12 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



A similar missive was despatched to the Academy, 

 and published April 3, 1875, in which he argues that 

 the Linnean orthography of the word Cinchona may be 

 maintained, though the Countess of Chinchon spelt her 

 name otherwise, and Mr. Clements R. Markham followed 

 her example. 



Etymoio- These discussions on etymology are not strange to 

 gicai dis. ma ny of his private circle ; still less his laborious efforts 

 to arrive at the minutiae of correctness. During the past 

 twenty years his correspondence was filled with abstruse 

 notes and queries. He argued out the orthography of 

 inquire v. enquire, the duplication of t in accented and 

 non-accented syllables, the meaning of A*a, as in 

 Diarrhodon (Bia poSo>i>), Diachylum (Sia %tA.o>i/), and 

 Diacurcuma the translation of Myrepsus, the explana- 

 tion of Spagiria and Spagyrist ; the source of Latin and 

 Greek quotations the correct interpretation of an un- 

 advisedly selected motto, Habenda ratio valetudinis, 

 and the term pharmacist, which at length he determined 

 to adopt. Now, when it is recollected that his social 

 position, his connection with pharmacy, his place as a 

 scientific man, and his delight in travel, brought him 

 into familiar contact with various classes of society, and 

 that from all he diligently gleaned information, we may 

 understand the wealth of his acquired stores of know- 

 ledge ; all of which, together with what he learnt from 

 books, were devoted to rendering more full, accurate, 

 and reliable the results of his own investigations. This 

 is a specimen how he answered a casual note connected 

 with Materia Medica : 



" If I were living at Shanghai I would certainly use my best 

 endeavours to obtain the plants which yield good Chinese 

 rhubarb, notwithstanding the fact that all persons who have 



