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Seller, William (1798-1869) : b. Peterhead, 1798 ; d. Edinburgh ?, 

 11 April, 1869. M.D., Edin., 1821. F.B.S. Ed., 1843, Pres., 

 1857. 'Nutrition of Plants,' Edin. New. Phil. Journ. xxxix. 

 50. ' Plants from Davis' Straits,' Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. ii. 215. 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. x. 203. 



Seward, John (fl. 1794). M.D. Of Worcester. A.L.S., 1796. 

 Discovered Hypericum dubium. E. B. 296. 



Seymer, Henry (1745-1800) : b. Hauford, Dorset, 1745 ; d. 

 3 Dec, 1800. Of Hanford, Dorset. B.C.L. Oxou. 1771. 

 D.C.L. 1777. Friend of Pulteney and Solander. Step-uncle 

 of A. B. Lambert. Had a garden of exotics. Pursh, Fl. Amer. 

 Sept. ii. 737, Nich. Anec. viii. 201. Hutchins' Hist, of Dorset, 

 iv. 66. Oil portr. at Linn. Soc. Seymeria Pursh. 



Sharpe, Daniel (1806-1856) : b. Marylebone, 1806 ; d. London, 

 1856. Geologist. Collected in Portugal. F.G.S., 1827. 

 F.L.S., 1828. Fossil and Portuguese pi. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiii. 1857, xlv. E. B. 2990. 

 R. S. C. v. 672. Engr. portr. in Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus. 



Sharroek, Robert (fl. 1660-1694). Fellow of New Coll., Oxford. 

 ' History of Propagation of Vegetables,' 1660. ' History of 

 Plants,' 1694. Pritz. 296. 



Shaw, George (1751-1813): b. Bierton, Bucks, 10 Dec, 1751; 

 d. British Museum, 22 July, 1813. B.A. Oxon. 1769. M.D., 

 1787. V.P.L.S., 1789. F.R.S., 1789. Deputy Bot. Lecturer 

 to Sibthorp at Oxford, 1786. Assistant Keeper of Nat. Hist. 

 Mus. Brit., 1791. Keeper, 1807. ' Cimelia Physica,' 1796. 

 Wrote descriptions for Freeman's ' Select Specimens of British 

 Plants,' and also some for Eng. Bot. Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 304. 

 Gent. Mag. 1813, ii. 290. 



Shaw, Henry (1800-1889): b. Sheffield, 24 July, 1800; d. St. 

 Louis, Missouri, 25 Aug., 1889. Merchant. Founded Missouri 

 Bot. Garden, 1848 ; established Shaw School of Botany, Wash- 

 ington University : published Engelmann's Botanical Papers, 

 1887. Gard. Chron. viii. (1890), 46. 



Shaw, Rev. Thomas (1693-1751) : b. Kendal, Westmoreland, 

 16U3; d. Oxford, 15 Aug., 1751; bur. Bramley, Hants. 

 B.A. Oxon., 1716. D.D., 1734. F.R.S., 1731. Chaplain at 

 Algiers till 1733. Principal of St. Edmund Hall and Vicar of 

 Bramley, 1740. 'Travels in Barbary,' 1738, w. appendix, 

 enumerating pi., by Dillenius. PI. at Kew, Journ. Bot. 1880, 

 256. Pult. ii. 173; Pritz. 296; Jacks. 346. Forster, Gen. 

 p. 96 ; Nich. Anecd. ii. 287 ; Nich. Illustr. i. 287. Nicholson, 

 ' Annals of Kendal,' 346. Shawia Forst. = Olearia. 



Sheffield, Rev. William (1732 ?-1795) : b. Henley, Warwick, 

 1732?; d. Oxford?, 23 June, 1795. B.A. Oxon., 1754. D.D., 

 1778. Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 1772-1795. Early 

 friend of Banks. ' Botanico Oxoniensi imprimis perito,' Forster, 

 Gen. t. ix. Rees. Nich. Illustr. v. 517. Sheffieldia Forst. 

 — Samolus. 



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