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Ansell, John (b. Hertford). Afterwards of Chislehurst, Kent. 



On Niger Expedition with Vogel in 1841. Ansell ia Lindl. 



Aram, William (fl. 1770 ) . Of Norwich (? i. Wrote list of Norfolk 



pi. in ' Description of England and Wales,' 1769-70, vol. vi. 

 Jacks. 503. 



Archer, John (fl. 1660-1684). Physician to Charles II. Of 

 Knightsbridge. ' Complete Herbal,' 1673. Jacks. 199; Granger, 

 iv. 5; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 71. Engr. portr. in his 'Secrets 

 Disclosed,' 1684. 



Archer, Thomas Croxen (1817-1885): b. Northamptonshire, 



1817; d. Edinburgh, 19th February, 1885. Surgeon. In 



Liverpool Custom House, 1841-1860. Director, Edinburgh 



Museum of Science and Art, 1860-1885. Pres. Bot. Soc. 



Edinb. 1862. < Popular Economic Botany,' 1853. Pritz. 8 ; 



Jacks. 66, 192 ; R. S. C. i. 85 ; vi. 567 ; vii. 42 ; Trans. Bot. 



Soc. Ed. xvi. (1886), 272. 

 Arden, Lady (fl. 1796). Correspondent of J. E. Smith. Fungo- 



logist. E. B. 461. 

 Ardern, John (fl. 1349-1370). Surgeon. Of Newark. ' De re 



herbaria ' Sloane MS. 56, 335, 341, 2002, 3844, 1991. 



Pult. i. 23; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 76; Friend, Hist. Physic; 



Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib. 48 ; Haller, i. 229. Ardemia Salisb. 

 Argyle, Archibald, Duke of [see Campbell, Archibald] . 

 Armistead, Wilson (fl. 1838-1865). Of Leeds. Meteorologist 



and entomologist. ' To my Botanical . . . Friends,' 1865, 8vo. 



Herbarium. 'Friends' Books,' i. 131 ; Hall, « Flora of Liver- 

 pool,' vii. 



Arnold, Joseph (1782-1818): b. Beccles, 28th December, 1782 ; 



d. Padang, Sumatra, July or August, 1818. M.D., Edin., 1807; 



E.N.; F.L.S., 1815. Memoir by Dawson Turner, Ipswich, 



1849; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 110; Linn. Trans, xiii. 201. Col. 



medallion portr. Kew. Rafiesia Arnold* B. Br. 

 Arnott, George Arnott-Waiker [see Walkeb-Arnott] . 

 Artis, Edmund Tyrrell (fl. 1825). House-steward to Earl Fitz- 



william. 'Antediluvian Phytology,' 1825. Pritz. 9; Jacks. 



176, 182. 

 Arviel, Henry (c. 1280). Resided at Bologna. 'Be Botanica, 



siye Stirpium Varia Historia.' Pult. i. 22 ; Tanner, Bibl. Brit.- 



Hib. ; " Varia itinera susceperat," Haller, i. 219. 

 Ascham, Anthony (fl. 1550). Clerk. Physician. Vicar of 



Burniston, near Bedale, Yorkshire. 'A Little Herbal,' 1550. 



Pult. i. 50-1 ; Pritz. 9 ; Jacks. 25 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 149 ; 



Baker, ' Fathers of Yorkshire Botany.' Aschamia Salisb. = Hip- 



peartrvm (in part). 

 Ashby, John 1 1754 ?-1828) : d. Bungay? 24th November, 1828. 



Grocer and draper. Of Bungay. Contributor to Smith's ' Flora 



Britannica.' Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. (1829), 120. . 



Ashfield, Charles James (fl. 1860). B. S. C. i. 107 ; vn. 58. 

 Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692): b. Lichfield, 23rd May, 1617; 

 d- 18th May, 1692. Hon. M.D., Oxon, 1690. Diet Nat. Biog. 

 "• 172 ; Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s. i. 272 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 269 ; 



Athen. Oxon. iii. 354. 



