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1826; Pritz. 3; R. S. C. i. 30; Diet. Nat. Biog, i. 190. 



Ainslicea DC. 

 Aiton, William (1731-1793): b. near Hamilton, N.B., 1731; 

 d. Kew, 1st February, 1793. Director of Kew, 1759-1793. 

 ' Hortus Kewensis,' 1789 ; Bees ; Pritz. 3 ; Jacks. 412 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. i. 207 ; Cott. Gard. v. 263 ; Oil portr. and engr., 

 Kew; Johnson, 298; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 82. Aitonia Thunb. 

 Aiton, William Townsend (1766-1819) : b. Kew, 2nd February, 

 1766; d. Kensington, 9th October, 1849. F.L.S., 1797. 

 Director of Kew, 1793-1811, Pritz. 3; Jacks. 412; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. i. 208 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 82 ; ' Hortus Kewensis,' ed. 2, 

 v. 531. Portr. by L. Poyet, Kew. 

 Alchorne, Stanesby (d. 1799 or 1800). Apothecary. Assay- 

 master in the Mint. Hon. Demonstrator at Chelsea, 1771-1773. 

 Semple ; Linn. Letters, ii. 4-7. Alchomea Martyn. 

 Alcock, Randal Hibbert (1833-1885) : b. Gatley, Cheshire, 21st 

 July, 1833; d. Didsbury, Lane, 9th November, 1885. F.L.S., 

 1876. 'Botanical Names for English Readers,' 1876; Jacks. 

 9, 499 ; Journ. Bot. 1886, 160 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1 885-6, 137. 

 Alderson, John (1757?-1829) : b. Lowestoft, 1757?; d. Hull, 

 16th September, 1829. M.D. One of founders of Hull Garden. 

 'Essay on Rhm Toxicodendron,' 1793; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 243; 

 Corlass & Andrews, ' Sketches of Hull Authors,' 6; Gent. Mag. 

 Nov. 1830, 451. Two statues at Hull. 

 Alexander, William (fl. 1820), M.D., of Halifax. Trans. Hort. 



Soc. i. 328. 

 Alfred the Philosopher (?de Sarchel, or Sereshel) : d. 1270. « An 

 Englishman, much respected at home." ' On Vegetables.' Fel- 

 ton, 4 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 285. 

 Allan, James (fl. 1853). Ph.D. ; A. M. : Prof. Chemistry, Man- 

 chester. 'Botanist's Word-book,' 1853, with G. Macdonald; 

 Jacks. 9; Gard. Chron. 1853, 791. 

 Allcard, J. F.L.S. (d. 1844), of Stratford Green, Essex. His 

 garden described. Gard. Chron. 1841, 119, 599 ; 1842, 271, 855 ; 

 1843, 559. 

 Allman, William (1776-1846) : b. Kingston, Jamaica, 7th Feb., 

 1776 ; d. Dublin, 8th December, 1846. M.D., Dublin, 1804 ; 

 Prof. Botany, Dublin, 1809-1844. MS. on 'Mathematical 

 Connection between Parts of Vegetables,' 1811, in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. Pritz. 4 ; Jacks. 17, 40, 65 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 335 ; R. S. C. 

 Alston, Charles (1683-1760) : b. Eddlewood, W. Scotland, 1683 ; 

 d. Edinburgh, 22nd November, 1760. M.D., Leyden ?1716; 

 Prof, of Botany, Edinburgh, 1719-1760. ' Tirocinium Botamcum 

 Ediuburgense',* 1753. Pult. ii. 9-17 ; Pritz. 5 ; Gent. Mag. 

 1760, 544; Jacks. 16, 32, 411; Bees; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 846; 

 Rich. Corr. 275. Ahtonia Linn. fil. 

 Anderson, Alexander (d. 1811): d. St. Vincent, W. Indies, 8th 

 September, 181 1 . M.D. ; F.L.S., 1808. In America from 1775. 

 Curator, St. Vincent Garden, from 1785. Demerara pi. m Mus. 

 Brit. Pritz. 6; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 372; Cott, Gard. vim; 

 Lambert, ' Pinus,' ii. 14; Gard. Mag. i. (1826), 194; Banksian 

 Corresp. 3rd May, 1789, and 30th March, 1796. Andcrsoma ii.iSx, 



