Notebook containing notes on materia medica

Notebook containing notes on materia medica, with copy letters to various correspondents on the same subject. Correspondents include N.J.B.G. Guibourt (1790–1867), French pharmacist, J.E. Planchon (1823–1888), French pharmacologist and botanist, Theodoro Peckolt (1822–1912), Brazilian botanist, Richard Spruce (1817–1893), botanist and traveller, Thomas Anderson (1832–1870), botanist at Calcutta, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), British consul at Bangkok, Sir Henry Barkly (1815–1898), governor of Mauritius, Robert Lambert Playfair (1828–1899), author and colonial administrator, Lestock Wilson Stewart (1824–1876), surgeon in Madras, Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886), botanist in Hong Kong, Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911), botanist in India, and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon. With various press cuttings of general interest and manuscript notes pasted in. Index.

May 1863 - July 1866

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 230 x 185 mm., 182 ff. (original pagination 1-354 and unnumbered). Half calf binding, with brown buckram-covered boards and marbled end leaves and edges. Front board labelled in brown leather and gilt 'N.B.8'. 3 loose enclosures inside front cover.

Deposited on indefinite loan by GlaxoSmithKline plc, via Lorraine Day, assistant company secretary, 2004