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 (d. 1779): d. Manchester?, 1779. M.D. Of Manchester. 'Cat. of very curious pi., collected by the late. . . lately deceased, to be sold at his garden near Manchester,' 1779. Pritz. 43; Dict. Nat. Biog. vii. 23.

(1767?-1845): b. Perth?, 1767?; d. near Philadelphia, Penn., 20 Sept., 1845. Nurseryman. Of Perth. Found Menziesia ccerulea. Introduced Swede. Visited America with James McNab in 1834. Gard. Chron. 1845, 755; Loud. Gard. Mag. xii.; London, 'Arboretum,' 182; Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 285.

(1773-1858): b. Montrose, 21 Dec, 1773; d. London, 10 June, 1858; bur. Kensal Green. A.L.S., 1798; F.L.S., 1822; President, 1849-53; F.R.S., 1811; D.C.L. Oxon, 1832; LL.D. Knight "pour le mérite." Naturalist to Flinders' Expedition, 1801-5. Librarian to Banks, 1810, and to the Linn. Soc. First Keeper of Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus., 1827. 'Prodromus Florae Novæ Hollandiæ,' 1810-30. E.B. 1702, 2879. "Botanicorum facile princeps," Humboldt. Pritz. 43; Jacks. 527; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1859, xxv. 1887-8, 54; Baillon, i. 501; E. S. C. i. 660; vii. 279; 'Times' quoted in Cott. Gard. xx. 176; Proc. K. S. ix. 527; Proc. E. Geogr. S. iii. 237; Dict. Nat. Biog. vii. 25. Oil portr. by Pickersgill and bust by Slater at Linn. Soc, bust and portr. at Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., and portr. at Kew. Brunonia Sm.

(fl. 1816-34). Captain, Forfarshire Milltia. F.L.S., 1816. Added notes, &c., to White's 'Selborne,' 1833. Contrib. to Johnston's 'Fl. Berwick-on-Tweed.' Hist. Berwicksh. Field Club, i. 9.

(c. 1720-90): b. Woodstock, Co. Mayo, c. 1720; d. Rushbrook, Co. Mayo, 29 Aug., 1790; bur. Crossboyne. M.D. Leyden, 1743. Curator, Oxford Bot. Gard. In Antigua, 1737. In Jamaica, 1746-55. 'Natural History of Jamaica,' 1756. MS. 'Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniæ' at Linn. Soc. MS. Flora Indiæ Occidentalis. Herbarium purchased by Linnaeus for 8 guineas. Irish pl. in Lambert's herbariimi. Pult. ii. 349; Pritz. 44; Jacks. 370; Linn. Corr. i. 39, 42; ii. 480; Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 31; Baillon, i. 502; Dict. Nat. Biog. vii. 53. Brownæa Jacq.

(d. before 1703). M.D. Sm-geon to H.E.I.C. at Madras. Sent plants to Petiver, Phil. Trans, xx. 313; xxiii. Plants in Sloane Herbarium. Pult. ii. 38, 39, 62; Pritz. 44; Rich. Corr. 76; Linn. Corr. ii. 165; 'Museum Petiverianum,' 43.

(1605-82): b. St. Michael's, Cheapside, London, 19 Oct., 1605; d. Norwich, 19 Oct., 1682; bur. St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich. B.A. Oxon, 1627; M.A., 1629; M.D. Leyden, 1644; M.D. Oxon, 1637; F.R.C.P., 1664. Knighted, 1671. 'The Garden of Cyrus,' 1658. 'Plants ... in Scripture,' &c., in posthumous works. Discovered Suaeda fruticosa (E. Bot. 635). Pritz. 44; Life and Works, ed. Wilkin, 1836; Nich. Illustr. vi. 830; Munk, i. 321; Felton, 94; Cott. Gard, v. 15; Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 296; Dict.