CHAPTEK XXVII 
THE JOURNEY TO PALESTINE AND THE WORK OF I860 
In the autumn of 1860, with Daniel Hanbury ^ for his travelHng 
companion, he spent a couple of months in the near East, 
joining Captain Washington, Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, 
in a scientific visit to Syria and Palestine. One of his chief 
objects was to ascend Mt. Lebanon and examine the decadent 
condition of the famous Cedars. This led to his pubHcation, 
two years later, of a paper discussing the whole genus, from 
the cedars of Algeria, of Lebanon and Taurus, to the deodars 
of India, a relationship which had long interested him (Nat. 
Hist. Beview, 1862, pp. 11-18). A paper on ' Three Oaks of 
Palestine ' also was read before the Linnean Society {Trans. 
Lin. Soc, 1862, xxiii. 381-387). Another result of this journey 
was the * masterly sketch ' of the botany of Syria and Palestine, 
pubHshed in Smith's Bible Dictionary in 1863. 
He left Trieste on September 15 for Smyrna and Beyrout, 
arriving on the 25th ; returning from Beyrout on November 5 
and reaching Marseilles, by way of Malta, on the 14th. With 
wars and rumours of wars on every side, the journey promised 
to be more than a httle hazardous ; Italy was still engaged 
in the struggle for Hberation from Austria ; in Syria Moslem 
and Christian were at daggers drawn ; the French as Protectors 
1 Daniel Hanbury (1825-75), F.R.S., was a partner in the firm of Allen 
and Hanbury. His keen interest in botany and pharmacology laid the foun- 
dation of a close friendship with Hooker. He was a member of the Pharma- 
ceutical, Linnean, Chemical, IMicroscopical and Royal Societies. Apart from 
science papers, his chief works were ' Inquiries relating to Pharmacology and 
Economic Botany ' (in the Admiralty Manual of iScientiflc Inquiry) and 
' Pharmacographia,' 1874, written in conjunction with Prof. Fliickiger of 
Strasbure[. 
