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804. Bust on tomb. Plants in Herb. Sloane, 61, 72, 79, 114, 

 145, 146. Richardia L. ; Richardsonia Kunth. 

 Richardson, Rev. William (1740-1820) : b. Ireland, 1740 ; d. 

 Clonfele, Co. Antrim, 1820. D.D. Agriculturist. Of Moy 

 and Clonfele, ' Useful Grasses,' Trans. Irish Acad, xi. 88 

 (1810). 'Fiorin Grass,' Phil. Mag. 1816, 136. K. S. C. 

 v. 190 ; Donaldson's Agric. Biogr. 108. 



Richardson, Rev. William (d. 1768): b. Ullswater, Cumberland. 

 Rector of Dacre, Cumberland, 1742. Prepared the flora for 

 Hutchinson's ' Hist, of Cumberland.' Baker, Fl. Lake District, 

 9 ; Bot. Guide, 143. 



Richardson, William (1797-1879): b. Hebburn, Northumber- 

 land, 31st Aug., 1797 ; d. Alnwick, 18th April, 1879. Saddler. 

 Of Alnwick. Member of Bot. Exchange Club. Discovered 

 Psamma baltica. Journ. Bot. 1872 21 ; Proc. Berwicksh. Field 

 Club, ix. 184 ; E. S. C. v. 67 (" W. R., jun.") viii. 744. 



Riley, J. (d. 1846) : d. York, 1846. Of Papplewick, near Notting- 

 ham. F.B.S.E. Local Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond. 1843. ' Hybri- 

 dity in ferns,' Proc. Bot. Soc. Lond. 60. ' Catalogue of Ferns, 

 after Sprengel,' 1841. Had a fern herbarium. Phyt. ii. 779 ; 

 Pritz. 264. 



Ritchie, Joseph (d. 1821) : d. Mourzouk, 26th November, 1821. 

 African Traveller. Collected near Tripoli, &c, and made notes 

 on the plants. Appendix to ' Denham and Clapperton's Travels,' 

 209 ; Huish, ' Travels of R. and J. Lander.' Ritchiea Br. 



Ritson, A. (fl. 1832). ' Spring Flowers,' 1832. Jacks. 38. 



Roberts, John (d. before 1843). A.L.S. Miller. Of Norwich, 

 late of Salisbury. Helped Maton with botany of Salisbury. 

 Maton, 'Nat. Hist. Wilts,' 10. 



Roberts, Miss Mary (1789-1864): b. Painswick ?, Gloucester- 

 shire, 1789; d. Brompton, 13th Jan., 1864; bur. Brompton 

 Cemetery. ' Wonders of Veg. Kingdom,' 1822. ' Annals of 

 my Village,' 1831. ' Plants and Animals of America,' 1839. 

 ' Voices from the Woodlands,' 1850. Jacks. 245 ; Friends' 

 Books, ii. 500 ; Allibone. 



Robertson, Archibald (fl. 1822). M.D. Of Edinburgh. « Col- 

 loquia de rebus prajcipuis physiologiae Vegetabilium atque 

 botanices,' 1822. Pritz. 265. 



Robertson, Benjamin (d. 1800). Of Stockwell. Had a bot. 

 garden at Stockwell. Friend of A. H. Ha worth. Haworth, 

 ' Miscellanies,' 190. Robertsonia Haw. = Saxifraga. 



Robertson, John (d. 1865) : b. Perthshire ; d. Glasgow, 24th 

 March, 1865. A. B. S. Ed. 1863. Gardener at Kew and at 

 Kinfauns Castle. Prepared ' Flora of Perthshire ' (unpublished). 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. ed. viii. 337 ; R. S. C. v. 230. 



Robertson, William (fl. 1814). Of Newcastle. Friend of Alder 

 and Hancock. " A very accurate investigator of lichens." 

 E. Bot. 2602. 



Robinson, Anthony (d. before 1814). Surgeon. Of Sunderland. 

 Went to Jamaica. MSS. much used by Lunan in ' Hortus 

 Jamaicensis ' (see ' Notice to subscribers ' and i. 273). 



