loo BIOGRAPHICAL IMDEX OJb' BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



the shores of Margate and Ramsgate,' 1841 ; reissued, 1845. 

 Jacks. 218. 



Amherst, Countess (Sarah), {yiee Thynne) (d. 1838) : d. 27th 

 May, 1838; m. (1) Other, 5th Earl of Plymouth ; (2) William, 

 2nd Baron (afterwards 1st Earl) Amherst, 1800. Travelled and 

 collected in India, 1823-8. Wallich, PI. Asiat. Piar. i. 1. 

 Amherstia Wall. 



Amos, William (H. 1801). Of Brotherstoft, near Boston, Lincoln- 

 shire. Agriculturist. ' Minutes in Agriculture and Planting, 

 illustrated with specimens of Natural Grasses,' 1801. 



Anderson, Frederick W. (1866-91): b. Wisbech, 22nd June, 

 1866; d. New York, 22i]d Dec. 1891. D.Sc, Montana, 1890. 

 Went to America, 1881. Papers in BulL Torrey Club and Bot. 

 Gazette. Bot. Gazette, 1892, 78 (portr.). 



Anderson, William (d. 1778) : d. at sea, 3rd Aug. 1778. On 

 Cook's second voyage as surgeon's mate, and on third voyage 

 as naturalist. MS. descriptions of birds and plants in Brit. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. Plants from Australia, New Caledonia, Pacific 

 Islands, &c., in Herb. Mus. Brit. Brown, Prodromus, 553. 

 Diet. Nat. Biogr. i, 393. Andersonia Br. 



[Anderson, T. See Alexander, William Thomas.] 



Archer, William (1830-1897) : b. Enniscorthy, 6th May, 1830 ; 

 d. Dublin, 14th Aug. 1897. Librarian E. Dublin See, 1876- 

 1895. F.R.S., 1875. Papers on Desmids in Proc. DubUn Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. ih.-v. (1859-65). Journ. Bot. 1874. Desmids and 

 Diatoms in Pritchard's ' History of Infusoria,' ed. 4, 1861. 

 Jacks. 158; R.S.C. i. 86; vii. 42; ix. 62. Irish Naturalist, 

 1897, 253 (portr.). 



Atkinson, William (1765-1821): b. Dalton-in-Furness, Lane, 

 3rd May, 1765; d. Dalton, 8th Dec, 1821; bur. Dalton. 

 Solicitor, of Dalton. Contributed to 3rd ed. of With. Arr. 

 List of plants in 1805 ed. of West's 'Antiquities of Furness.' 



Babington, Charles Cardale (1808-95) : b. Ludlow, Shropshire, 

 23rd Nov. 1808 ; d. Cambridge, 22nd July, 1895 ; bur. Cherry 

 Hinton, Cambridgeshire. B.A., Camb., 1830. M.A., 1833. 

 F.L.S., 1830. F.R.S., 1851. Prof. Bot., Cambridge, 1861. 

 ' Flora Bathoniensis,' 1834 ; Supplement, 1839. ' Primitiae 

 Florae Sarnies, ' 1839. ' Manual of British Botany,' 1848 ; 

 ed. 2, 1847 ; ed. 3, 1851 ; ed. 4, 1856 ; ed. 5, 1862 ; ed. 6, 1867 ; 

 ed. 7, 1874; ed. 8, 1881. 'Flora of Cambridgeshire,' 1860. 

 ' British Rubi,' 1869. In Iceland, 1846. Herbarium of nearly 

 50,000 sheets and library bequeathed to University of Cam- 

 bridge. Pritz. 10, 11; Jacks. 517; R.S.C. i. 136-9; vii. 62; 

 ix. 91. Journ. Bot. 1895, 257, with portr. 'Memorials,' with 

 portr., 1897. Portr. by W. Vizard at St. John's Coll., Cam- 

 bridge. Babhu/to)iia Lindl. = Bceclda. 



Baillie, Edmund John (1851-97): b. Hawarden, Cheshire, 4th 

 May, 1851; d. Chester, 18th Oct. 1897. Seedsman. F.L.S., 

 1883. ' The City Flora ' in Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Sci., 1878. 

 Journ. Bot. 1897, 464. 



