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, K.F.P. von Martius (1794–1868), German botanist, T.W.C. Martius, German pharmacist, Wilhelm Mettenheimer, German pharmacognoscist, J.E. Planchon (1823–1888), French pharmacologist and botanist, Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), British comsul at Canton, Sidney H Maltass, of Smyrna, Henry Callaway (1817–1890), missionary in Natal, William Freeman Daniell (1818–1865), botanist in Sierra Leone, Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886), botanist in Hong Kong, William Lockhart (1811–1896), missionary at Shanghai, Thomas Thomson (1817–1878), botanist at Calcutta, and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon. Index.

May 1855 - January 1857

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 220 x 185 mm., 147 ff. (original pagination 1-272 and unnumbered). Half red leather and gilt binding, with marbled boards and edges. Front board labelled in red leather and gilt 'N.B.4'. 3 loose enclosures inside front cover.

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