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PIIARMACOG1UPH1A. 



1875. 



Cinchona 



versus 

 CLiiichoiia. 



Friendship 



with 

 Fliukigtr. 



Ctium cum 

 lubore. 



The last paper l of the deceased might be termed polemical, 

 did it not, like everything which came from his pen, keep purely 

 to the point. 



On the other hand, it is not like him that he should turn his 

 attention to Cinchona bark, a theme which Mr. Hanbury habitually 

 avoided. In this case also he only touched it superficially; 

 throwing his influence into the scale in favour of the woid 

 Cinchona, which Mr. Markham wished to see altered to Chin- 

 chona. But even in this apparently so very simple discussion 

 Mr. Hanbury, going back, as he was wont, to the sources of 

 knowledge, adduced new evidence in favour of the view he had 

 taken. 



The researches on individual points, whose quality is made 

 apparent by the above remarks, were finally followed by a com- 

 prehensive volume in which Mr. Hanbury put his best work. His 

 above-mentioned views on frankincense had been the occasion 

 in 1864, of his acquaintance with Dr. Fliickiger, which ripened 

 into an intimate friendship after the first personal meeting in 

 1867. Being occupied henceforth conjointly with the same 

 questions, the thought of making complete and systematizing 

 results occurred to them. This project was comfirmed by the 

 reflection that the English language could offer no work 

 expressing the ideas of the two friends. 



The task was begun, furthered in conversation and by letter, and 

 every effort made to clear up the questions of a scientific and 

 practical nature which arose in unanticipated abundance. 



Mr. Hanbury left the business at Plough Court in 1870, and 

 then lived almost exclusively for this common object. The col- 

 lections and libraries of London, Kew and Paris, the warehouses of 

 the London docks, what the auctions of the drug brokers in the 

 city offered for inspection, all these were repeatedly consulted or 

 ransacked by the two friends together and compared by the aid 

 of their mutual experiences and impressions. Scarcely any expe- 

 dients were overlooked which could have been of much real use. 

 Mr. Hanbury well knew his way about in London, through expe- 

 rience gained long ago, and now he employed all his acuteness 

 1 Pharm. Journal, v. (1875, 13th. Feb.), 646. 



