BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 373 



to Vancouver, 1790-1795. F.L.S., 1790. Discovered Pdhes 



speciosum, 1779. Introduced Aroucaria imhricata, 1796. Plants 



in Herb. Mus. Brit, and at Kew. Imperial Diet, of Univ. 



Biog. ; Smith Lett. ii. 272 ; Fl. Tasmania, cxiv. ; ' Bot. of 



Geol. Survey of California,' 553 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 189 ; 



Lasegue, 366 ; R. S. C. iv. 345. Portr. at Kew, and oil portr. 



by Eddis at Linn. Soc. Menziesia Sm. Abies Menziesii. 

 Meredith, Louisa Anne {nee Twamley) (1812-c. 1862) : b. Bir- 

 mingham, 1812; d. circ. 1862; m. Charles Meredith, 1839. 



'Romance of Nature,' 1836, 'Wild Flowers,' 1838. 'Bush 



Friends in Tasmania,' 1860 (drawings and descriptions). Pritz. 



213, 326 ; Jacks. 580, 615 : ' Men of the Time,' ed. 1862. 

 Merrett, Christopher (1614-1695) : b. Winchcombe, Gloucester, 



16th Feb. 1614; d. Hatton Garden, 19th Aug. 1695; bur. 



St. Andrew's, Holborn. B.A., Oxon, 1634. M.D., 1643. 



F.R.C.P., 1651-1681. F.R.S., 1666. ' Musei Harviani custos.' 



' Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum,' 1666. Plants in 



Herb. Sloane, 33, 34. Pult. i. 290-7; Pritz. ed. 1, 190; 



Jacks. 580; Wood, Athen. Oxon. ed. Bhss, iv., coll. 430-2; 



Munk, i. 258 ; Smith, Eng. Flora, i. pref. vii. viii. ; Thomson's 



Hist. Roy. Soc. 22. Merrettia Gray. 

 Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia [nee Watkins) (1804-1889): 



b. Brompton, London, 15th April, 1804 ; d. Stapleford, Cambs., 



4th Jan. 1889; bur. Stapleford. Algologist. 'Nat. Hist. 



Brighton,' 1860. ' List of Marine Algae at Brighton,' Phyt. vi. 



n.s. 513. ' Nitophyllum versicolor,' Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 421. 



Jacks. 249; R. S. C. iv. 351; Journ. Bot. 1889, 160. Merri- 



Jieldia kg. 

 Meyrick, William (fl. 1755 ?-1794). Of Birmingham. ' New 



Family Herbal,' 1789. ' Miscellaneous Botany,' 1794. Pritz. 



ed. 1, 192; Jacks. 200. 

 Middleton, W. (fl. 1812). Discovered Senecio lividus. Eng. Bot. 



t. 2515 ; Baines, Fl. Yorks., pref. Plants in Herb. Yorks. 



Phil. Soc. 

 Miers, John (1789-1879): b. London, 25th Aug. 1789; d. 



Kensington, 17th Oct. 1879. F.L.S., 1839. F.R.S., 1843. 



Grand Cross of Rose of Brazil. In S. America, 1819- 



1838. In Chile and La Plata, 1825. Travels in S. America. 



Monographs of BurmanniacecB, &c., Linn. Trans. 1851, &c. 



* MenispermaceiB,' Ann. & Mag. 1864-67. 'Contributions to 



Bot.' 3 vols. 1861, 1869, & 1871. Herbarium of 20,000 sheets, 



and MSS. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pritz. 217; Jacks. 580; 



R. S. C. iv. 382; viii. 402; Journ. Bot., with portr., 1880, 83; 



Gard. Chron. 1879, i. 522. Coloured photo, at Linn. Soc. 



Miersia Lindl. 

 Mill, G. G. (fl. 1844). Brother of following. On Dissemination 



of Seeds, and List of Marlow Plants in Phyt. i. (1844). R. S. C. 



iv. 387. 

 Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873): b. near Montrose, 20th May, 



1806 ; d. Avignon, 8th May, 1873 ; bur. Avignon. M.P. for 



Westminster, 1865. Logician and economist. Contnbuted to 



