308 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Gneca ' (posth.), 1806-40. Kees ; Pritz. 296 ; Jacks. 606; Pref. 

 to < Fl. Grseca ' ; Druce, Fl. Oxfordsh., 387. Oil portr. at Oxford 

 Garden. 



Sidebotham, Joseph (1824-1885) : b. Apethorne, Hyde, Cheshire, 

 1824; d. Bowdon, Cheshire, 30th May, 1885; bur. Bowdon. 

 Calico-printer, of Manchester. Entomologist, astronomer, and 

 photographer. F.L.S., 1878. Contrib. to Phyfc., 1841. 'PI. 

 in Westmoreland.' One of founders of Manchester Field Nat. 

 Soc. Journ. Bot. 1885, 319 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-86, 107 ; 

 B. S. C. v. 683 ; viii. 948. 



Sidney, Rev. Edwin (fl. 1800-1846). B.A., Camb., 1821. M.A., 

 1825. Bector of Cornard Parva, Suffolk. ' Philosophy of 

 Nutrition in Plants,' 1849. ' Blights of Wheat,' 1846. Jacks. 

 167 ; B. S. C. v. 684 ; Allibone. 



Silliard, Zancke (fl. 1640). Apothecary, Dublin. Sent Drosera 

 anglica to Parkinson, ' Theatr.,' 1053. 



Sim, Robert (c. 1828-1882) : b. Kent, 1828 ? ; d. Foot's Cray, 

 Kent, Sept. 1882. Nurseryman. Knew Brit. Ferns well. 

 ' Catalogue British Ferns and Varieties,' 1863. Gard. Chron. 

 1882, ii. 472. 



Simmonds, Thomas Williams (d. 1804): b. Dartford? Kent; 

 d. Trinidad, 1804. Of Settle. Surgeon. Naturalist to Lord 

 Seaforth, Governor of Barbadoes, 1803. Windsor's ' Flora 

 Cravoniensis,' dedication & viii. B. S. C. v. 700. Simmondsia 

 Nutt. 



Simmonite, William Joseph (fl. 1840-1854). Of Sheffield. 

 ' Medical Botany,' 1848. Jacks'. 202 ; B. S. C. v. 700; Allibone. 



Sims, John (1749-1831): b. Canterbury, 1749; d. Dorking, 

 1831. M.D., Edinb., 1774. F.L.S., 1788. Studied at Leyden, 

 1773-74. Settled in London, 1779. Edited 'Annals of Bot.' 

 with Konig, 1805-6, and 'Bot. Mag.,' vols, xiv.-xlii. Plants in 

 Herb. Kew. Jacks. 606 ; B. S. C. v. 707 ; Gard. Chron. 1887, 

 i. 641. Private etched portr. by Mrs. Dawson Turner. Engr. 

 (medallion) portr., 1817, in Ann. Bot. i. Simsia Br. 



Sinclair, Andrew (d. 1861) : drowned in B. Baugitata, New 

 Zealand, 26th March, 1861. M.D. F.L.S., 1857. Assistant 

 Surgeon, B.N., 1824, on H.M.S. ' Sulphur.' Colonial Sec, 

 New Zealand. Collected in Australia and New Zealand. Plants 

 at Kew. 'Vegetation of Auckland.' B. S. C. v. 707; Journ. 

 Bot. 1851, 212; Gard. Chron. 1861, 773; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1861-2, xcv. Sinclairia Hook. = Liabum. 



Sinclair, George (1786-1834) : b. Mellerstain, Berwicksh., 1786; 

 d. Deptford, 13th March, 1834. Gardener to Duke of Bedford. 

 Seedsman. F.L.S.,1824. 'HortusCantabrigiensis.'ed. 12, 1831. 

 ' Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis,' 1816, ed. 2, 1824 ; ed. 3, 

 1835 ; ed. 4, 1838. Pritz. 298; Jacks. 606; Gard. Mag. x. 192; 

 Donaldson's Agric. Biog. 113. 



Sinclair, Sir John, Bart. (1754-1835) : b. Thurso Castle, Caith- 

 ness, 10th May, 1754 ; d. Edinburgh, 21st Dec. 1835. Statist. 

 President, Board of Agriculture, 1793. F.B.S. F.L.S., 1810. 

 M.P., Caithness, &c, 1780-1811. D.C.L., Glasgow, 1788. 



