OBITUAKY NOTICE. 



Allen. 



(Fluckiger.) 



IN the focus of the trade of the world, in the city of London, is 75. 

 is situated in Lombard-street a very peculiar pharmaceutical 

 business, of which the name, " Plough Court " points to times 

 when the plough still traced its furrows, where now roars the 

 mighty surge of the commerce of the globe. 



Many associations are attached to Plough Court; for instance, Plough Court 

 as the eighteenth century drew to a close, an original man. 

 William Allen began to develop there his manifold, practical, 

 philanthropic and scientific activity. His work, accomplished 

 in conjunction with W. H. Pepys, on carbonic acid, mercury 

 and platinum, and his co-operation in Sir Humphrey Davy's 

 electrical researches have found a place in text-books. 



In the outskirts of the giant city, from time immemorial, very 

 extensive spaces have been preserved in all the charm of 

 natural luxuriance. These " commons " surrounded by very 

 pleasant, simpler, or more pretentious country-houses, are indeed 

 common property not only to the inhabitants, but to all who here 

 seek recreation under shady elms, among unchecked brushwood, 

 or on green turf. Only the nearer or more distant scream of 

 the locomotive interrupts the contemplative scene ; railroads 

 themselves, or other regardless intruders, are restrained by the 

 power of the law from attacks on the common, 



Clapham Common is one of these natural gardens in the 

 south-west of London, and Daniel Hanbury divided the larger 

 proportion of the days of his life between Plough Court and the 

 pretty country-house, with its view across the still life of 

 Clapham Common ; as also did his worthy father, Daniel Bell 

 Hanbury, who now survives his son, who was born on the llth 

 of September 1825. 



Between the two poles of practical and scientific attention to 

 pharmacy, and happy in the enjoyment of the investigation of 



Clapham 

 Common. 



