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Obituary. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Phann. 
\      May,  1882. 
minster  Abbey,  London,  April  26th.  He  was  born  at  Shrewsbury,  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1809,  and  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh  and  at 
Cambridge.  From  1831  to  1836  he  accompanied,  as  naturalist,  the  survey- 
ing expedition  of  the  ship  Beagle,  and"  subsequently  published  several 
works  on  the  results  of  his  observations.  But  the  one  which  was  destined 
to  attract  universal  attention,  and  to  be  the  forerunner  of  a  large  class  of 
scientific  literature  on  the  philosophical  system  which  has  since  been 
termed  "  Darwinism,"  was  the  one  published  in  1859  under  the  title  "  On 
the  Origin  of  Species  by  means  of  Natural  Selection,  or  the  Preservation 
of  Favored  Races  in  the  Struggle  of  Life,"  and  which  was  followed  by 
others,  notably,  in  1871,  by  "  The  Descent  of  Man  and  Selection  in  Rela- 
tion to  Sex."  Progressive  organic  development,  or  evolution,  as  it  is  now 
termed,  is  an  ancient  philosophical  idea,  which  at  the  beginning  of  the 
present  century  was  more  clearly  formulated  by  Lamarck,  but  extended 
by  Darwin,  and  supported  with  great  ingenuity  by  the  results  obtained 
from  long  years  of  patient  observation  and  of  experimental  inquiries,  the 
details  of  which  results  are  embodied  in  his  later  works. 
Daniel  Bell  Hanbury  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son  Thomas,  at  Men- 
tone,  on  Feb.  12th  last,  a  few  days  after  having  completed  the  eighty-eighth 
year  of  iiis  life.  He  was  born  Feb.  8,  1794,  and  was  the  son  of  Capel  Han- 
bury and  his  wife,  Charlotte  Bell.  He  was  educated  at  a  private  school  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  entered  the  pharmaceu- 
tical business  at  Plough  Court,  London,  carried  on  by  his  uncle  William 
Allen,  whose  partner  he  afterwards  became.  In  1824  he  married  Rachel 
Christy,  who  died  in  1876,  and  by  whom  he  had  five  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter, all  of  whom  survive  him  excej^t  the  eldest  son,  the  lamented  Daniel 
Hanbury,  who  died  in  1875. 
In  1841,  at  the  invitation  of  Jacob  Bell,  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
organization  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  serving  as 
a  member  of  the  Council  from  the  first,  and  as  treasurer  from  1852  to  1867, 
when  he  resigned.    In  1868  he  retired  from  business. 
An  obituary  notice  of  the  deceased  in  the  "  Chemist  and  Druggist"  for 
March  closes  with  the  following  remarks,  which  are  also  applicable  to 
several  of  the  older  sections  of  the  United  States : 
"A  glance  round  the  noted  chemists' businesses  which  date  from  the 
early  part  of  this  century  shows  a  very  large  proportion  which  were  estab- 
lished and  conducted  by  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  The  fact 
that  men  of  that  class  have  had  a  genius  for  making  pharmacy  a  success 
carries  its  lesson  on  the  surface,  and  it  may  be  thought  of  sometimes  now- 
a-days.  Patience  through  the  days  of  small  things,  and  the  strictest  integ- 
rity in  all  circumstances,  have  been  the  characteristics  which  have  won 
for  them  so  enduring  a  share  of  public  confidence.  They  have  not  been 
men  who  ground  their  lives  away  in  the  determination  to  make  a  busi- 
ness ;  far  from  that.  A  dozen  names  will  suggest  themselves  of  Quaker 
druggists  who  have  been  at  least  as  noted  in  the  philanthropic  as  in  the 
pharmaceutical  world.  Our  age  needs  more  of  their  old  faith  in  principle- 
applied  to  every-day  business,  which  alone  has  insured  enduring  success,, 
or,  if  not,  can  at  least  make  failure  honorable." 
