhibition and the time of his decease, so this com- 

 munication on Turnsole or Tournesol, though short, is 

 constructed on the same framework as the Pharmaco- 

 graphia : it contains the same marshalling of facts and 

 dates, the same citation of authorities, the same micro- 

 scopic carefulness, while the last sentence might have 

 been written yesterday : - 



" In conclusion, it may be observed as a curious fact, that 

 although formerly in general demand, turnsole rags appear to 



