146 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



1832. Of Liverpool till 1817. Friend of Roscoe. Found 

 ErythrcBa latifoUa, Smith, Fl. Brit. iii. 1393 ; Clarke, 49. 

 Smith Corr. ii. 328 ; Gent. Mag. 1846, ii. 65 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 V. 422. 



Boswell, Henry (1837-97) : b. Oxford, 27 Jan. 1837 ; d. Head- 

 ington, Oxford, 4 Feb. 1897 ; bur. St. Sepulchre Cemetery, 

 Oxford. Hon. M.A., Oxou, 1881. Bryologist. * London Cat. 

 of Brit. Mosses' (with C. P. Hobkirk), 1877. Contrib. to 

 Phytologist, 1860 ; to Journ. Bot. from 1872. Herbarium at 

 Oxford Bot. Garden. R.S.C. i. 50; vii. 222; ix. 301; Journ. 

 Bot. 1897, 132, with portr. ; Druce, Fl. Berks, clxxxi. 



Bourne, Edward (fl. 1794). 'Be plantarum irritabilitate,' Edinb., 

 1794. Pritz. 37. 



Brewer, James Alexander (fl. 1838-90) : d. Australia. Local 

 Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond., 1839. ' Flora of Reigate,' 1856. ' Flora 

 of Surrey,' 1863. Pritz. 40 ; Jacks. 258, 260 ; R.S.C. vii. 255. 



Brockbank, William (1830 9-96): b. 1830?; d. Didsbury, 25 

 Sept. 1896 ; bur. Friends' Meeting-house, Ashton-on-Mersey. 

 F.L.S. F.G.S. Cultivated Primulas, Saxifrages, Narcissus, &c. 

 Experimented on doubling and colouring flowers. Gard. Chron. 

 1896, ii. 409. 



Bromfeild, William (fl. 1757). 'An account of the English 

 Nightshades, and their effects.' Londou, 1757. French trans- 

 lation by his son, 1761. 



Brown, Robert (1842-95) : b. Campster, Caithness, 23 March, 

 1842 ; d. Streatham, Surrey, 26 Oct., 1895. Studied at 

 Edinburgh, Leyden, Copenhagen. Ph.D., Rostock. Visited 

 Jan Meyen, Spitzbergeu and Greenland, 1861. Botanist of 

 Brit. Columbia Expedition, 1863-6. In Greenland, 1867. 

 ' Florula Discoana,' Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. ix. 430. ' Manual of 

 Botany,' 1874. Jacks. 367, 53 ; R.S.C. i. 661 ; vii. 279 ; ix. 371 ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1895, 384. Lecidea Campsteriana Lindsay. 



Browne, Edward (1644-1708) : b. Norwich, 1644 ; d. ISForthfleet, 

 Kent, 28 Aug. 1708; bur. Northfleet. M.B., Camb., 1663. 

 M.D., 1670. M.D., Oxon, 1667. F.R.S., 1667. F.R.C.P., 

 1675. P.R.C.P., 1704. Son of Sir Thomas. Travelled in 

 Europe, 1664-73. ' Travels,' 1685. Diet. Nat. Biog. vii. 42 ; 

 Munk, i. 375 ; Wadd. 26. Portr. engr. from one in Buchan Coll. 



Buchanan, John (1855-96) : b. Nuthill, Perth, 1855 ; d. British 

 Central Africa, 9 March, 1896. Gardener at Drummond 

 Gardens, Crieff. Agriculturist to Church of Scotland Mission, 

 Blantyre, Nyassaland, 1876. Acting Vice-Consul, Nyassaland, 

 1888. C.M.G., 1890. Vice-Consul, 1893. Plants at Kew and 

 Brit. Mus. Journ. Bot. 1896, 192; Kew Bulletin, 1896, 148. 

 Albuca BucJianani Baker. 



Buffham, Thomas Hughes (1840-96): b. Long Sutton, Lin- 

 colnshire, 24 Dec. 1840 ; d. Walthamstow, Essex, 9 Feb. 

 1896. A.L.S., 1891. Algologist. Contrib. algological papers 

 to Journ. Quekett Microsc. Club. Algae at Brit. Mus. Journ. 

 Bot. 1896, 170; R.S.C. ix. 395. Gonimophyllum Buffhami 

 Batters, 



