FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. 19 



Mdllo, of Campinas, Brazil, for whose sake he learned Literary 

 Spanish, till when he had to trust to John Miers for the 

 translation of his epistles. Such aid was not necessary 

 when he received the welcome communications of G. 

 Thuret, of Antibes ; Gustave Planchon, of Paris ; or Leon 

 Soubeiran, of Montpellier. Amongst his cosmopolitan 

 advisers, Moordeen Sheriff, of Madras, with his masterly 

 " Supplement to the Indian Pharmacopoeia " stands pre- 

 eminent ; not forgetting Dr. H. F. Hance, to whom he 

 was largely indebted ; W. G-. Milne, of Old Calabar ; 

 Dr. Beke, famed for his Sinai expedition, or his widow 

 who so courageously seconded her husband's difficult 

 task. 



To these might fairly be added as his intimates the Fellows 

 chief scientific writers in America, and the distinguished Linne/m 

 members of the Linnean Society, notably its late Presi- 

 dent, Mr. George Bentham ; Professor Thiselton Dyer ; 

 and a very near friend indeed, Mr. Frederick Currey, 

 with whom, as with Professor Oliver, he jointly worked, 



It would be unjust to his memory to pass over his 

 friendship with younger men, or that he gladly availed 

 himself of the help of Mr. Broughton and Mr. C. H. 

 Wood in quinology ; or that of Mr. Charles Umney in Qujnoio- 

 laboratory details. Others pharmaceutically connected, 

 indeed, but as well known in the world of science, were 

 the objects of his regard. Such were Henry Bowman 

 Brady, who had attained the same honours, and the two 

 brothers, Henry Groves, of Florence, and T. B. Groves, 

 of Wey mouth. 



How he was associated with Dr. Hooker and John 

 Eliot Howard is as little necessary to state, as to 

 chronicle his uninterrupted intercourse with Professor 

 Fliickiger, of Bern, L. A. Buchner, of Munich, or Professor 



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