Botany. 191 



Whitehead (JOHN). [1860-99] 



Collections of plants from the Philippines, presented 1895, 1897. 



Whitfield (THOMAS). 



90 plants from West Tropical Africa, presented 1843-48. 



Whitmee (S. J.). 



52 plants from Ellice and Gilbert groups, 370 from Samoa, 148 from 

 Lifu, Loyalty Islands ; purchased 1 878. 



Whyte (ALEXANDER). 



220 plants from Milanji, E. Tropical Africa, enumerated and described 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot., Ser. 2, vol. iv. 



Wickham (Copt. B.N.). 



170 Australian plants, presented 1842. 



Wight (ROBERT). [1696-1872] 



1100 Indian plants, purchased 1869. 

 Wiles (JAMES), [fl. 1790-1805] 



Plants collected (with Christopher Smith) on Bligh's voyage to 

 Otaheite, 1791-93. 



Wilkinson (Sir JOHN GARDNER). [1797-1875] 



400 species collected by him in Egypt, presented 1834. 

 Willkomm (HEINRICH MORITZ). [1821-95] 



Spanish plants acquired with Herb. Shuttleworth. 

 Wilms (FRIEDRICH). 



2,073 South African plants, purchased 1898-1900. 

 Wilson (JOHN BRACEBRIDGE). [1828-95] 



523 Australian algae, presented 1885-93 ; his collection of Victorian 

 algae, containing 1,485 specimens and 140 microscope-slides, purchased 

 1896. 



Wilson (WILLIAM). [1799-1871] 



His herbarium of British and exotic mosses and hepatics, consisting of 

 upwards of 50,000 specimens, critically annotated and illustrated with 

 innumerable pencil drawings. This large and important collection was 

 purchased in 1873 ; in it are contained the materials upon which 

 Wilson based his " Bryologia Britannica " (1855) and his descriptions of 

 the mosses of Ross's Antarctic expedition, Seemann's "Voyage of the 

 Herald," Drummond's mosses of the Southern United States, and other 

 collections; also numerous authentic specimens of the greatest utility 

 from notable herbaria, and gatherings of mosses from most parts of the 

 world (cf. Journal of Botany, 1875, p. 180). In 1874 Wilson's lichens 

 and fungi and supplementary mosses were purchased; in 1900, 437 of 

 his British mosses were acquired by exchange from Warrington Museum. 



Wimmer (FRIEDRICH). [1803-68] 



272 specimens of Salices, purchased 1871. 

 Winterbottom (JAMES EDWARD). [1803-54] 



See STRACHEY. 



