268 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Grindon's 'Manchester Flora,' 1859. * Dictionary of English 

 Plant-names' (with J. Britten), 1878-86. Jacks. 10; Journ. 

 Bot. 1893, 241; E.S.C. iii. 404; vii. 1006. 



Home, Sir Everard (1756-1832) : b. Hull, 6 May, 1756 ; d. Chel- 

 sea Hospital, 31 Aug. 1832. Surgeon. P.R.S., 1785. Baronet, 

 1813. Went to Jamaica, N. Zealand, N. Caledonia, &c. Plants 

 (N. Caledonia, &c.) at Brit. Mus. and Kew. Sent living plants 

 to Kew. Correspondence at Kew. Diet. Nat. Biog. xxvii. 227. 

 R.S.C. iii. 413. Portr. by Sir W. Beechey, engr. in his 

 ' Lectures on Comp. Anatomy. Santalum Homei Seem. 



Hooper, James (d. 1830) ; d. at sea, Dec. 1830. Kew gardener. 

 Botanic gardener under Abel on Lord Amherst's embassy to 

 China, 1816-7. Hortulanus at Buitenzorg Bot. Garden, 1817-30. 

 Kew Bulletin, 1893, 174. 



Hopkins, Esther, nee Burton (1815-97): b. 18 Nov. 1815; d. 

 Chester, 27 May, 1897; bur. Bath. Contrib. to Top. Bot. 

 Memb. Bot. Exch. Club. Discovered Fotamogeton decipiens in 

 England. Bot. Exch. Club Eeport, 1866, 13 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1867, 71. Herbarium in possession of Dr. D. M. Atkinson, 

 Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. Potamogeton Burtoyii Hopkins = 

 P. decipiens Nolte. 



Houlton, Joseph (1788-1861): b. Saffron Walden, Essex, 29 Feb. 

 1788; d. London, 14 Jan. 1861. M.R.C.S. M.D., Erlangen. 

 F.L.S., 1823. Surgeon to E. Norfolk militia till 1817. Prac- 

 tised at Saffron Walden and (from 1823) in London. Prof. Bot. 

 to Medico-botanical Society of London. Licensed Lecturer by 

 Society of Apothecaries. 'Esculent qualities of the root-stock 

 of Stachijs palustris,' 1828. Contrib. to Pharm. Journ. R.S.C. 

 iii. 446; 'Medical Times and Gazette,' 1861, 565. 



How, Rev. William Walsham (1823-97) : b. Shrewsbury, Salop, 

 13 Dec. 1823 ; d. Leeuane, Connemara, 10 Aug. 1897 ; bur. 

 Whittington, near Oswestry. B.A., Oxon, 1845; M.A., 1847; 

 D.D., 1886. D.D., Lambeth, 1879. Bishop of Bedford, 1879; 

 of Wakefield, 1888. A founder of the Oswestry and Welshpool 

 Field Club, 1857. Pres. Yorksh. Nat. Union, 1890. Had a 

 herbarium. ' Botany of Great Orme's Head,' in Proc. Oswestry 

 and Welshpool Field Club, 1865. PI. list in Roberts's * Gos- 

 siping Guide to Wales.' Naturalist, 1897, 299, with portr. ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1897, 464. 



Hunter, Rev. Robert (1824 ?-97): d. Eppiug, Essex, 25 Feb. 

 1897. M.A., Aberdeen. LL.D. Missionary Free Church of 

 Scotland in India. Collected in Bermuda, 1884. ' Bermuda 

 Ferns,' Journ. Bot. 1887, 367. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Journ. Bot. 1897, 158; R.S.C. iii. 476; x. 295. 



Hunter, Rev. Sylvester Joseph (1829-96) : b. Bath, 13 Sept. 

 1829 ; d. Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, 20 June, 1896. M.A., 

 Cambridge. S.J. ' Conjugation in Spirogyra,' Journ. Bot. 

 1885, 185. Stonyhurst Magazine, July, 1896. 



Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-95): b. EaUng, Middlesex, 4 May, 

 1825 ; d. Eastbourne, Sussex, 29 June, 1895 ; bur. Finchley 

 Cemetery. Assistant- Surgeon, R.N., 1846, on H.M.S. 'Ratile- 



