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, T.W.C. Martius, German pharmacist, J.E. Planchon (1823–1888), French pharmacologist and botanist, Natalis Rondot, French specialist on Chinese silks, Professor William Procter (1817–1874), American pharmacist, Sidney H Maltass, of Smyrna, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist, Richard Spruce (1817–1893), botanist and traveller, Thomas Anderson (1832–1870), botanist at Calcutta, Charles Tilstone Beke (1800–1874), traveller and geographer, Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911), botanist in India, Eyre Nicholas Champion de Crespigny (1821–1895), assistant surgeon at Rutnagherry, India, Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895), surgeon at Madras, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), British consul at Bangkok, Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886), botanist in Hong Kong, and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon. With some original letters from various correspondents pasted in or loosely enclosed. There are a few pen sketches of plants towards the end of the volume. Index.

December 1860 - May 1863

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 220 x 185 mm., 180 ff. (original pagination 1-350 and unnumbered). Half red leather binding, with buckram-covered boards and marbled end leaves and edges. Front board labelled in red leather and gilt 'N.B.7'. 4 loose enclosures inside front cover. Pressed botanical specimen at f. 78

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