52 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Abbot, Charles (1761 ?-1817): b. Winchester? 1761?; d. Bedford, 

 October, 1817. Clerk. D.D., Oxon, 1802. Vicar of Oakley 

 Kaynes and Goldington, Beds. F.L.S., 1793. 'Flora Bed- 

 fordiensis,' 1798. Herbarium at Turvey Abbey, Beds. Gent. 

 Mag. 1817, ii. 378; Journ. Bot. 1881, 40; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 i. 3. 



Abbot, Robert (fl. 1630), of Hatfield, Clk. " ExceUent and diligent 

 herbalist," Pult. i. 137 ; Johnson's Gerard, 166, 175, 216. 



Abel, Clarke (1780-1826) : d. at Cawnpore, 14th November, 1826. 

 M.D., F.L.S., 1818. In China with Lord Macartney, 1816. 

 Chinese plants in Brit. Mus. Pritz. 1 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 32 ; 

 Gent. Mag. xcvii. pt. n. (1827), 644. Portr. at Kew. Abelhi R. Br. 



Abercrombie, John (1726-1806) : b. Edinburgh, 1726 ; d. London, 

 30th April or 1st May, 1806. Pritz. (ed. 1), 1; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 i. 36 ; Johnson, 219 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 65 ; Journ. Hort. lv. (1876), 

 469, portr. ; Felton, 153 ; Biog. in his ' Gardener's Pocket 

 Journal,' ed. 35, 1857. Best portr. in his ' Universal Gardener,' 

 ed. 1783; full-length, set. 72, in ed. 16, 1800. 



Acton, Frances Stackhouse, nee Knight (1793?-1881): d. Acton 

 Scott, Salop, 24th January, 1881. Eldest d. of T. A. Knight, 

 m. Thomas Pendarves Stackhouse Acton, 1812. Shared in her 

 father's experiments. Artist. Gard. Chron. 1881, i. 182. 



Adams, Francis (1796-1861) : b. Lumphanan, Aberdeen, 13th 

 March, 1796 ; d. Banchory Ternan, 26th February, 1861. M.A., 

 Aberdeen ; Hon. M.D., 1856 ; LL.D., Glasgow, 1846. Greek 

 scholar. Translated Hippocrates, 1849. Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 95; 

 Murray, « Northern Flora,' xvii. and Append. I. Bust at Univ., 

 Aberdeen. 



Adams, George (1720-1786? or 1773): b. London, 1720; d. 

 London, 5th March, 1786 ? « Micrographia Illustrata ' ; Pritz. 1 ; 

 Jacks. 219 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 97. 



Adams, George, jun. (1750-95): b. London, 1750; d. London. 

 14th August, 1795. F.L.S., 1788. Son of above. Pritz. 1; 

 Jacks. 219 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 97 ; Gent. Mag. lxv. 708. 



Adams, John (fl. 1793). F.L.S., 1795. Of Pembroke. Corre- 

 spondent of Sowerby. Drowned off Pembrokeshire, 183-. 

 E. B. Ill, 248, 462 ; Lees' ' Botanical Looker-out, 1 



Adams, John (fl. 1785). Of Edmonton. ' Account of a Variegated 

 American Aloe,' 1785 ; Pritz. (ed. 1), 2. 



Aikin, Arthur 1773-1854): b. Warrington, 19th May, 1773: 

 d. London, 15th April, 1854. F.L.S., 1818. Original Member 

 Geological Soc, 1807; Sec, 1811; Sec. to Society of Arts, 

 1817-1840. Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 184; Proc. Geol. Soc. xi. (1855), 

 p. xli. ; Wall. PL Asiat. iii. 65. Aikinia Br. = Rpithenut Bl. 



Aikin, John (1747-1822) : b. Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester, 15th 

 January, 1747 ; d. Stoke Newington, London, 7th December, 

 1822. M.D., Leyden, 1784; F.L.S., 1795. Memoir by Lucy 

 Aikin, 1823, portr., engr. by Englehart ; Jacks. 213, 244 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. i. 185; Munk, ii. 421; Gent. Mag. 1823, i. 85; 

 Portr. by J. Donaldson, engr. by Knight. Aikinia Salisb. 



Ainslie, Whitelaw (c. 1788-c. 1835). M.D. ' Materia Iudica,' 



