Notebook containing notes on materia medica

Notebook containing notes on materia medica, with copy letters to various correspondents on the same subject. Several letters are to William Lockhart (1811–1896), missionary at Shanghai. Others are to James Vaughan (1818–1864), surgeon at Aden, and Wilhelm Mettenheimer, professor of Pharmacognoscy at Giessen. There is a long letter to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812–1882), botanist in Ceylon. There are also several printed notices pasted in of consignments of imported drugs lying at London docks. The contents of the rear of the volume (ff.89v.-135) largely comprise notes on Chinese materia medica, with several Chinese labels pasted in. The loose enclosures include two decorative printed Chinese labels for 'Best Tonquin Musk'. Index.

October 1851 - November 1852

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 225 x 180 mm., 136 ff. (original pagination 1-262 and unnumbered). Half green leather and gilt binding, with marbled boards and edges. Front board labelled '2'. 23 loose enclosures inside front cover.

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