34 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



Parlatore, the head of the Natural History Museum ; 

 another day he did precisely the same thing that is, 

 was absorbed in his favourite study, and " how well he 

 knew how to set about it can be verified by those who 

 have seen him at work : the methodical, searching ques- 

 tions which he placed to his informant were almost of 

 the nature of a cross-examination, so desirous was he of 

 Order and eliciting the whole history. Nor was his precision con- 

 fined to study, but in the house the servant remarked the 

 methodical way he had in disposing his garments, and 

 could not help exclaiming, in her Piedmontese dialect, 

 'Giusmaria! questo e un Sior per ben!' He was very 

 abstemious at meal times, and could never be persuaded 

 to take more than he thought good for himself under 

 any circumstances." 



Popular His strictly popular work was confined to a paper on 

 " Prices/' in the Almanac of the Chemist and Drug- 

 gist; "Details respecting Frangipani," in Notes and 

 Queries; occasional remarks in the Athenaeum ; a paper 

 (reprinted afterwards) in Ocean Highways, " On the 

 Botanical Origin of Myrrh ; " a note, often quoted, " On 

 the Adulteration of Saffron ;" a paper read before the 

 Phytological Society (1858) "On the Botany of the Col 

 de Lautaret ; " and a sketch read at the Bath Conference 

 (1864), called a " Chemist's Holiday-Jottings in France," 

 in which, inter alia, he describes a visit to the Alps of 

 Dauphiny, and the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse. 

 He did not fail, however, to remark the firs, pines, and 

 turpentine ; nor the larch manna of Brianon, with its 

 peculiar sugar called Melezitose. 



Life of Mr. Hanbury was the author of the " Sketch of the 



Ben. Life of Jacob Bell" which appeared in September 1859. 



Both the biographer and the subject of the memoir were 



