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

  • Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.
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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    in the Pharmacy, posted the ledgers, and was not unmindful that physicians' prescriptions should be ac- curately dispensed. Eeport speaks also of his care in buying, and that his judgment was infallible in recognizing specimens we know from experience. In this department of know- ledge he may fairly be classed with Guibourt. In the year 1844 he entered as a student in the 'J: Laboratory at Bloomsbury Square, and was elected the Phar- a member of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1857. Society. Throughout his life he was engaged in promoting its prosperity, both in private and in an official capacity— though never on its Council—and he was a member of the Phytological Club (1852), of which Professor Bentley was President, and which was intended to foster a love of Botany among the juniors and the students. The commencement of his business life (1841) is coincident with the first publication of the Transactions of the Pharmaceutical meetings, to which he became a regular contributor. His Papers, many in number and Papers, invariably of the same character, date from January 1850, and as in his person, dress, and manner, there was no visible change between the opening of the Great Exhibition and the time of his decease, so this com- munication on Turnsole or Tournesol, though short, is constructed on the same framework as the Pharmaco- graphia: it contains the same marshalling of facts and dates, the same citation of authorities, the same micro- scopic carefulness, while the last sentence might have been written yesterday :—• In conclusion, it may be observed as a curious fact, that although fornier]y in general demand, turnsole rags appear to