Notebook containing notes on materia medica and botany

Notebook containing notes on materia medica and botany, with copy letters to various correspondents, mainly on the same subjects, including publication of Pharmacographia . Correspondents include Friedrich August Flückiger (1828–1894), Swiss pharmacologist, Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), German specialist on Chinese botany, American pharmacists William Procter (1817–1874) and Edward Robinson Squibb (1819–1900), George King (1840–1909), botanist at Calcutta, William Dymock (1832–1892), professor of materia medica, Bombay, George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1832–1917), Indian colonial official, Thomas Edwin Burton Brown (1833–1911), surgeon at Lahore, Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886), botanist in Hong Kong, George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon, John Kirk (1832–1922), naturalist and political agent, Robert Lambert Playfair (1828–1899), author and colonial administrator, William Munro (1818–1880), army officer and botanist, and Henry Yule (1820–1889), geographer. With various lists of seeds and other specimens distributed to botanical gardens and scientific contacts throughout Europe, including Thomas Hanbury's garden at Mortola on the Italian Riviera. There are several pen and pencil sketches embedded in the contents. Index.

July 1873 - March 1875

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 230 x 185 mm., 178 ff. (original pagination 1-213 and unnumbered); ff. 110v.-178 largely blank. Half calf binding, with grey-green buckram-covered boards and marbled end leaves and edges. Front board stamped in gilt 'N.B.15'. 3 loose enclosures inside front cover.

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