812 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



pupil of Linnaeus. Came to England, 1760, as Under-librarian, 

 Brit. Mus. Accompanied Banks on Cook's first voyage, 1768- 

 1771, and to Iceland, 1772. Librarian to Banks. Edited Ellis's 

 'Hist. Zoophytes,' 1786. MSS. in Bot. Dept., Mus. Brit. 

 Pult. ii. 350 ; Chalmers ; Linn. Letters, ii. 1 ; Woolls, Bot. 

 Discov. Austral. 8. Oil portr. and medallion at Linn. Soc. 

 Two Wedgwood medallions. Engr. by J. Newton, 1784, after 

 J. Sowerby. Litho. from oil portr. at Linn. Soc. ; at Kew. 

 Solandra L. = Hydrocotyle. Solandra L. fil. 



Sole, William (1739 ?-1802) : b. 1739 ? ; d. Bath, 7th Feb. 1802. 

 Of Bath. Druggist. A.L.S., 1788. 'Mentha Britannicse,' 

 1798. MS. 'Flora Bathonica,' 1782. Pritz. 300; Jacks. 238; 

 Gent. Mag. 1802, i. 274 ; Phyt. iii. 581. Solea Spr. 



Solly, Edward (1820 ?-1886) : b. 1820 ? ; d. Sutton, Surrey, 2nd 

 April, 1886. F.L.S., 1842. F.K.S., 1843. Prof. Chemistry, 

 Koyal Hort. Soc. Brother-in-law of Boyle. ' Veg. Physiology 

 based upon Electricity,' 1847. Jacks. 607 ; E. S. C. v. 745-6 ; 

 'Athenauun,' 1886, i. 489. 



Solly, Richard Horsman (1778-1858) : b. London, 29th April, 

 1778; d. London, 31st March, 1858. F.K.S. F.L.S., 1826. 

 Studied Vegetable Physiology and Anatomy. Bot. Keg. 1. 1466; 

 R. S. C. v. 746. Sollya Lindl. 



Somerset, Mary (nee Capel), Duchess of Beaufort (1630?- 

 1714) : b. 1630 ? ; d. Badminton, Gloucestersh., 7th Jan. 1714; 

 bur. Badminton. Previously Lady Beauchamp. Had a botanic 

 garden at Badminton, Bich. Corr. 33 ; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 61; 

 Plants in Herb. Sloane. Beauj'ortia B. Br. 



Sommerville, Thomas (1783 ?-1810): d. Edinburgh, 17th March, 

 1810. Superintendent, Bot. Gard., Edinburgh. Mem. Wern. 

 Soc. i. 246. 



Southby, Anthony (olim Gapper), (fi. 1835-1842). Of Bridge- 

 water. M.D. Sent catalogue of Somerset and Wilts plants 

 to Watson, N. B. G. 27. Top. Bot. ed. 2, 556; R. S. C. 

 v. 762. 



Sowerby, Charles Edward (1795-1842) : b. London, 1795 ; d. 

 London, 7th May, 1842. A.L.S., 1827. Third son of James 

 Sowerby. Superintended small edition of Eng. Bot. Contrib. 

 to Eng. Bot. 2446. Pritz. 301 ; Jacks. 235 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 i. 149. 



Sowerby, George Brettingham (1788-1854): b. Lambeth, 1788 ; 

 d. 26th July, 1854. F.L.S., 1811. Second son of James 

 Sowerby. Conchologist and muscologist. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 

 (1304, 1710, 1866, 1939). Gent. Mag. 1854, ii. 406; 'Athen- 

 aeum,' 1854, 971 ; Allibone. 



Sowerby, James (1757-1822) : b. London, 21st March, 1757 ; d. 

 Lambeth, 25th Oct. 1822. Botanical Artist. A.L.S., 1788. 

 F.L.S., 1793. 'Botanical Drawing-book,' 1789. 'English 

 Botany,' with Smith, 1790-1814. 'Brit. Fungi,' 1797-1809. 

 'Exotic Botany,' 1804-5. Eng. Bot. 103, 317; Pritz. 301; 

 Jacks. 608; R. S. C. v. 765; Gent. Mag. 1822, ii. 568; Cott. 

 Gard. v. 29. Engr. portr. at Linn. Soc. tiowerbcea Sm. 



