Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875), pharmacologist

Notebooks containing copy out-letters, lecture and research notes and abstracts of published works on materia medica. Much of this material was generated by Hanbury's interest in exotic drugs, resulting in his magnum opus Pharmacographia. His correspondence was consequently wide-ranging, and included letters to scientific colleagues, commercial contacts and other correspondents in many parts of the world.

June 1842 - March 1875

16 volumes

MSS.8353-8367 previously bore the gsk reference SP 1390

MS.5304 was acquired with the library of the Royal Society of Health, 1984; MSS.8353-8367 were deposited on indefinite loan by GlaxoSmithKline plc, via Lorraine Day, assistant company secretary, 2004

Other papers of Daniel Hanbury survive elsewhere, notably in the Royal Botanic Gardens Library and Archives, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN, and among the records of Allen & Hanburys held by GlaxoSmithKline plc. The Hanbury-Aggs Family Papers at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, include family correspondence of Daniel Hanbury.

MS.5304 is described in Catalogue of Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (Wellcome Trust, 1999)

An undated memorandum loosely enclosed in MS.8353, written soon after Daniel Hanbury's death by F[riedrich] A[ugust] F[lückiger], pharmacologist of Berne, and co-author with Hanbury of Pharmacographia , describes the sixteen volumes of this collection as having been recently presented to the Royal Phamaceutical Society by his brother, Thomas Hanbury. How at least fifteen of them later came to be transferred to the custody of Allen & Hanburys and thence into the records of Glaxo is unknown; still more mysterious are the circumstances surrounding the passage of MS.5304 into the library of the Royal Society of Health.