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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OP BRITISH AND IRISH 



BOTANISTS. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulgeb, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 56.) 



Bab in 



M.D. Lichenologist. E. B. 450. 



Discovered Lichen pimctatiis = Lecanora lacustrisWith. 



James 



York, 20fcb January, 1869. Nurseryman. Missionary Friend 

 in Norway and the Southern Hemisphere. Correspondent of 

 J. E. Smith and W. J. Hooker. Found Trichomona railicans 

 and Viola armaria, * British Hieracia,' 1856. Pritz. 11 ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1869, 51; Journ. Hort. xli. 1869, 32; Gard. Chron. 3869, 

 136 ; R. S. C. i. 147 ; vi. 573 ; vii. 65. Backhousia Hook. 



Badham, Charles David (1806-1857): b. London, 1806; d. 

 14th July, 1857. M.D. F.R.C.P. Clerk. 'Esculent Fun- 

 guses,' 1847. Pritz. 11 ; Jacks. 244 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 887. 



Baikie, William Balfour (1820 or 1825-1864): b. Kirkwall, 

 Orkney, 27th August, 1825 ; d. Sierra Leone, W. Africa, 80th 

 November or 12th December? 1864. M.D., Edin. R.N. 

 Surgeon to Niger Expedition, 1854. ' Historia Naturalis Or- 

 cadensis, 1848. Jacks. 217 ; Journ. Bot. 1865, 71 ; Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edin. viii. 336 ; Gard. Chron. 1858, 622, 734 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. ii. 406 ; Gent. Mag. March, 1865. Monument in Kirk- 

 wall Cathedral. 



Baily, Miss [see Kane, Lady] . 



Baines, Henry (c. 1800-c. 1880) : b. Halifax, Yorkshire, c. 1800 ; 

 d. York, c. 1880. Sub-curator, York Philosophical Society; 

 Curator of the garden. ' Flora of Yorkshire,' 1840. Formerly 

 in the employ of Mr. Backhouse. Pritz. 12 ; Jacks. 262. 



Baines, Thomas (1822-1875): b. King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1822; 

 d. Durban, Natal, 8th May, 1876. F.R.G.S. Cape Colony, 1842. 

 Artist hi Kafir War, 1848-1851 ; in N.W. Australia in 1855 ; 

 to Zambesi Expedition, 1858, &o. Second edition of Lindley & 

 Paxton's « Flower Garden,' 1880. Jacks. 408; R. S. C. i. 161 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 441. Vignette photo, at Kew. Biog. sketch 

 in his ■ Explorations in S.W. Africa.' Journ. R. G. S. xli. 100; 

 xlv., cxli. 



Baker, H. C. (fl. 1886). Captain, Bengal Artillery. 'List of 

 specimens of wood from India,' 1836. Pritz. 12. 



Baker, Henry (1698-1774) : b. Chancery Lane, London, 8th May, 

 1698 ; d. Strand, London, 25th November, 1774. F.R.S., 1740. 

 Sloane, 152, 252; Nich. Illust. iv. 762; Biogr. Britann. i. 525; 

 Nich. Anecd. v. 172 ; Sloane MSS., 4435, 4436 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. hi. io. Introduced Rheum patmatum. 



Baker, William Lloyd. Clerk. F.L.S., 1793. Of Stout's Hill, 



Gloucester. Discovered Cephnl anther a rubra. Sowerby Letters 

 ^ in Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus. Oil-painting at Hardwicke, Gloucester. 

 Bakewell, Robert (1768-1843): b. 1768; d. Downshire Hiil, 



