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made him fast friends all over the world. The simple but delightful 

 hospitality of his house made it almost unique in London society. 

 Men of literary, scientific, artistic, or political distinction met on 

 equal terms as they meet in few other houses : and to dine with 

 John Ball came to be regarded as a pleasure which few would not take 

 some pains not to forego. Wherever he moved, the almost sudden 

 news of his death came as a personal blow to those who knew uhim. 

 All such view with sorrow their inevitable severance from the most 

 loveable of friends. 



W. T. Thisblton Dyer. 



BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OP BRITISH AND IRISH 

 BOTANISTS. 



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



(Continued from p. 343.) 



Martyn, Rev. Thomas (1786 ?-1825) : b. Chelsea, 1736?; d. 

 Pertenhall, Cambridge, 3rd June, 1825. Son of preceding. B.A., 

 Camb.,1756. M.A., 1759. B.D., 1766. F.R.S., 1786. F.L.S., 

 1788. Prof. Bot., Cambridge, 1762. ' Plantae Cantab.,' 1763. 

 'Catal.Hort. Cantab.,' 1771. ' Flora Rustica,' 1792-94. Edited 

 Miller's Dictionary, 1803-1807. Pritz. 207 ; Jacks. 578 ; R. S. C. 

 iv. 270; Gorham; Nich. Anecd. iii. 156; Nich. lUust. v. 752; 

 Gent. Mag. xcv. ii. 85 ; Journ. Hort. xxi. 1876, 76, with portr. 

 Painting by Russel, engr. by Vendramini, 1799, in Thornton's 

 Botany, also engraved by Holl, 1799. Copy at Kew. 



Mason (fl. 1696). Surgeon. Sent plants from Angola to Petiver 

 (Mus! Pet. n. 176). Herb. Sloane, xxxii. pp. 99-118. 



Mason, Rev. Francis (1799-1874) : b. York, 2nd April, 1799; d. 

 Rangoon, Burma, 3rd March, 1874. D.D., Brown University. 

 In United States, 1818-1830. Missionary in Burma from 1830. 

 ' Flora Burmanica,' 1851. Pritz. 207 ; Jacks. 379; R. S. C. iv. 

 276 ; * Story of a working-man's life' (autobiog.), 1870 ; Ripley 

 and Dana, Americ. Cyclop. 



Masson, Francis (1741-1805 or 1806) : b. Aberdeen, Aug. 1741 ; 

 d. Montreal, Dec. 1805, or Jan. 1806. F.L.S. , 1796. Gardener. 

 First collector sent out from Kew. To the Cape, 1772-1773 ; 

 the Canaries and Azores, 1778 ; the Cape and interior, with 

 Thunberg, 1786-1795 ; New York and Montreal, 1798. ' StapeHas 

 novae,' 1796. Rees; Pritz. 208 ; Jacks. 144 ; [R. S. C. iv. 279, 

 but by error]; Journ. Bot. 1884, 114, 144; 1885, 227; 1886, 

 835; Smith Lett. ii. 117, 183; Linn. Letters, ii. 559; Gard. 

 Chron. 1881, ii. 333 ; Cott. Gard. viii. 286 ; Phil. Trans. Ixvi. ; 

 Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 83. Plants and drawings in Bot. Dept., 

 Brit. Mus. Oil portrait at Linn. Soc. Massonia L. 



Masters, J. W. (fl. 1838-1848). Head Gardener, H.E.I.C. Garden, 

 Calcutta, to 1838. * Calcutta Flora,' Agric. Soc. India Trans, 

 vii. (1840); * Flora of Naga Hills,' Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



