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Mathematician. Capt. E.N. M.A., Oxen, 1678. LL.D., 1703. 



F.E.S., 1678; Sec, 1713. Savilian Prof. Geometry, 1703. 



Astronomer-Eoyal, 1720. Sent plants from Trinidad to Petiver, 



1700. Mus. Pet. pp. 37, 77, 80 ; Chalmers. 

 Halstead, William (fl. 1702). Major. Brought Carolina plants 



to Petiver, 1702. Mus. Pet. 96 ; Hb. Sloane, 158. 

 Hambrough, Albert John (1820 9-1861) : b. 1820? ; d. London, 



6th June, 1861. Of Steephill Castle, I. of W. F.L.S., 1856. 



F.B.S.E., 1839. Contributed to Bromfield's 'Mora Vectensis.' 



Seaweeds in Venables, ' I. of Wight,' 1860. Phyt. v. 194 ; 



Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. vii. 202 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1862, xc. 



E. S. C. iii. 145. 

 Hamilton, Charles (fl. 1785). Lieutenant. 'Description of 



Mahwah Tree,' Asiatic Eesearches, i. 300. Dryand. iii. 282. 

 Hamilton, Claudius (fl. 1699). Gave Barbadoes plants to Petiver. 



Mus. Pet. no. 674. 

 Hamilton, Francis, nee Buchanan (1762-1829) : b. Branziet, 



Callander, Perth, 15th Feb. 1762 ; d. 15th June, 1829. M.D., 



Edinb., 1783. A.L.S., 1788. F.L.S., 1816. F.E.S. Surgeon 



E. I. C, 1794. Superintendent, Bot. Gard., Calcutta, 1814-15. 



Contributed mosses to Eng. Bot., 1590, &c. Plants at Kew and 



Brit. Mus. Jacks. 383 ; E. S. C. i. 692 ; Lasegue, 138 ; Smith 



Lett. ii. 85 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vii. 186 ; ' Men whom Lidia has 



known,' 1871. Buchanania Sm. = Colehrookea Sm. Buclianania 



Spreng. 

 Hamilton, Rev. James (1814-1867); b. Paisley, N.B., 27th 



Nov. 1814 ; d. Euston Sq., London, 24th Nov. 1867. M.A., 



Glasgow. D.D., Edinb. Pastor of Eegent Sq. Church, 1841. 



F.L.S., 1848. Wrote bot. in Fairbairn's 'Diet, of the Bible.' 



Proc. Linn. Soc. 1867-8, civ. ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. ix. 269 ; 



Vapereau ; ' Men of the Time,' ed. 6. 

 Hamilton, William (fl. 1825-1854). M.B. ' Prodromus pi. 



Indiae occideutalis,' 1825. Contributed to Pharm. Journ. 



Pritz. 134 ; Jacks. 368 ; E. S. C. iii. 147. 

 (To be continued.) 



SHOET NOTES. 



JuNcus Gerakdi Lois. — A pretty little rush, allied to this species, 

 has for some years been under observation. It grows plentifully in 

 a brackish marsh on sand by the Channel shore near Berrow, 

 between Brean and Burnham ; and its interest depends on charac- 

 ters linking it with J. cornpressus Jacq. This summer (1887) I have 

 been enabled to study the latter plant from specimens obtained near 

 Stanton Drew, and having also gathered typical Gerardi on the 

 coast of Dorset, could determine the position of the Berrow rush 

 with some confidence. J. Gerardi is a salt-marsh plant, distinguished 

 by a far- creeping rhizome, panicle rather close, exceeding its 



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