872 BTOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



1837. LL.D., Aberd., 1789. Assistant in school at Burford, 



Oxford, 1775. Ordained, 1781. Vicar of Hurley, Berks, 1789; 



Stonesfield, Oxon ; Rector and Mayor of Woodstock. ' Botanical 



Pocket-book,' 1800. * Spelling-book,' 1801. Pritz. 210 ; Jacks. 



35 ; Cott. Gard. viii. 221. 

 [Mawe, Thomas. Gardener to Duke of Leeds. ' Universal 



Gardener and Botanist,' published in his name, but written by 



John Abercrombie, 1778. Johns. Gard. Diet. 220, 222.] 

 Mawson, Thomas William (1850 ?-1876) : b. 1850?; d. Burn- 



ingham, Yorks., 16th Sept. 1876. M.D., Edinb. F.B.S.Ed., 



1869. Went to Surinam. 'Ferns of Derwent,' Trans. Bot. 



Soc. Edinb. xi. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xiii. 10. 

 Maxwell, E. (d. before 1839). Lieut. 11th Dragoons. Collected 



in Kunawur, 1825. Boyle, Illustr. 52. Thalictriim Maxwellii 



Royle. 

 Maxwell, G. (1805 9-1880): b. 1805 ? ; d. King George's Sound, 



1880. Collector of plants and insects in Australia for thirty 



years ; Gard. Chron. 1880, i. 433. Fl. Austral, i. 14. Erio- 



stemon Maa-welli F. v. M. 

 Maycock, James Dottin (d. 1839-40). Eesident in Barbadoes 



for many years. M.D. F.L.S., 1829. 'Flora Barbadensis,' 



1830. Cat. of pi. in Halliday's * West Lidies,' 1837. Pritz. 



210; Jacks. 369; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 72; E. S. C. iv. 305. 



Maycockia A. DC. 

 Meen, Margaret (fl. 1790). Botanical artist. 'Exotic Plants 



from Royal Gardens at Kew,' 1790. 

 Meeson, Henry Ashton (fl. 1836-1846). Of London. M.D. 



Memb. Bot. Soc. London. * On Formation of Leaves,' Ann. & 



Mag. iv. (1840), 137. 

 Meller, Charles James (1836 ?-1869) : b. 1836; d. Berrima, 



Sydney, 26th Feb. 1869. M.R.C.S., 1857. F.L.S., 1867. 



Trtivelled in Ah'ica with Livingstone, and in Madagascar. 



Superintendent, Bot. Gardens, Mauritius. Plants at Kew. 



Journ. Bot. 1869, 212; R. S. C. iv. 330; Proc. Linn. Soc. 



1869-70, cii. Mellera S. Moore. 

 Mellor, John (1767-1848): b. Royton, Lane, 1767; d. Royton, 



Oct. 1848 ; bur. Royton. " Father of working-men botanists of 



Lancashire." Hand-loom weaver and cotton-spinner. After- 

 wards working nurseryman. Member Rochdale Bot. Soc. 



Cash, 90 ; Cott. Gard. i. 74 ; Buxton, Bot. Guide Manchester, ix. 

 Melville, Andrew Smith (d. 1876). Of Galway. Lecturer on 



Bot. and Geology, Edinb. School of Arts, 1876. 'Athenaeum,' 



July 22nd, 1876, p. 119. 

 Melville, Robert (1723-1809) : b. Monimail, Fife, 12th Oct. 1723; 



d. 20th Aug. 1809. Brigadier-General. Governor of the West 



Indies. F.R.S. Founded St. Vincent Bot. Garden, 1765. 



Rose, Biog. Diet. ; Appleton, Cyclop. Americ. Biog. Melvilla 



And. = Cuphea. 

 Menzies, Archibald (1754-1842) : b. Weims, Perthshire, 15th 



March, 1754 ; d. London, 15th Feb. 1842. Gardener, Bot. 



Gard., Edinb. Assistant-surgeon, R.N. Surgeon and naturahst 



