An oration, delivered before the Medico-Botanical Society of London, at the commencement of its ninth session, Tuesday, 28th October, 1828 / by John Frost.

  • John Frost
Date:
1828
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Credit: An oration, delivered before the Medico-Botanical Society of London, at the commencement of its ninth session, Tuesday, 28th October, 1828 / by John Frost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of five and twenty years in South America, has given you two im- portant communications; the one on the properties of Haimarada, or Vandellia Diffusa, and the other on the tree which yields the Cusparia, or Angustura Bark of Commerce, and which has never been before satisfactorily described ; the detail of which, together with an accurate engraving of the plant, will be published in the next part of your Transactions * Sir Henry Willock, K. L. S., His Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires at the Court of Persia, has forwarded an interesting paper on Cichorium Intybus, and is expected to become an active cor- respondent. In respect to your correspondence with other countries, it will be satisfactory to you to know, that the Horticultural Society of Paris has requested, through the Chevalier Soulange Bodin, to correspond with your Society. * Dr. John Hancock is a gentleman of respectable family in the West of England, (Wiveliscombe,) himself a native of Bath, in New Hampshire, North America. Having spent a quarter of a century in the practice of medicine within the Tropics, he has, through his devotion to Medical Botany, and frequent travels amongst the natives, been eminently successful in the discovery of the Indian secrets and vegetable remedies of that “ terra incognita,” the interior of Guiana. This is amply demonstrated by the ex- tensive Herbarium and valuable notes which he has presented to the Medico-Botanical Society; and the mention of this is but a tribute of justice, due on the behalf of the Society to so indefatigable a cultivator of its objects; Palmam qui meruit, ferat.
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