DANIEL HANBURY. 1 



Not long ago we called attention to a most valuable book, 

 the " Pharmacographia, a History of Drugs," by Professor 

 Fliickiger of Strasburg and Daniel Hanbury of London, the 

 first-fruits of much investigation, the precursor, as was hoped, 

 of more extended similar works by the English author. We 

 have now sadly to record the decease of Mr. Hanbury, of 

 enteric typhoid, on the 24th of March, at his residence on 

 Clapham Common, in the fiftieth .year of his age. The obit- 

 uary and biographical notices which have appeared in the 

 London scientific journals and in the Proceedings of the 

 learned societies, as well as loving individual tributes to an 

 endeared memory, have given expression to the loss which has 

 been sustained, and delineated the outlines of a most worthy 

 and winning character. The loss is deplored, personally and 

 scientifically, over wider circles and on this side of the Atlan- 

 tic. The pupil and friend of Pareira and his successor in his 

 line of work, an adept in pharmaceutical knowledge, a keen 

 botanist, and a most assiduous and conscientious investigator, 

 a man of simple and pure tastes, and happily of sufficient 

 means, he had just withdrawn wholly from business in the 

 noted house in which he had an inherited share, so that lie 

 might devote his powers and acquisitions without distraction 

 to the natural history of drugs and useful vegetable products. 

 He had already done much : more than sixty articles were con- 

 tributed by him to a single journal, the editor of which de- 

 clares that "the quality of what he did was almost faultless," 

 that "he never wrote without having original information to 

 impart, and his papers uniformly bear evidence of careful 

 investigation and thorough knowledge." The Transactions 

 and Journal of the Linniean Society (of which he was repeat- 

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