GB 0120 MSS.5304, 8353-8367 - Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875)

16 volumes

An undated memorandum loosely enclosed in MS.8353, written soon after Daniel Hanbury's death by F[riedrich] A[ugust] F[lückiger], pharmacologist of Berne, and co-author with Hanbury of Pharmacographia , describes the sixteen volumes of this collection as having been recently presented to the Royal Phamaceutical Society by his brother, Thomas Hanbury. How at least fifteen of them later came to be transferred to the custody of Allen & Hanburys and thence into the records of Glaxo is unknown; still more mysterious are the circumstances surrounding the passage of MS.5304 into the library of the Royal Society of Health.

GB 0120 MSS.5304, 8353-8367 1842-1875 Collection (fonds) 16 volumes Hanbury , Daniel , 1825-1875 , pharmacologist

Born, 1825; his father was a partner in Allen and Hanbury's, an old-established Quaker chemist and druggist, Daniel joined the family business in 1841; qualified as a pharmaceutical chemist at the Pharmaceutical Society, 1857; Daniel became devoted to the study of pharmacognosy, or the knowledge of drugs, which at that time meant a close study of their botanical and geographical origins; retired from the family business to concentrate on research, 1870; died, 1875.

Publications: Pharmacographia (1874)

An undated memorandum loosely enclosed in MS.8353, written soon after Daniel Hanbury's death by F[riedrich] A[ugust] F[lückiger], pharmacologist of Berne, and co-author with Hanbury of Pharmacographia , describes the sixteen volumes of this collection as having been recently presented to the Royal Phamaceutical Society by his brother, Thomas Hanbury. How at least fifteen of them later came to be transferred to the custody of Allen & Hanburys and thence into the records of Glaxo is unknown; still more mysterious are the circumstances surrounding the passage of MS.5304 into the library of the Royal Society of Health.

MS.5304 was acquired with the library of the Royal Society of Health, 1984; MSS.8353-8367 were deposited on indefinite loan by GlaxoSmithKline plc, via Lorraine Day, assistant company secretary, 2004.

Notebooks of Daniel Hanbury containing copy out-letters, lecture and research notes and abstracts of published works on materia medica, 1842-1875. Much of this material was generated by Hanbury's interest in exotic drugs, resulting in his magnum opus Pharmacographia. His correspondence was consequently wide-ranging, and included letters to scientific colleagues, commercial contacts and other correspondents in many parts of the world.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Mainly English and French, with some German.

MS.5304 is described in Catalogue of Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (Wellcome Trust, 1999) .

Other papers of Daniel Hanbury survive elsewhere, notably in the Royal Botanic Gardens Library and Archives, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN, and among the records of Allen & Hanburys held by GlaxoSmithKline plc. The Hanbury-Aggs Family Papers at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, include family correspondence of Daniel Hanbury.

These notebooks were consulted by the authors of the two monograph histories of the firm of Allen & Hanburys, Desmond Chapman-Huston and Ernest C. Cripps, Through a City Archway: the story of Allen & Hanburys 1715-1954 (London, John Murray, 1954), and Geoffrey Tweadale, At the sign of the Plough: 275 years of Allen & Hanburys and the British pharmaceutical industry, 1715-1990 (London, John Murray, 1990).

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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MS.5304 was acquired with the library of the Royal Society of Health, 1984; MSS.8353-8367 were deposited on indefinite loan by GlaxoSmithKline plc, via Lorraine Day, assistant company secretary, 2004.

Notebooks of Daniel Hanbury containing copy out-letters, lecture and research notes and abstracts of published works on materia medica, 1842-1875. Much of this material was generated by Hanbury's interest in exotic drugs, resulting in his magnum opus Pharmacographia. His correspondence was consequently wide-ranging, and included letters to scientific colleagues, commercial contacts and other correspondents in many parts of the world.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

• English

• Latin

Mainly English and French, with some German.

Other papers of Daniel Hanbury survive elsewhere, notably in the Royal Botanic Gardens Library and Archives, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN, and among the records of Allen & Hanburys held by GlaxoSmithKline plc. The Hanbury-Aggs Family Papers at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, include family correspondence of Daniel Hanbury.

MS.5304 is described in Catalogue of Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (Wellcome Trust, 1999) .

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English