Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cut off, alas ! at the early age of forty-nine years : both were in the fulness and brightness of their powers ; both actively engaged when the last summons came. His very latest work is a review of Markham's Memoir Memoir of of the Countess of Chinchon, to which allusion has oTcun- been already made. His last sentence is as follows: chon' It is now several years since Mr. Markham lifted up his voice against this corruption [the Linnean spelling of the word Cinchona], or, as he terms it in the present work, 'this ill-omened mutilation of the Countess's name but hitherto, it must be confessed, with but small effect. The new spelling has, indeed, been adopted in the official documents of the Indian Government, but it scarcely finds acceptance in a single scientific work on botany or chemistry. There is also a posthumous paper in one of the Camden Society's publications, treating of the accounts of the executors of Richard, Bishop of London, a.d. 1303, and Thomas, Bishop of Exeter, a.d. 1310. We must not forget to mention that he aided in the London lnstitu direction of the affairs of the London Institution, and tion. was at home in its admirable library. The librarian (the late John Cargill Brough) had a host of pleasant and most characteristic recollections to relate respecting him. One was the famous instruction given to a visitor who wished to consult a work : You will find the book up in the gallery; it is the second from the left-hand side from the door, on the bottom shelf. The librarian is a most obliging person, and be sure and ask him for a duster. Those who have ever penetrated to those upper regions will acknowledge the necessity for the advice. The books treasured in his library at Clapham were d 2