Notebook containing notes on materia medica, family history, and the history of Plough Court

Notebook containing notes on materia medica, family history, and the history of Plough Court, with copy letters to various correspondents on the same subjects. 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, 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, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), Thomas Thomson (1817–1878), botanist at Calcutta, Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895), surgeon at Madras, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), British consul at Bangkok, and George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon. Index.

January 1857 - August 1858

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 220 x 185 mm., 138 ff. (original pagination 1-264 and unnumbered). Half brown leather and gilt binding, with marbled boards. Front board labelled in brown leather and gilt 'N.B.5'.

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