36 MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. 



Library at not many, but well selected. There were the whole series 

 of botanical works, such as might have been expected ill 

 the library of any worshipper of Linneus, and numerous 

 presentation copies of standard treatises, as was also 

 natural. There were rare editions of celebrated authors, 

 some of great value ; a few specimens of the art of print- 

 ing. There were Latin volumes of travel, and the nar- 

 ratives of the early Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish 

 explorers. The classics French, German, and Italian 

 literature were included ; while pamphlets that were 

 either remarkable or unique, were clothed with costly 

 and sometimes curiously devised bindings. These lux- 

 urious clothings were bestowed on single, not on collected 

 tractates. And there stood the well-read and constantly 

 exhibited work of his friend Colonel Yule, " The Travels 

 of Marco Polo," which was seldom in his library, and 

 was described to admiring visitors with warm praise ; 

 then there were the Latin folios, a fine copy of the 

 " Medicae artis Principes," Matthiolus, Avicenna, Galen, 

 Valerius Cordus, and other ancient worthies ; lastly, 

 School Lexicons and Dictionaries of most elementary 

 character, a few theological disquisitions, and so the 

 total is complete. 

 Mexican An admiring botanical friend, with whom he had long 



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corresponded, but whom he had never seen, bequeathed 

 him his collection of water-colour drawings of the 

 Mexican fungi. These were executed in a superior 

 manner, and went to enrich his store of art illustrations 

 of his favourite studies. Besides, he had in his pos- 

 session a large assortment of photographs and sketches 

 which belonged rather to the portfolio of the traveller 

 than to the pharmacologist, and maps coloured for special 

 purposes. 



