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France and the Mediterranean, during which he formed an extensive 

 acquaintance with men o£ science and foreign institutions, and with the 

 contents of their museums, libraries, botanic gardens, and drug-stores ,* 

 and he contemplated, for the same purpose, a visit to India, which; 

 but for his untimely death, would have been undertaken, for he was a 

 man who never spoke of intentions which he had not predetermined to 

 fulfil. 



Mr. Hanbury was born on September 11, 1825, and was the eldest son 

 of Daniel Bell Hanbury, Esq., of the firm of Allen, Hanburys, and Barry, 

 of Plough Court, Lombard Street, of which firm Daniel was himself a 

 partner till a few years before his death, when he retired to devote him- 

 self to the favourite pursuit of his life. To his other accomplishments 

 he added the skill of a water-colour artist, and his works are distin- 

 guished by accuracy of drawing and truthfulness of colouring. He was 

 familiar with several European languages, was a facile manipulator, 

 distinguished for the completeness of his collections, the perfection of 

 his pharmaceutical museum, and the amount of information embodied in 

 the notes that accompanied his own specimens and those he so liberally 

 distributed to scientific institutions and individuals. He was a member 

 of the Society of Friends, a Fellow and Treasurer of the Linnean Society, 

 in which he took an active interest, and a Fellow of the Chemical Society. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, and was a member 

 of its Council at the date of his death, which took place at Clapham, 

 March 24, 1875, of typhoid fever, supervening on an attack of inflam- 

 mation. 



Gttstay Eose, born on the 18th of March, 1798, was the youngest of 

 the four sons of Valentin Rose, Assessor of the Ober Collegium Medicum 

 at Berlin, and brother of the illustrious chemist, Heinrich Rose. He 

 lost his father early. An excellent mother guided the education of the 

 four sons, whose youth fell in a hard and laborious time. All four 

 brothers served their country in the war of liberation. Gustav, only 

 seventeen years old at the time of the battle of Waterloo, was not in any 

 engagement, but made the long march under arms from Berlin to Orleans. 

 He began life as a mining engineer, but was attacked by an inflammation 

 of the lungs. The scientific pursuits to which he devoted himself during 

 his recovery, as well as the intercourse with his brother Heinrich, induced 

 him to give up his engineering pursuits and to devote himself entirely to 

 science. He went to Stockholm and worked under Berzelius. In 1826 

 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of Mineralogy, and in 1839 

 Ordinary Professor at Berlin, and, after the death of Weiss, Director of 

 the Royal Mineralogical Museum at Berlin. For the sake of making 

 scientific observations he travelled through a wide expanse of country — 

 Scandinavia, England and Scotland, Italy and Sicily, France and Austria. 

 In the year 1829 he travelled with Von Humboldt and Ehrenberg to the 



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