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Home, Edward (d. 1851) : d. Florence, 18th March, 1851. B.C.L., 

 Oxon. F.L.S., 1812. Companion of Josei^h Woods in botanical 

 excursions. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 132. 



Horner, Dr. (fl. 1800). Algologist. Collected in Japan, Corea, &c. 

 Correspondent of Dawson Turner. Fucus Horneri Turn. 



Horsefield, John (d. 1854) : d. Prestwich, Manchester, 6th March, 

 1854. Weaver. Thirty-two years President of Prestwich Bot. 

 Soc. Raised Narcissus hicolor Horsjieldii. Cash, 67. 



Horsefield, William (1816 ?-1883) : b. Besses-o'-the-Barn, Man- 

 chester, 16th April, 1816?; d. same place, 17th Jan. 1883. 

 Postman. President, Prestwich Bot. Soc. Journ. Bot. 1883, 

 192 ; Gard. Chron. 1883, i. 122. 



Horsenell, George (fl. 1696). " Chirurgion in London." Corre- 

 spondent of Bay, E. Syn. ed. 3, 196, 263. Brought plants from 

 Antigua to Plukenet, Pluk. Aim. pp. 155, 240. 



Horsfield, Thomas (1773-1859) : b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 

 12th May, 1773; d. London, 14th July, 1859. M.D. F.L.S., 

 1820. ' PI. Javanicc^ rariores,' 1838. Pritz. 151 ; Jacks. 142 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860, xxv. ; Lasegue, 494; E. S. C. iii. 441. 

 Horsfieldia Willd. = Pyrrhosa. Horsjiehlia DC. 



Hosack, David (1769-1835): b. New York, 31st Aug. 1769; d. 

 New York, 22nd Dec. 1835. M.D., Edinb. F.E.S., 1817. 

 F.L.S., 1797. Prof. Bot., Columbia College, 1795. Pupil of 

 Smith. ' Hortus Elginensis,' 1811. Loudon, Gard. Mag. xii. 

 276 ; Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, xxix. 395. Drcike, Diet. Americ. 

 Biog. HosacJiia Dougl. 



Houstoun, William (1695-1733) : b. Scotland, 1695 : d. Jamaica, 

 July, 1733. M.D., Leyden, 1728 or 1729. F.E.S. Corre- 

 spondent of Miller. Collected in Central America and W. Indies. 

 'Eehquige Houstonian^e,' 1781, with engravings by himself. 

 Phil. Trans, xxxvii. ; Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. iv. 118 ; Hb. 

 Sloane, 146; Pult. ii. 231; Eees; Pritz. 151; Jacks. 111. 

 MSS. and plants in Brit. Mus. Houstonia L. 



Hove, Anthony Pantaleon (fl. 1787-8). M.D. A Pole. Collector 

 employed by Banks and Kew. In India in 1787-88. ' Tours 

 .... in Guzerat, Kattiawar, and the Conkuns, in 1787-88,' pub- 

 hshed by Alexander Gibson for Bombay Gov., 1855. Hovea E. Br. 



How, William (1619-1656) : b. London, 1619 ; d. London, 30th 

 Aug. 1656 ; bur. St. Margaret's, Westminster. Physician. 

 B.A., Oxon, 1641. M.A., 1645. Practised in Laurence Lane 

 and then in Milk Street. ' Phytologia Britannica, 1650. Lobel's 

 ' Illustrationes,' 1655. Pritz. 151 ; Jacks. 561 ; Wood, Athen. 

 Oxon, iii. col. 418. 



Howard, John Eliot (1807-1883) : b. Plaistow, Essex, nth Dec. 

 1807; d. Tottenham, 22nd Nov. 1883; bur. Tottenham Cemetery. 

 Quinologist. F.L.S., 1857. F.E.S. , 1874. ' Nueva Quinologia,' 

 1862. ' Quinology of E. Indies,' 1869. Pritz. 151 ; Jacks. 561 ; 

 E. S.C. in. 450 ; vii. 1023 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-4, 35 ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1883, h. 701 ; Trans. Essex Field Club, iv. 8, with portr. 

 JJoirardia Wedd. 



Howitt, Godfrey (1800-1873) : b. Heanor, Derbyshire, 10th Nov. 

 1800; d. in Australia, 1873. M.D., Edinb. F.B.S., Edinb., 



