S6 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Hampstead, London, 15th August, 1843. Geologist. 'Pollen,' 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 1. K. S. C. i. 167 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 23- 



Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630-1694) : b. Denmiln, Fife, 18th 

 January, 1630; d. London, 10th January, 1694. M.D., Caen, 

 1661. Founded Edinburgh Bot. Garden, c. 1680. Pult. ii.3; 

 ' Memoria Balfouriana,' by Sir Robert Sibbald, 1699 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. iii, 48. Balfouria R. Brown. 



Balfour, John Hutton (1808-1884): b. Edinburgh, 15th Septem- 

 ber, 1808; d. Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 11th February, 

 1884. M.A. and M.D., Edin., 1832. F.L.S., 1844. F.B.S. 

 Prof. Bot., Glasgow, 1845 ; Edinburgh, 1845-1879. • Flora of 

 Edinburgh,' 1863. ' Manual of Botany,' 1848. « Class-book of 

 Botany,' 1852. Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 518 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1883-4, 30 ; Gard. Chron. 1884, i. 220 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 56. 



Balfourodendron Mello. 



Ball, Anne E. (fl. 1840). Of Youghal. Algologist. Journ. Bot. 



1840, 191. Balliu Harv. 

 Balls, Matthew (fl. 1869). Of Hitchin and Hertford. Phyt. n. s. 



ii. (1869), 202; Pryor, 'Flora of Hertfordshire,' xlvii. 

 Banekes, Richarde (fl. 1526). "Hero begynnyth a new Mater 



ye whiche sheweth .... Vertues and Properties of Herbes," 



London, 1526. Jacks. 23. 

 Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel (fl. 1829-1841). M.D. Of 



Jamaica. B. S. C. i. 75. Bancroft™ Macfadyen. 

 Banister, John (d. 1692 or 1696 ?) : d. Virginia, U.S.A., 1692. 



Clerk. Missionary in Virginia. Correspondent of Bay, Lister, 



and Compton. 'Cat. of PI. observed in N. America,' in Kay, 



« Hist. PI.' ii. ' Herbarium Virginianum,' 1767. Previously at 



Oxford, Phil. Trans, xxviii. 1713, 188. Letters in Sloane MSS. 



Herb, in Sloane's. Pult. ii. 55-7 ; Pritz. 13 ; Phil. Trans, xvi. 



667; Ray, 'Hist. PL' ii. 1928; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 44; Diet. 



Nat. Biog. iii. 119. Banisteria Houston. 



Banks, George (fl. 1823-1832). F.L.S., 1824. Lecturer on 

 Botany at Devonport. ' Introduction to ... . English Botauy,' 

 1823. 'Indigenous Flora of London and Plymouth,' in Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1829, 265. ' Plymouth and Devonport Flora,' 1830-2. 

 Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 234, 258. 



Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820): b. Argyle Street, London, 13th 



February, 1743 ; d. Spring Grove, Isleworth, Middlesex, 19th 

 June, 1820. M.A., Oxon, 1763. F.R.S., 1766. P.R.S., 1778. 

 D.C.L., Oxon, 1771. Bart. 1781. K.C.B., 1795. Round the 



world with Cook, 1768-1771 ; to Iceland with Solander, 1772. 



Purchased Cliffort's Herbarium. Herbarium and library in 

 Brit. Mus. Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 518 ; Lives by Duncan, Brougham, 

 &c. ; Diet. Nat, Biog. iii. 129 ; Gent. Mag. xc. i. 574, 637 ; 

 Nich. Anec. vii. 20, 509 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 169 ; Felton, 181 ; 

 Linn. Letters, ii. 574-580. Portr. at Hortic. Soc. ; engr. in 

 ♦ European Magazine,' 1795. Oil-painting and busts, one by 

 Chantrey at Linn. Soc. Statue by Chan trey at Brit. Mus., and 

 portr. at Kew. BanJaia L. fil. Josephia Brown. 

 Barclay, George (fl. 1835) : b. Huntley, Aberdeenshire ; d. Buenos 



