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Sherard, James (1666-1737): b. Bushby, Leicestersh., 1666; 

 d. 12 Feb., 1737 ; bur. Evington, near Leicester. Apothecary. 

 M.D. Oxon., 1731. F.R.C.P., 1732. F.E.S. Younger brother 

 of the following. Employed Dillenius to write ' Hortus Elthani- 

 ensis,' 1732. Hadagarden at Eltham. Pult. ii. 150 ; R. Syn. 

 iii. pref. ; Semple, 44 ; Munk. ii. 127. Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 

 81. Nich. Anecd. iii. 651. Nich. Illustr. i. 403. Druce, Fl. 

 Oxf. 383, 385. 



Sherard, William, nS Sherwood (1659-1728); b. Bushby, 

 Leicestersh., 1659 ; d. London, 12 Aug., 1728 ; bur. at Eltham, 

 Kent. B.C.L. Oxon., 1683. D.C.L., 1694. F.R.S., 1718. 

 Pupil of Tournefort. ' Schola Botanica,' under pseudonym 

 Samuel Wharton, 1689. Visited Cornwall and Jersey, R. Syn. 

 ed. 1, 1690, Appendix. Edited Herman's ' Paradisus Batavus,' 

 1698. Consul at Smyrna, 1703-15. Brought Dillenius to Eng- 

 land. Founded Chair of Bot. at Oxford, and bequeathed library, 

 herbarium of 12,000 species, and MS. 'Pinax' to University. 

 Plants in Hb. Sloane. Pult. ii. 141 ; Rees ; Jacks. 606 ; Rich. 

 Corr. 293; Gorham, 11; Journ. Bot. 1874, 129; Semple, 48; 

 Gent. Mag. lxvi. ; Nich. Illustr. i. 339, &c. ; Druce, Fl. Oxf. 380. 

 Slier ardia L. 



Short, Thomas (d. 1772) : b. Edinburgh ; d. Rotherham, 28 Nov., 

 1772 ; bur. Sheffield Churcb. M.D. Of Sheffield, and, from 

 1762, of Rotheram. ' Explanation of technical words in Bot.,' 

 1731. ' Mediciua Britannica,' 1746. Pritz. 296 ; Jacks. 245 ; 

 Nich. Anecd. i. 451 ; Gent. Mag. lxxvii, lxxviii ; Allibone. 



Shuter, James (d. before 1834). M.D. F.L.S., 1819. Collected 

 about Madras. Wight Prodr. 208. Shuteria Wight. Shutereia 

 Chois. 



Simttleworth, Robert James (1810-1874) : b. Dawlish, Devon, 

 Feb. 1810 ; d. Hyeres, 19th April, 1874. Captain, 1st Regiment, 

 Duke of Lancaster's Own, 1833. F.L.S., 1856. Orig. memb. 

 B.S.Ed. Conchologist and critical botanist. Resided many 

 years at Berne. ' Excursion in the Valais,' Mag. Zool. Bot. 

 1838. Had large herbarium, now in Herb. Brit. Mus. (see 

 Journ. Bot. 1878, 179). Jacks. 158 ; R. S. C. v. 681 ; Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Ed. xii. 203; Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxx. cxxxi. ; 

 Whittle, Hist. Preston, ii. 235 ; Journ. de Conch, xxiii. 92. 

 Shuttleworthia Meisn. = Verbena. 



Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-c. 1712) : b. near Leslie, Fife, 15th 

 April, 1041 ; d. c. 1712. M.D., Leyden, 1661. F.R.C.P., 

 1686. First Prof. Medicine, Univ. Edinb. 1685. Knighted, 

 1682. 'Cat. of PI. in King's Park, Edinb.,' 1684, 'Scotia 

 Iilustrata,' 1684. Pult. ii. 3; Pritz. 296; Jacks. 246; Munk, 

 i. 439; Autobiog., 1833, and in 'Analecta Scotica,' i. 126. 

 SibbalAia L. 



Sibthorp, John (175S-1796) : b. Oxford, 1758 ; d. Bath, 8th Feb. 

 1796; bur. Bath Abbey. M.A., Oxon, 1780. M.D., 1784. 

 Prof. Bot., Oxford, 1783-1795. F.L.S., 1788. F.R.S. Travelled 

 in Greece with Ferdinand Bauer, 1786-87, and in Cyprus, 

 Asia Minor, &c, 1794-95. 'Flora Oxoniensis,' 1794. 'Flora 



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