Excerpt from The Garden, Vol. 60: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches; Christmas, 1901His distinguished Irishman. From County Derry, was born in 1857, and was educated at Queen's Colleges, Galway and Belfast, graduating m.a. In the Queen's University, Ireland, in i878. He studied medicine at Belfast, but did not enter for the final M.D. Examination, this being prevented by his appointment to China; but in May, 1881, he received the diploma of Edinburgh.Dr. Henry entered the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service in June, 1881, as medical officer and assistant.His first station was at Shanghai, but he was soon transferred to Ichang, where he remained from 1882 to 1889.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.