SIR ROBERT TALBOR LAST ILLNESS. 513 



in getting together the most reliable information on every subject, 1875. 

 both from a practical and literary point of view, such indeed as 

 was only obtainable among the inexhaustible resources of the 

 metropolis of the world. 



How far this often went, is shown in the case of Sir Eobert will of Sir 

 Talbor, 1 whose will of 1681 had to be referred to (at the Will R'bertTalbor. 

 Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Doctors' Commons) 

 in order to become better acquainted with this singular man, 

 meritorious for having assisted in the introduction of Peruvian 

 bark, but concerning whom the otherwise superabundant 

 literature on Cinchona gives but scanty information. 



Thus, in London and on the Continent, the authors searched 

 and laboured, and at last in 1874 the work was completed. 



The Pharmacographia appeared in October : the testimony of 

 those competent to judge must decide whether the task was 

 rightly undertaken and satisfactorily performed. 



Only five months later, Daniel Hanbury concluded for ever, MOTS 

 at Clapham Common, his unwearying labours. On the 6th of J ' anua 

 March 1875, he was quite suddenly seized with an ominous 

 shivering; violent stomatitis jaundice, and typhoid fever followed. 

 His parents, brothers and sister tended the excellent son and 

 brother (he had renounced wedded happiness), but on the 18th 

 of March hope had already lessened and on the evening of the 

 24th the release came. 



According to his wish he was interred quietly, in the burial- 

 ground of the " Friends," situated not far off, at Wandsworth. 



Like his teacher, Jonathan Pereira, Daniel Hanbury was 

 called away in the midst of full activity, on the threshold of 

 his fiftieth year. 



The attentive observer reads the inner nature of this man in 

 his works, in spite of their always purely objective character and 

 concise form. If in them "every inch is truth' 1 as far as 

 it could be won by any endeavours, so Mr. Hanbury's whole 

 appearance bore the impress of the purest truthfulness. 

 Certainly no ignoble thought ever darkened his soul, and as his 

 writings grasped the kernel of the matter, so in life he showed 



1 Pharmacographia, p. 307, Note 7. 



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