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limits in procuring the literature of all ages and countries, 1875. 

 appertaining to his department of science. 



Mr. Hanbury's was a genuine English nature, but in attaining international 

 his ends he often learnt to enter into foreign ideas, and this was acquirements. 

 not difficult to him. He was certainly more at home among 

 persons of the nearest neighbouring nation, and in their elegant 

 language, than in German science. But he gladly penetrated 

 into German writings, not indeed with facility, but conquering, 

 sometimes amid gay irony, " the endless periods of German 

 profoundness." Carelessness in the orthography of proper 

 names and of geographical and botanical appellations was most 

 distasteful to him, and he acknowledged, commendingly, that 

 this was not a German national vice. For the good side of 

 German character he had an acute eye and just appreciation ; 

 his warm British patriotism, which he never renounced, did not 

 for one moment prevent him from being perfectly just to 

 German culture and to German scientific pharmacy. 



So we on the Continent may justly mourn the much too early 

 loss of this excellent man, to whom a place of honour is due in 

 the history of our science. 



F. A. FLUCKIGEK. 



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