6 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



have fallen into complete disuse everywhere but in Holland, in 

 which country all that are now produced are consumed. Of the 

 uses to which they are applied by the Dutch, we are still in 

 want of more precise information." 



Special The secret of the construction of these papers, which 

 Books, were put together with laborious industry, is disclosed 

 by the manuscripts he has left behind. In his library 

 were found not only consecutive note-books, beautifully 

 written and indexed, but others, each devoted to a 

 special subject. Such for instance were 



I. Papers relating to Rottlera tinctoria, Roxb., and 

 Kamala. 



II. Notes on Turkish Materia Medica. 



III. Papers relating to odoriferous species of Andro- 

 pogon, chiefly East Indian. 



IV. Papers relating to the Pharmacopoeia of India. 



V. Notes and Memoranda relating to Storax and 

 Liquid ambar. 



VI. Notes on Cardamoms and various other Scitami- 

 neous Fruits and Seeds. 



These contained memoranda, personal observations, 

 letters, price lists, scraps from newspapers, and infor- 

 mation drawn from commercial men, books ancient and 

 modern, travellers, men of science, maps, and missionaries. 

 Also notes and inquiries to and from young men who 

 had obtained foreign posts and gone abroad. The com- 

 plete series of his papers is over eighty in number ; they 

 are beyond criticism, and are uniformly original. 

 S p' i l J. ific Many have made their appearance in various scientific 

 journals English, American, and foreign. A reference has 

 been given to such as have been translated in Buchner's 

 Neues Repertoriiun fur Fharmacie, Munich a publi- 

 cation which Daniel Hanbury held in special esteem, 





