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Bart., 1786. ' Hints on Vegetation,' 1796. ' Inquiry into . . . 

 Blight,' 1809. Jacks. 67 ; Memoir by Kev. John Sinclair, 1837 ; 

 Gent. Mag. 1836, i. 431 ; Donaldson, Agric. Biog. 



Skeen, James (fl. 1703). Surgeon. Sent plants from Guinea to 

 Petiver, Mus. Pet. 95. 



Skene, David (1735 9-1771): b. Aberdeen, 1735?; d. Aberdeen, 

 Dec. 1771. M.D., Aberdeen. Had a herbarium. Corresponded 

 with Linna?us. Murray, ' Northern Flora,' ix. 



Skepper, Edmund (1825-1867): b. Oulton, Suffolk, 20th Oct. 

 1825 ; d. Bury St. Edmunds, 2nd June, 1867 ; bur. Bury 

 Cemetery. Druggist at Harwich and Bury. ' Flora of Suffolk,' 

 1800. Jacks. 260 ; Hind's ' Fl. Suffolk,' 485. 



Skinner, — . (fl. 1772). " Acutissimus oculatisshnusque Botanicus 

 Oxoniensi," Forst. Gen. p. 58. Skinnera Forst. 



Skinner, George Ure (1804-1867): b. Newcastle, 18th March, 

 1804; d. Aspinwall, Panama, 9th Jan. 1867. F.L.S., 1866. 

 Merchant in Leeds and Guatemala. Collected and grew 

 Orchids. Trans. B. S. Ed. ix. 91 ; Gard. Chron. 1867, 180 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1866-7, xxxviii. Uroskinnera Lindl. 



Skrimshire, William (1766-1830). Entomologist. Of Wisbech. 

 Contrib. to Eng. Bot. (379, 423, 463, 1369). K. S. C. v. 712. 



Sleeman, Sir William Henry (1788-1856) : b. Stratton, Corn- 

 wall, 1788 ; d. at sea on passage from Calcutta, 10th Feb. 

 1856. H.E.I. C. military service, 1808. Major-general, 1855. 

 K.C.B., 1856. 'Age and Flowering of Bamboos,' Trans. Agric. 

 Soc. India, 1839-1842. E. S. C. v. 714 ; Gent. Mag. 1856, 

 ii. 243 ; Allibone. 



Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753) : b. Killileagh, Co. Down, 16th 

 April, 1660; d. Chelsea, 11th Jan. 1753; bur. Chelsea Church- 

 yard. M.D., Orange, 1684; Oxon, 1701. F.K.S., 1685. 

 P.K.S., 1727-1740. F.E.C.P., 1687. P.B.C.P., 1719-1735. 

 Baronet, 1715. For. Memb. Acad. Sci., 1708. Pupil of 

 Tournefort. ' Catalogus PI. Jainaic.,' 1696. 'Nat. Hist, of 

 Jamaica,' 1707-1725. Gave Chelsea Garden to Apothecaries' 

 Company. Herbarium, 240 vols., library, and MSS. in Mus. 

 Brit. Pult. ii. 65; Bees; Pritz. 298; Jacks. 607: Bay Mem. 

 40 ; Nich. Illustr. i. 269 ; Munk, i. 460 ; Literary Mag. 1790, 

 with portr. by Angus ; Faulkner's Chelsea, i. 338, with portr. 

 engr. T. Prescott; Semple, with portr., 26. Statue by Bys- 

 brach in Chelsea Garden. "Wedgwood medallion. Portr. at 

 K.C.P. by T. Murray, engr. Faber, 1728. Portr. by Kneller, 

 1716, engr. Faber, 1729. tiloanea L. 



Smart, John (fl. 1708). Surgeon. Sent Hudson's Bay and 

 Maryland plants to Petiver, Hb. Sloane 159 ; list in his hand- 

 writing in Hb. Sloane, 158. 



Smeathman, Henry M. (1750-1787). Collected in Sierra Leone, 

 Madagascar, and W. Indies. Plants in Brit. Mus. and Herb. 

 DeCandolle. Smeathmannia Br. 



Smee, Alfred (1818-1877): b. Camberwell, London, 18th June, 

 1818; d. Wellington, Croydon, 11th Jan. 1877 ; bur. Bedding- 

 ton. M.K.C.S., 1840. F.B.S. F.L.S., 1875. Surgeon to 



