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Obituaries. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
\      May,  1875. 
Fift/i  and  Sixth  Annual  Reports  of  the  State  Salt  Inspector  of  the  State  of  Michigan^  for 
the  fiscal  years  ending  No-Tjember  '>,oth^  1%  J and  iZ-j/^..  East  Saginaw  :  1875.  ^vo, 
pp.  24. 
Besides  the  official  reports,  the  pamphlet  contains  a  paper  giving  a  sketch  of  the 
salt  industry,  together  with  an  account  of  the  uses  of  salt  for  curing  hams,  maJcing 
cheese  and  butter  and  as  a  fertilizer.  We  learn  that  the  first  salt  blocks  in  Mich- 
igan were  opened  July  4th,  i860.  During  the  folio wmg  year  125,000  barrels  were 
made,  and  the  number  has  steadily  increased  until,  in  1874,  reached  1,026,979 
barrels — a  very  gratifying  result,  particularly  if  taken  in  connection  with  the  fact, 
that  the  Inferior  grade  (second  quality  salt)  is  decreasing  in  amount.  For  the  de- 
velopment of  this  industry,  we  presume,  Michigan  is,  to  a  considerable  extent,  in- 
debted to  the  efficient  State  Salt  Inspector,  Dr.  S.  S.  Garrigues. 
OBITUARIES. 
Daniel  Hanbury  is  no  more.  As  one  of  the  most  learned  pharmacists  of  the 
present  time,  and  one  of  the  most  thorough  and  indefatigable  investigators  of  Mate- 
ria Medica,  his  name  will  long  be  remembered,  and  his  researches  be  as  highly  val- 
ued in  the  future  as  they  are  at  present.  Many  of  his  classical  essays  have  been, 
republished  in  this  Journal,  and  his  last,  which  is  embraced  in  a  paper  communi- 
cated to  the  editor  with  a  letter  written  a  few  days  before  his  last  illness,  will  be^ 
found  in  the  present  number.  Among  the  numerous  societies  of  which  he  had  been 
elected  an  honorary  member,  may  be  mentioned  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation, and  the  Massachusetts,  New  York,  Philadelphia  and  Chicago  Colleges  of 
Pharmacy. 
The  following  biographical  notice  is  taken  from  the  London  Pharmaceutical 
Journal,"  April  3d  : 
"Daniel  Hanbury  was  born  iith  September,  1825.  He  was  the  eldest  child  of 
Daniel  Bell  Hanbury,  who  for  many  years  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Council  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and  for  eleven  years  its  Treasurer.  In  early  life  he 
showed  superior  ability  At  school  he  always  maintained  a  foremost  place,  and 
attained  a  considerable  degree  of  proficiency  in  classical  studies,  and  also  in  water- 
color  drawing. 
"In  the  year  1841  he  commenced  his  business  training  under  the  firm  of  Allen,. 
Hanbury  &  Barry,  of  which  his  father  was  an  active  member.  Here  his  peculiar 
abilities  were  speedily  manifested  and  appreciated. 
"  His  innate  love  of  precision  and  accuracy  were  stimulated  by  the  example  and 
influence  of  Mr.  Barry;  he  became  an  exquisitely  neat  experimenter,  and  his  hand- 
writing assumed  the  form  which  those  familiar  with  it  will  never  forget,  combining 
in  a  singular  degree,  firmness,  force  of  character,  and  complete  accuracy  of  detail. 
Whatever  he  undertook  was  done  with  uncompromising  thoroughness.  He  never 
spared  himself  any  labor,  nor  sought  the  notice  of  those  around  him  by  talking  of 
any  effort  he  had  made,  but  quietly  brought  his  fine  abilities  to  bear  with  painstaking 
conscientiousness  on  the  one  matter  immediately  before  him,  whether  dispensing  a 
prescription,  posting  an  account  book,  or  writing  a  scientific  paper.  With  such 
qualities  he  not  only  accomplished  a  very  large  amount  of  work,  but  the  quality  of 
what  he  did  was  almost  faultless. 
"In  the  year  1844  he  studied  at  the  laboratory  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
"  His  pursuits  early  brought  him  in  contact  with  the  late  Dr.  Pereira,  who  treated 
him  with  great  consideration,  and  a  warm  friendship  sprang  up  between  the  professor 
and  his  pupil,  which  lasted  till  the  death  of  the  former,  and  the  remembrance  of 
which  has  since  often  been  manifested  by  Mrs.  Pereira.  His  first  contribution  to 
this  Journal  was,  we  believe,  on  *  Turnsole,""  in  January,  1850.  From  that  time  to 
the  present  his  papers  are  scattered  thickly  through  our  volumes,  numbering,  accord- 
ing to  the  index,  sixty-one,  the  last  being  incorporated  in  an  article  entitled  *  Cin- 
chona or  Chinchona,'  published  on  the  13th  of  February,  in  the  present  year. 
