Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a 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 a memoir, by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i Elected Fellow of the Linne<an Society, 1855. IG MEMOIR OF DANIEL HANBURY. bringing all these outsiders into tlie fold ?' ' Well, no,' I would Scay, ' I would admit them willingly if I could, only I cannot bestow on them that privilege which has been already conceded exclusively to others.' ^ We come in due order to that which was to him an unfailing pleasure—his election as Fellow of the Lin- nean Society, which took place in 1855. There he was supremely in his element; intimate with a great number of the Fellows, and held in unreserved respect. The Linnean Society (he says in an explanatory letter to a friend, January 21, 1867) has been a source of much interest and pleasure to myself; and I look back with much satisfaction to the many pleasant hours I have passed within the waUs of its meeting-room and library, as 1 have attended the meetings regularly, and not un- frequently brought to them some of my friends. I have formed a larger acquaintance among the F.L.S. than many who have been longer connected with the Society, •—always an advantage, as tending to give to these gatherings a more social character. He frequently served on its Council; was actively engaged in the alterations which have been effected in the rather sump- tuous arrangements of its library and meeting-room; and held the office of treasurer at the time of his death. An animated correspondence arose between himself and others of the FeUows respecting the best means to be employed in order to render the evening meetings at more useful and more in- He was strongly of opinion that both objects might be effected. Herbarium. It is sinccrcly to be hoped that the Herbarium, to the arrangement of which he devoted many years, as well as his Museum specimens, may be allowed to remain intact. Burlington House at once teresting.