444 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Oxon, 1872. F.L.S., 1880. F.E.S., 1877. Linacre Prof., 1881. 

 Naturalist, 'Challenger' Expedition, 1872, and collected plants. 

 Memoir in liis ' Notes by a Naturalist,' ed. 2, with portr. 

 R.S.C. viii. 445 ; x. 859 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1890-92, 72; Boase; 

 Diet. Nat. Biogr. xxxix. 176 ; Alumni Oxon. 



Mueller, Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von (1825-96) : b. 

 Rostock, Germany, 30 June, 1825 ; d. South Yarra, Melbourne, 

 10 Oct. 1896; bur. St. Kilda Cemetery, Victoria. F.R.S. 

 F.L.S., 1859. Baron (Wurtemberg), 1871. K.C.M.G. To 

 Australia, 1847 ; appointed Govt. Botanist, 1853. Director 

 Melbourne Bot. Garden, 1857-73. ' Eucalyptographia,' 1879. 

 'Fragmenta phytographise Australise,' 11 vols., 1858-81. Her- 

 barium at Melbourne. Pritz. 226 ; Jacks. 684 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1897, 272 (portr.); R.S.C. iv. 515; viii. 459; x. 874; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1896-7, 60; Kew Bull. 1896, 218; Athenseum, 

 1896, ii. 530. 



Mundy, Henry (1627 ?-82): b. Henley, Oxford, 1627?; d. Henley, 

 28 June, 1682. B.A., Oxon, 1647. Master of Henley Grammar 

 School, 1656. 'Commentarii de Aere vitali, Esculentis . . .' 

 Oxford, 1680; ed. 2, 1685; London, 1681; Frankfort, 1685; 

 Leyden, 1685 ; Hanover, 1687. Wood's Athene, ed. Bliss, iv. 

 49 ; Alumn. Oxon. ; Journ. Bot. 1894, 109. Miindia Kunth. 



Murton, Henry James (1855 ?-81) : b. Cornwall, c. 1855; d. 

 Bangkok, 1881. To Kew, 1872-3 ; Supt. Singapore Gardens, 

 1875-80 ; then with King of Siam at Bangkok. MS. Flora of 

 Singapore (lost). ' Cat. Bot. Garden, Singapore,' 1879. Jacks. 

 452. 



Nasmyth, Sir James (d. 1779) : d. Philiphaugh, Peeblesshire, 



4 Feb. 1779. Studied under Linnaeus in Sweden. '* Said to 



have made extensive collections." Diet. Nat. Biogr. xl. 115. 



Nasmythia Huds. = Eriocaidoji. 

 Neckam, or Necham, Rev. Alexander (1157-1217) : b. St. Al- 



ban's, Herts, Sept. 1157; d. Kempsey, Worcestersh., 1217; bur. 



Worcester. Master at Dunstable. Taught in Paris, 1180. 



Abbot of Augustinians, Cirencester, 1213. ' De Naturis Rerum,' 



in Latin elegiacs, dealing, ijiter alia, with plants, in Rolls 



Series. Diet. Nat. Biogr. xl. 154. 

 Needham, Rev. John Turberville (1713-81) : b. London, 



10 Sept. 1713 ; d. Brussels, 30 Dec. 1781 ; bur. Abbey of 



Condenberg. Educated at Douay ; ordained priest, 1738. 



Microscopist. F.R.S., 1746-7. Pritz. 231; Jacks. 67, 219; 



Papers in Phil. Trans. Diet. Nat. Biogr. xl. 157; Life in Mem. 



Acad. Bruxelles (1783), iv. introd. xxxiii. ; Nich. Illust. viii. 



605 ; Anec. vii. 283, 635. 



Owen, F. W. (fl. 1824). Captain R.N. In East Africa. " In- 

 numeras plantas detexit," Bojer in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 Ser. iv. 267. 

 Owenia Hilsenb. = Ceratogonum Meissner. 



Packe, Charles (1826-96) : b. Prestwold, Leicestersh., 1826 ; d. 

 Stretton Hall, Leicestershire, 16 July, 1896. B.A., Oxon, 1849. 



