FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. 



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travellers. 



Academie " and through the University of Munich, which latter 1875. 

 appointed Mr. Hanbury honorary M.D. at its Jubilee Festival, 

 Aug. 2, 1872. His modesty never allowed him to make use of 

 this title. 



Owing to the direction which Mr. Hanbury's principal study Travel and 

 took, more and more, travelling seemed of necessity an especial 

 assistance, both the reading of books of travel and personal 

 intercourse with travellers. Among these, Eichard Spruce was 

 a great friend of the deceased ; this explorer of the Amazon and 

 Rio Negro, so highly accomplished both as a botanist and as a 

 linguist, was very much esteemed by Mr. Hanbury, and gave 

 him manifold assistance in his work. 1 A whole circle of fellow- 

 countrymen and foreigners, who had lived in India or China, 

 gave Mr. Hanbury valuable aid in the working out of individual 

 questions, as, for example the gifted editor of Marco Polo, 

 Colonel Yule Dr. Bidie, Dr. Brandis, Dr. Bretschneider, of 

 Pekin, Mr. Broughton, Dr. Cleghoni, Mr. MacTvor, the mission- 

 aries, Dr. Lockhart and Mr. Wylie ; Moordeen Sheriff, Dr. Waring 

 and many others. From men so well informed Mr. Hanbury 

 knew how to obtain for himself the most reliable information, 

 both in conversation and by correspondence. 



He himself travelled in 1860 to Palestine and Smyrna with j our ney to 

 Dr. J. D. Hooker, Director of the Kew Gardens, his especial 

 friend. Gain to pharmacology from these parts appears here 

 and there in his writings. 2 



For some years before his death he loved, sometimes twice in the 

 year, to pass a few weeks at Mortola, near Mentone, on the estate 

 of a brother, and this generally advanced his scientific objects. 



In May, 1872, he collected information on the spot, in 

 Tuscany, Calabria and Sicily, concerning orris, liquorice, manna, mvestl g atl(ms - 

 oil of bergamot, &c., in order to settle certain questions of which 

 the solution is now to be found in the Pharmacographia. 

 Other similar journeys were already planned, when he was 

 attacked by his mortal illness. 



Mr. Hanbury became more and more absorbed in the study of 



1 Comp. Pharmacographia, 642. 



2 1'liarmacographia, 146, 153. 



the Holy 

 Land. 



Personal 



