OBITUARY. 
heroic ancestors drank in the good old times, when villages on the Garonne were called 
bjr English names, and when fleets of wine-laden ships sailed from Bordeaux to South- 
ampton—--wines which the English loved and drank till they were cut oft from them by 
vile, unphilosophical legislation.” 
Ihe repott contains a large amount of valuable and interesting matter, written in a 
loadable manner, and we recommend its careful perusal to our readers ; the majority of 
w hom, from the nature of their pursuits, are obliged to spend the greater portion of their 
time indoors. 
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WILLIAM FEEEMAN DANIELL, M.D., E.L.S., ETC. 
Ait- have to announce with great regret the death of Dr. Daniell, which took place, 
after a long and painful illness, at Southampton, on the 26th of June last. 
AVe believe that Dr. Daniell was born at Liverpool, in the year 1818, so that he would 
have been forty-seven years of age at hi.s death. In 1841 he became a Member of the 
Lojal College ot Surgeons of Englaud, and shortly afterwards entered the Medical De¬ 
partment ot Her Majesty’s Army. lie then served the whole of his time as Assistant- 
burgeon on the pestilential coast of Western Africa, and obtained his promotion to the 
rank of Staff-Surgeon to Her Majesty’s Eorces on his return to England in 1853. About 
nis petiod he was also elected an Honorary Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Gieat Biitain. He afterw r ards proceeded to the W T est Indies, where he served for some 
y ^ a ^ s ' 1855 be was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1857 a Fellow 
of the amyal College of Surgeons oi England. In I860 he accompanied the “ Expedi- 
tionaij Foice to China, and was present at the taking of Pekin. A short time after 
his letuin to England from China he w r ent to the West Indies, and returned from 
Jamaica in September last, with his constitution completely broken up by the climate and 
by is devotion to scientitic studies ; and, although he rallied to some extent for a short 
period, no hopes were entertained of his ultimate recovery, and be died, as already 
stated, at Southampton in June last. He was buried at Kensal Green on July 3rd. 
In the death of Dr. Daniell the Pharmaceutical Society loses a valued contributor to 
its Journal and Museum, and one who will not be readily replaced. His first contribu¬ 
te 11 . to the Journal was in February, 1850, “On the D’Amba, or Dakka, of Southern 
Africa, „alter winch he contributed papers « On Zea Mays and other Cerealia of Western 
Africa: “Synsepalum dulciferum, or Miraculous Berry of Western Africa“Sanse- 
Vf a Guineensis, or African Hemp:” “Pterocarpus erinaceus, or Kino-tree of West 
Atnca; ^“Katemfe, or the Miraculous Fruit of Soudan;” “Ethiopian, or Monkey 
I epper ; “ Cubeba Clusii of Miquel, the Black Pepper of Western Africa “ Frankin- 
cense-tree of Western Africa “ Ainoma of Western Africa ;” « Eguse Oil, a New Yeo-e- 
table Product from Y/estern Africa;” “ Coelocline polycarpa, the Beberine or Yellow 
Dye lree of Soudan;” “Copals of Western Africa;” “Bed Canella Bark from the 
West Indies; “ African Turmeric;” “The Cascarilla and other Species of Croton of 
the Bahama and West India Islands;” “Kola Nut of Tropical West Africa,” etc. 
inis list, which contains many valuable contributions, is more especially so to us 
as many of the specimens which served as the materials for the papers were afterwards 
presen tat to, and are now preserved in our Museum. The many specimens which Dr. 
1 anieL brought to this country also formed materials for valuable papers by Mr. Ben- 
ne W °j * . Jaitish Museum, and other well-known botanists. 
Dr. Daniell was also a Fellow of the Koyal Geographical Society, and was a contri- 
lutoi to the Journal of that Society, as well as to the Proceedings of other societies, and 
to several periodicals. He was also well acquainted with the native languages of many 
? 1 IC ,v , ilc , an tnbes, and is said to have had some knowledge of Arabic; and in J849 
lie published a volume on the “Medical Topography and Native Diseases of the Gulf 
or the'subject 1 hlS W ° fk 1S hlghly s P oken of b 7 tllose competent of forming an opinion 
^ 10111 j: bo . ab ,°, ve summary of his communications, etc., it may be seen that Dr. Daniell 
was indetatigaule in Ins labours and researches while on service abroad and at home 
and we can only now deeply deplore that one who had not only enlarged the boundaries 
0 b “ euce himself, but had aiso enabled otliers to do the same, has been removed from 
us at such an early age. 
