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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Vicar of Catherington, 1872. Master of Grammar School, 

 Taunton, 1854. Memb. Bot. Excli. Club, 1866. Somerset 

 Fungi in Proc. Som. Arch^ol. Soc. v. (1854). Helped Leighton 

 (Fl. Sbropsh.). K.S.C. ii. 99; Alumn. Oxon. 

 Cunnack, James (1831-86) : b. Helston, Cornwall, 27 Dec. 

 1831 ; d. Helston, 11 May, 1886 ; bur. Helston Cemetery. 

 Bookseller, of Helston. Had a large herbarium. Correspondent 

 of Watson. Active Member of Bot. Exchange Club. Found 

 Hypericum imdulatum. Journ. Bot. 1891, 98 ; Top. Bot. 542. 



Dale, Francis (fl. 1730) : b. Hoxton ? Relative of Samuel Dale. 

 Travelled in East and West Indies, and sent plants to S. Dale 

 from Bahamas. Journ. Bot. 1883, 227. 



Dale, Thomas (fl. 1700-30). M.D., ? Leyden, 1723. Prob. 

 nephew of Samuel Dale. Sec. Botanical Society (London), 

 1726, and afterwards of Charlestown, S. Carolina. ' De 

 Pareira brava,' Leyden, 1723. Pritz. 75 ; Jacks. 200 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xiii. 386 ; Munk, ii. 362. 



Dalhousie, Lady. See Ramsay, Christina. 



Darwall, Rev. Lester or Leicester (1813-97) : d. Tenby, Pem- 

 brokesh., 22 July, 1897. M.A., Camb., 1838. Incumbent of 

 Crigglon. Had a salicetum. Contributed to Leefe's ' Sahctum 

 Exsiccatum.' Sent Salix cuspidata to Borrer for E. B. S. 2961. 

 Alumn. Oxon. 



Davis, John Ford (1773-1864) : b. Bath, 1773; d. Bath, 1 Jan. 

 1864. M.D., Ediub., 1797. L.R.C.P., 1808. Physician to 

 Bath Hospital, 1817-34. ' Botany of Bath' in ' Historical . . . 

 Account of Bath,' 1802. Babington, 'Flora Batlion.' pref. v. 

 Munk, iii. 67-8; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 168; Boasc. 



De Alwis, Harmanis (d. 1894) : b. Ceylon ; d. Ceylon, 10 June, 

 1894. At Ceylon Bot. Gardens, 1818-94. Assisted Moon in 

 ' Cat. Ceylon Plants ' (1824). Draughtsman to Gardens, 1823-61 ; 

 large series of his drawings there. Drew some plates for 

 Wight's 'Icones.' Helped Thwaites with 'Enum. PI. Zeylaniae.' 

 Journ. Bot. 1894, 255. Alwisia Lindl. = Eria. TcBniopthyllum, 

 Alwisii Lindl. 



De Crespigny, Eyre Champion (1891-95) : b. Vevey, Switzer- 

 land, 5 May, 1821 ; d. Beckenham, Kent, 15 Feb. 1895. 

 M.D., Heidelberg. In India, 1845-62. Conservator of Forests 

 and Superintendent Bot. Gard. Dapsoria, near Poonah, 1859. 

 * New Loudon Flora,' 1877. Had a herbarium. Jacks. 256 : 

 Journ. Bot. 1895, 127. 



De Tabley, Lord. See Warren, John Byrne Leicester. 



Dickson, Francis (1793-1866) : b. Edinburgh, 25 Dec. 1793 ; 

 d. Chester, 3 March, 1866; bur. Chester Cemetery. Seeds- 

 man at nurseryman at Chester, 1819. Correspondent of Loudon 

 and T. A. Knight. Corr. Memb. Roy. Hort. Soc, 1825. Journ. 

 Hort. x. (1866), 241. 



Donovan, Edward. See O'Donovan. 



Drummond-Hay, Henry Maurice, ne Drummond (1814-96) : 

 b, 1814; d. Seggieden, Perth, 3 Jan. 1896; bur. Kinfauns, 



