244 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



man," Longstaffe. Drawing of Geaster, Gent. Mag. Feb., 1792. 

 Contrib. to E. Bot. (92, 611, 1290, &c), and lists in Brewster's 

 Stockton and Hutchinson's Durham. B. S. C. v. 243 ; Long- 

 staffe, ' Hist. Darlington,' p. 370 ; H. Ecroyd Smith, ' Annals 

 of Smith of Cautley,' p. 149. 



Robson, Joseph, (d. 1885) : d. Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1885. Of 

 Whitehaven. A.L.S., 1854. Cat. of pi. of Gosforth, Cumber- 

 land. B. S. C. v. 243 ; Fhyt. v. 1854, 1. 



Robson, Stephen (1741-1779) : b. 24 June, 1741 ; d. 16 May, 

 1779. Of Darlington. Correspondent of Curtis. ' British 

 Flora,' 1777. 'Plantre rariores agro Dunelmensi indigent' 

 (privately printed). Bot. Guide, 241. MS. of ' Flora,' letters 

 and herbarium in possession of his grandson, Edward Capper 

 Bobson, of Sunderland. Britz. 266 ; Jacks. 232 ; Longstaffe, 

 ' Hist. Darlington,' p. 370 ; H. Ecroyd Smith, ' Annals of Smith 

 of Cautley,' p. 163. 



Roe, John Septimus (d. 1878) : d. 23 May, 1878. B.N., F.L.S., 

 1828. Surveyor-General, W. Australia, 1848. Travelled in West 

 Australia, 1848-9. Collected in Australia, 1835-6. Sent 

 plants to Hiigel and Hooker. Fl. Tasm. cxxi; Joum. Bot. 

 1854-5 ; B. S. C. v. 251. Roea Hiig. = Spharolobium Benth. 



Roebuck, John (1718-1794): b. Sheffield, 1718; d. 17 July, 

 1794. M.D., Leyden, 1748. Chemist, manufacturer, and 

 iron-master. ' On ripening and filling of corn,' Trans. B. S. E. 

 i. 1788, 17. Hoefer; B. S. C. v. 251. 



Rogers, John (1752-1842): b. Bichmond, Surrey, 10 Feb. 1752; 

 d. Southampton, 9 Nov. 1342 ; bur. All Saints' Burial-ground, 

 Southampton. Gardener in Boyal Gardens, Bichmond. Had 

 a herbarium. Autobiog. w. etched portr. by Frank McFadden, 

 1889. 



Rogers, John (fl. 1818-1846). 'Vegetable remains, Borthleven,' 

 Trans. Geol. Soc. Cornwall,' i. 1818, 236. ? M.A., Oxon. 

 F.L.S., 1833. B. S. C. v. 254. 



Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869) : b. London, 18 Jan., 1779 ; 

 d. West Malvern, 12 Sept., 1869. M.D., Edin., 1798. L.B.C.B., 

 1809. F.K.C.B., 1831. F.B.S., 1814. Sec. B. S., 1827. 

 ' Animal and Vegetable Bhysiology,' Bridgewater Treatise, 1834. 

 Jacks. 69 ; Froc. Boy. Soc. xviii. 38 ; Munk hi. 71. 



Ronalds, Hugh (1759-1833) : b. Brentford, 4 March, 1759, d. 

 Brentford, 18 Nov., 1833. Nurseryman and seedsman. ' Byrus 

 Malus Brentfordiensis,' 1831, illustrated by his daughter Eliza- 

 beth. Formed a herbarium of Kew plants. Gent. Mag. 1834, 

 i. 337; Britz. 268; Loud. Gard. Mag. x. 96. 



Rcoke, Hayman (fl. 1783-99). Major, B.A. Of Whitehaven, 

 Cumberland. Botanical Artist. ' Travels to Arabia Felix,' 

 1783. ' Oaks at Welbeck,' 1790. ' Sherwood Forest,' 1799. 

 Britz. 268 ; Baker, Fl. Lake Distr. 14 ; Allibone. 



Rootsey, Samuel (1788-1855) : b. Colchester, 12 Feb. 1788 ; d. 

 Bristol, 4 Sept., 1855. F.L.S., 1811. Druggist at Bristol, 

 1812. Lectured on Botany at I>ristol and elsewhere. ' Syllabus 

 of Bot. Lectures,' 181s. « On the Medical Plants of Shakespeare.' 



