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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND lEISH 

 BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S,, F.G.S. 



First Supplement (1893-97). 



(Continued from p. 149.) 



Edwards, Thomas (fl. 1597). *' Apothecarie in Excester, learned 

 and skilfiill ... in the knowledge of plants." Introduced Yucca 

 ghriosa. Ger. 89, 143, 1359. 



Fisher, Henry S. (d. 1881): d. Liverpool, 18 March, 1881. 

 Memb. Bot. Exchange Club. Found (with F. M. Webb) Bosa 

 Jundzilliana. * Flora of Liverpool,' published by Liverpool Nat. 

 Field Club, 1872. Coutrib. papers to Field Club Reports. 

 R.S.C. ii. 627; vii. 668. 



Forster, George (1754-94) : b. Nassenhuben, near Dantzic, 

 Prussia, 26 Nov. 1754; d. Paris, 11 Jan. 1794. Son of J. R. 

 Forster. Accompanied his father to Russia and England 

 and on Cook's second voyage. Prof. Nat. Hist. Cassel, 1779. 

 President Univ. Meutz. ' Characteres ' . . . (with J. R. Forster), 

 1776. 'Florala Insularum Australium Prodromus,' 1786. 

 'Works,' with biogr., Leipsic, 1843. Plants at Brit. Mus. and 

 Kew. Drawings in Bot. Dep. Mus. Brit. Rees ; Pritz. 110 ; 

 Jacks. 547; Lasegue, 365; Journ. Bot. 1885, 360. 



Forster, John Reinhold (1729-98) : b. Dirschaw, Polish Prussia, 

 22 Oct., 1729; d. Halle, 9 Dec, 1798. D.C.L. Oxon, 1775. 

 M.D., Halle, 1781. Came to England, 1766. Taught at War- 

 rington Academy. Naturalist to Cook's second voyage, 1772-5. 

 Prof. Nat. Hist, and Inspector Bot. Garden, Halle, 1780. 

 'Characteres Genera Plantarum,' 1776 (with George Forster). 

 ' Enchiridion,' 1788. Letters in Banks Corresp. Drawings 

 in Bot. Dep. Mus. Brit. PI. in Herb. Mus. Brit, and at Kew. 

 Rees; Pritz. 110; Jacks. 547; Lasegue, 324,365; Journ. Bot. 

 1885, 360. Forstera, L. fil. 



Fox, Henry Stephen (1792-1846) : b. Chatham, Kent, 1792 ; 

 d. Washington, U.S.A., October, 1846. Brit. Minister at 

 Buenos Ayres, Rio Janeiro, and Washington. Uncle of Sir C. 

 J. Fox Bunbury. Had a herbarium formed at Rio, Monte Video, 

 Porto Alegre, &c., 1831-3. Plants in Bunbury's Herb, at Cam- 

 bridge. C. J. F. Bunbury's 'Botanical Fragments,' i. 59, 358, 

 &c. Alumn. Oxon. 



Frampton, Mary (1773-1846): b. Moreton, Dorset, 1773; d. 

 Dorchester, Dorset, 12 Nov., 1846. Five vols, of drawings 

 of Dorset plants in possession of H. Frampton, of Moreton 

 'Journal of M. F., 1779-1846.' Fl. Dors. 39; Salter, Bot. of 

 Poole, 33. 



Garth, Richard (d. before 1605). Of Drayton, South Hants. 

 Senior clerk in the Diplomatic Service. " HistoriaB Plantarum, 



