BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



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Neill, Patrick (1776-1851) : b. Edinburgh, 1776 ; d. Canonmills, 

 Edinburgh, 3rd Sept. 1851 ; bur. Warriston Cemetery, Edin- 

 burgh. LL.D., Edinb. A.L.S., 1807. F.L.S.,1813. F.B.S.Ed. 

 First Vice-Pres.Bot.Soc, Ed., 1836. Printer. Correspondent of 

 Cuvier. Article, ' Fuci,' in Edinb. Encyclop. Friend of George 

 Don. Collected Scotch plants. Secretary, Wernerian Society. 

 Gard. Chron. 1851, 567, 663; Cott. Gard. vii. 121; Greville, 

 'Alga3 Brit.' iv. ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 191; Banksian Corresp. 

 xii. (Mar. 12, 1801). Neillia D. Don. 



Nelson, David (d. 1789) : d. Timor, 20th July, 1789. Kew 

 gardener. Assistant on Cook's 3rd voyage, 1776-1780. On 

 H.M.S. 'Bounty,' 1787. Australian, Cape, and Timor plants 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fl. Tasmania, cxiii. ; Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 ii. 267 ; Brown, Prodr. 481. Nelsonia Br. 



New, Rev. Charles (d. 1875). Methodist Missionary in Africa 

 for many years. Collected on Kilima'Njaro, 1871. Journ. 

 Bot. 1872, 235 ; 1875, 160 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 141. Plants 

 at Kew. HeUchrysum Neivii Oliv. & Hiern. 



Newbould, Rev. William Williamson (1819-1886) : b. Sheffield, 

 20th Jan. 1819 ; d. Kew, 16th April, 1886 ; bur. Fulham Ceme- 

 tery. B.A., Cantab., 1842. M.A., Cantab., 1845. F.L.S., 

 1863. F.B.S.Ed., 1841. Orig. Member Bay Soc. Curate at 

 Bluntisham, Hunts, 1845 ; at Comberton, Cambs., 1848. In 

 Scotland, 1845; in Ireland, 1852, 1858; in N. Wales, with 

 J. Gay and Babington, 1862. Intimate friend of C. C. Babing- 

 ton and H. C. Watson. MSS. in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. 

 E. S. C. viii. 493; Top. Bot. 551; Journ. Bot., with portr., 

 1886, 161 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1885-86, 145. Newbouldia Seem. 



Newman, Edward (1801-1876) : b. Hampstead, 13th May, 1801 ; 

 d. Peckham, Surrey, 12th June, 1876 ; bur. Nunhead. Printer 

 and publisher, pteridologist and entomologist. F.L.S., 1833. 

 Lived at Godalming, 1817-1826. Contributed to Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, from 1831. In Ireland, 1839. 'History of Brit. Ferns,' 

 1840 ; ed. iv. 1865 (illustrated by himself). Edited ' Phytologist,' 

 1841-1854. ' Letters of Busticus,' 1849. Pritz. 232 ; Jacks. 

 586 ; E. S. C. iv. 600 ; viii. 494 ; Memoir, with portr., 1876 ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1876, 223 ; Gard. Chron. 1876, i. 823 ; Zoologist, 

 1876, pref., with portr. 



Newton, James (1611 ?-1689 ?) : b. 1611?; d. 1689 ? M.D. 

 1 Enchiridion ' (fragment), 1689. ' Herbal ' (ed. by his son), 

 1752 ; ed. 6, 1802 ; begun, 1680. Friend of Eay, Hermann, and 

 Commelin. " Stirpium Britannicarum explorator indefessus," 

 Pluk. Aim. 200. Botanized in Scotland, Kent, Westmoreland, 

 Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, and Wales. Plants collected in 

 Great Britain, Ireland, and Holland, Herb. Sloane, 205-207, 

 236-239. Phil. Trans, xx. 263; Pref. to Herbal; MS. notes in 

 copy of Parkinson's ' Theatrum ' in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus.; 

 Pritz. 232; Jacks. 586; Fl. Midd. 389. Portr. prefixed to 

 Herbal. 



Newton, John (fl. 1640). Surgeon. Of Colliton, Somerset. 

 Brought plants from America to Parkinson (Theatrum, 596). 



