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SCHOOL AND BUSINESS LIFE. 



1875. nature, the outward and inner life of the deceased passed, and" 



was completed in undisturbed harmony. 



School life. He was placed, but only till his sixteenth year, in a private 

 school in the neighbourhood, at Croydon. The school was by no 

 means a distinguished one, but nevertheless the foundation was 

 laid by this means for a wider culture, to the further finishing 

 and deepening of which Mr. Hanbury set* himself with un- 

 flinching diligence. Large classical and historical acquirements 

 were combined with great skill in drawing in pencil and in 

 water-colours, which he afterwards practised from nature. 



In 1841 he began to be actively engaged in practical pharmacy 

 at Plough Court ; the firm, Allen, Hanbury and Barry still bore 

 the name of William Allen (who died in 1843) besides that of 

 D. Bell Hanbury. Daniel Hanbury was distinguished by such 

 a strikingly developed genius for exactitude and order in their 

 widest sense, that it was not difficult for him to gain a taste for 

 practical pharmacy ; and his performances in the dispensary, as 

 also in the laboratory and in the mercantile department soon 

 found full acknowledgment. 



He carried on his technical studies with the same conscien- 

 tious zeal (especially in a botanical direction) at the institution 

 which had been founded in Bloomsbury Square by the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society. Here he soon drew upon himself the attention 

 Friendship of Jonathan Pereira, the most thorough and learned pharmaco- 

 with Pereiia. logist of his time> who ^ till hig death (j anuary 20, 1853) had 



the strongest affection for his pupil, and exerted an important 

 influence on his scientific course. 



In 1850 Mr. Hanbury began the series of papers of which 

 from time to time more than sixty have appeared in the 

 Pharmaceutical Journal, some also in the publications of the 

 Linnean Society, and a few in the Athenwum and elsewhere. 



If a hero of chivalry be described, it is said significantly, 

 " A man every inch of him." It is similarly appropriate to say 

 of our friend : " Truth, every inch of him." This characteristic, 

 which found expression in his whole being, confronts us with 

 great distinctness even in Daniel Hanbury's first work. In the 

 paper on the oil of Thymus vulgaris he already noted down 



