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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    forty-nine years old when his earthly labours ceased. He was the eldest son of Daniel Bell and Eachel Han- bury ; his parents being both esteemed members of the Society of Friends. He left school early, and his great attainments in languages and in science were due entirely to his own industry. While at school he gained skill in water-colour drawing, an art which, when on his journeys, and specially at Mentone, he practised with assiduity. He had a delicate and graceful touch, and there was a beauty in these sketches which an artist would admire. At the bottom of Plough Court, which till lately was a narrow defile running out of Lombard Street, stands an old historic Pharmacy, whose reputation is insepa- rably connected with the name of William Allen. The philanthropist, though not the originator of the firm, was the first to create its celebrity. With him was associated John Thomas Barry, a man of infinite neat- ness ; exact in chemical experiment; like Wollaston, fond of operating on minute quantities, and habitually trust- ing rather to self-obtained reactions than to information gained from books. The prestige of the former, and the example of the latter, influenced the life and practice of Daniel Hanbury, who at sixteen years of age began practical pharmacy in the well-known City firm of which his father was long the representative. At a much later period, the son was taken int6 partner- ship. The career we are about to trace upset the theory which maintains that the pursuit of science is incom- patible with the discharge of business duties. Daniel Hanbury was a good assistant, though a scholar; and while the chosen correspondent of the learned, he served