BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 875 



Hibernica, &c. MS. 'Catalogue of ... . pi. of Ireland,' 1793- 

 1814, at Eoyal Irish Academy. E. S. C. v. 930 ; Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. i. (1828), 403 ; ii. (1829), 305 ; Stewart & Corry. xvi. ; 

 Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 111. Templetonia Br. 



Thicknesse, Ralph (1719 ?-1790) : b. Bartomley, Cheshire, 1719 ? ; 

 d. Wigan, Lane, 12th Feb. 1790. M.D. B.A., Oxon, 1730. 

 M.A., 1736. ' Treatise on Foreign Vegetables,' 1749. Gent. 

 Mag. 1790, i. 185. 



Thompson, H. T. (fl. 1827). 'Vegetable Physiology' in Libr. 

 Useful Knowledge, 1827. Jacks. 68. 



Thompson, John (fl. 1798). ' Botany Displayed,' 1798. Pritz. 

 315 ; Jacks. 34. 



Thompson, John (fl. 1843). Of Crow Hall Mill, Northumberland. 

 Discovered Carex irrigua in 1843. E. B. Suppl. 2895. 



Thompson, John Vaughan (fl. 1807-1829). Surgeon, 37th 

 Kegt. M.D.? A.L.S., 1807. F.L.S., 1810. Zoologist. 

 'Piper,' Linn. Trans. 1807. 'Cat. of Berwick PI.,' 1807. 

 Collected in Madagascar : plants in Brit. Mus. In Jamaica, 

 1829. Pritz. 315 ; Jacks. 249 ; E. S. C. v. 958. Thompsonia 

 Br. = Deidamia. 



Thompson, Silvanus (1818-1881): b. Liverpool, 20th March, 

 1818; d. Settle, Yorks., 3rd Feb. 1881. Schoolmaster. Con- 

 tributed to ' Pbytologist,' and Baines' ' Flora of Yorkshire.' 

 Herbarium at Melbourne, Australia. Eng. Bot. 2890. 



Thompson, Rev. T. id. 1810): d. Penzance, 1810. Contrib. 

 notes on Daiicus maritimus to Withering' s Bot. Arr. ed. 3, 290. 

 Jones, Bot. Tour, 33. 



Thompson, William (1805-1852). Vice-Pres., Belfast Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Algologist. 'Alga which colours Ballydrain Lake,' Mag. 

 Zool. Bot. v. (1840), 75. Stewart & Corry, xv. ; E. S. C. v. 960 ; 

 Litho. portr. by T. H. Maguire, 1849, at Kew. 



Thomson, Anthony Todd (1778-1819): b. Edinburgh, Jan. 

 1778 : d. Ealing, Middlesex, 3rd July, 1849. M.D., Edinb., 

 1799. F.L.S., 1812. F.E.C.P. First Prof. Mat. Med., Univ. 

 Coll., London, 1828. 'Lectures on Elements of Bot., 1822, 

 Edited Thomson's ' Seasons,' with nat. hist, notes, 1847. Pritz. 

 315 ; Biogr. in Dr. E. A. Parkes' ed. of his ' Treatise of Skin- 

 diseases,' 1850 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 91 ; Pharrn. Journ. ix. 90. 

 Thonisonia Wall. 



Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville (1830-1882) : b. Bonsyde, Lin- 

 lithgow, 5th March, 1830; d. Edinburgh, 10th March, 1882. 

 Zoologist. Knighted, 1876. LL.D., Aberdeen. F.E.S., 1867. 

 F.L.S., 1872. F.B. S.Ed., 1847; Pres., 1871-2. Prof. Bot., 

 Aberdeen, 1851. Chief of 'Challenger' Staff, 1872-4. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1881-2, 67. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. xiv. 278. 



Thomson, George (fl. 1720-1742) : M.D., Aberdeen. L.E.C.P., 

 1742. Practised at Maidstone. ' Virtues of Plants,' 1734. 

 Jacks. 199 ; Munk, ii. 149. 



Thomson, George (1819-1878): b. Balfron, near Glasgow, 26th 

 May, 1819 ; u. Victoria, W. Africa, 14th Dec. 1878. Missionary 

 in W. Africa from 1871. Contrib. to Hemiedy's ' Clydesdale 



