Notebook containing notes on materia medica
- Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.
- Date:
- July 1873 - June 1874
- Reference:
- MS.8366
- Part of:
- Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875), pharmacologist
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Notebook containing notes on materia medica, mainly extracted from relevant historical and contemporary works, with one or two press cuttings and other enclosures pasted in. The extracts are often dated with a note of where the work was read, such as the British Museum, the Linnean Society, the Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal Society, Kew Gardens or the London Institution. There are lengthy extracts of statistics of drug exports from various overseas territories from 1860 onwards, mainly based on Blue Books, consular reports, and other official publications.
Index.
Publication/Creation
July 1873 - June 1874
Physical description
1 volume 1 volume: approx. 235 x 160 mm., 134 ff. (original pagination 1-236 and unnumbered). Half green leather and gilt binding, with green buckram boards, and marbled end leaves and edges. Spine lettered in gilt 'N.B.14'. Paper label inside front cover 'Daniel Hanbury F.R.S. Clapham Common S.W.'
3 loose enclosures inside front cover.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Deposited on indefinite loan by GlaxoSmithKline plc, via Lorraine Day, assistant company secretary, 2004
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Location Status Access Closed stores
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Accession number
- 1051