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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Newton, Rev. Thomas (d. 1607): b. Presbury, Cheshire; d. 

 Little Ilford, Esses, May, 1607 ; bur. in Ilford Church. Sur- 

 geon, afterwards schoolmaster and clergyman. Eector of 

 Little Ilford, 1583. Translated < Herball to the Bible, 1587, 

 from Lemnius. Pult. i. 108 ; Wood, Athen. Oxon., ed. Bliss, 

 ii. 5 ; Cooper, Athen. Cantab. 



Nichol, William (1836-1859) : b. Edinburgh, March, 1836 ; d. 

 Alexandria, 7th May, 1859. M.D., 1857. F.B.S.Ed. My- 

 cologist: " added many mosses to the flora of Scotland." Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Edinb. vi. 290. 



Nieholls, Robert (fl. 1745). Apothecary. Of London. Corre- 

 spondent of Blackstone. Herbarium presented to Apothecaries' 

 Company, 1745 ; plants now in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fl. Midd. 

 391 ; Sloane MS. 4054. 



Nicholson, Henry (fl. 1712). M.D., Leyden, 1709. ' Methodus 

 plantarum in hort. Dublin,' 1712. Pritz. 232; Jacks. 251. 



Nicoll, William (fl. 1827-1834). Of Edinburgh. Invented 

 section-cutting of fossil wood in 1827. ' Observations on recent 

 and fossil Coniferaa,' Jameson's Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1834. 

 Fossils in Brit. Mus. A. Geikie, ' Text-book of Geology,' ed. i. 

 94. Nicolia Ung. 



Nid, John (d. c. 1659). Senior Fellow, Trim Coll. Camb. Inti- 

 mate friend of Kay, who preached his funeral sermon. Me- 

 morials of Ray, 11 ; Ray, Cat. pi. circ. Cantab, (pref.). 



Nimmo, Joseph (fl. 1837-1846). Of Bombay. Investigated Flora 

 of Bombay, and sent plants to Wight. Completed Graham's 

 Cat. Bombay Plants (see preface). Journ. Bot. 1841, 300. 

 Nimmoia Wight = Ammonia, part. 



Niven, James (1774 ?-1826) : b. Pennicuik, Edinburgh, 1774?; 

 d. same place, 9th Jan. 1826. Grandfather of the following. 

 Gardener in Edinb. Bot. Gard., at Syon, 1796, to Hibbert, 1798. 

 Collected in S. Africa for Hibbert, 1798-1803, and again for 

 Lee and others, 1803-1812. Gard. Mag. ii. 255; Bot. Rep. 

 t. 193 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 46, 134 ; Lasegue, 447 ; Trans. 

 Hort. Soc. i. 262. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. Nivenia Br. = 

 Paranomus Salisb. 



Niven, James Craig (1828-1881): b. Dublin, 1828; d. Hull, 

 16th Oct. 1881. Son of the following. Asst. Curator at Kew, 

 1852. Curator, Hull Bot. Gard., 1853. Lectured on Bot. 

 at Hull. ' Cat. Herbaceous Plants at Kew,' 1853. Edited 

 Maund's 'Bot. Garden,' 1878. Jacks. 412; Journ. Bot. 1881, 

 352; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. p. 541, with portr. on p. 589; 

 Life and portr., ' Garden,' xx. (1881). 



Niven, Ninian (1799-1879) : b. 1799 ; d. Dublin, 18th Feb. 1879. 

 F.B.S.Ed., 1836. Curator, Glasnevin Bot. Gard., Dublin, 

 1834-1838. ' Companion to the Bot. Gard., Glasnevin,' 1838. 

 Pritz. 233 ; Jacks. 411 ; Gard. Chron. (1879), xi. 277 ; R. S. C. 

 iv. 627. 



Nodder, Frederick Polydore (fl. 1777-1794). Botanic painter 

 to Queen Caroline. Drew and engraved the plates of Martyn's 

 'Flora Rustica.' Drawings in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. 



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