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BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF BEITISH AND IRISH 

 BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 314.) 



Swinhoe, Robert (1836 ?-1877) : b. 1836 ? ; d. London, 28th Oct. 

 1877. Consul at Formosa and Ning-po : at Amoy, 1861. F.R.S. 

 Ornithologist, &c. « List of Plants from Formosa,' 1863. Chinese 

 Plants at Kew. R. S. C. v. 898 ; viii. 1048 ; Journ. Bot. 1878, 96. 

 Eubus Swinhoei Hance. 



Switzer, Stephen (1665 or 1682-1745): b. Hyde, near Win- 

 chester, circ. 1665, or East Stretton, Mitcheldever, Feb. 1682; 

 d. 1745. Gardener under Loudon and Wise at Blenheim, 

 1706; with Lord Orrery, 1724-31. Had gardens on Millbank 

 and near Vauxhall, and a shop in Westminster Hall. Visited 

 France. ' Ichnographia,' 1718. ' Cythisus of the Ancients,' 

 1731. Pritz. 310; Cott. Gard. vi. 93; xiii. 53; Felton, 45; 

 Donaldson, Agric. Biog. 44. 



Sykes, William Henry (1790-1872): b. 25th Jan. 1790; d. 

 London, 16th June, 1872. Lieut.-Col. Bombay Nat. Infantry. 

 Zoologist, &c. F.R.S. , 1834. In India from youth until 1831. 

 M. P., Aberdeen, 1857. Lord Rector, Aberdeen, 1854-5. Chair- 

 man, H.E.I.C, 1856. Collected in Bombay. Pritz. 310; 

 Proc. Royal Soc. 1871-72, xxxiii. ; R. S. C. v. 899 ; ' Biog. 

 Notices,' 1857, with portr. inserted in Brit. Mus. copy. Sykesia 

 Am. 



Syme, John Thomas Irvine [See Boswell] . 



Symons, Rev. Jelinger (1778-1853): b. Low Leyton, Essex, 

 1778; d. Radnage, Bucks, 20th May, 1851; bur. Radnage. 

 M.A., Cambridge, 1797. F.L.S. , 1798. Curate at Whitburn, 

 Durham. Rector of Radnage, 1833-51. ' Synopsis plantarum 

 insulis Britannicis,' 1798. Sent list of Durham plants to Winch 

 (Winch, Bot. Guide, ii. pref.). Pritz. 310; Jacks. 233; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 192. 



Sympson, Alexander (fl. 1699). Surgeon. Sent Gallipoli plants 

 to Petiver. 



Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800-1877) : b. Melbury, Dorset, 

 11th Feb. 1800; d. Lacock Abbey, Dorset, 17th Sept. 1877; 

 bur. Lacock Cemetery. Nephew of Earl of Ilchester. Dis- 

 coverer of photography. M.A., Camb.,1821. LL.D. F.L.S., 

 1829. F.R.S. Collected in Ionian Isles, 1826. Correspondent 

 of Smith and W. J. Hooker. Smith Lett. ii. 293 ; ' Athenaeum, ' 

 1877, ii. 406 ; Trans. Soc. Biblic. Archaeol. vi. 1879, pt. ii. 



Tate, George (1802-1866) : b. Alnwick, 21st May, 1805 ; d. same 

 place, 7th June, 1866. ' Fossil Flora of Eastern Borders,' in 

 Johnston's Bot. of East. Bord. pp. 289-317. R. S. C. v. 915 ; 

 Proc. Berwicksh. Field Club, vi. 269. 



Tate, George Ralph (1835-1874): b. Alnwick, 27th March, 

 1835 ; d. Fareham, Hants, 23rd Sept. 1874. M.D., Edinburgh. 



