88 BIOGRAPHICAL 



Linn 



ex And. Bot. Kep. 



Bauera Banks 



Bauer, Francis (1758-1840) : b. Feldsberg, Austria, 4th October, 

 1758; d. Kew, 11th December, 1840; bur. at Kew. F.L.S., 

 1804. F.B.S., 1820. Came to England, 1788. Employed as 

 artist by Banks. « Delineations of Exotic Plants ' . . . , 1796. 

 ' Strelitzia depicta,' 1818. ' Ergot,' Linn. Trans. 1840. Ann. 

 & Mag. v. 1840, 47; Pritz. 17; Jacks. 519; G-ard. Chron. 1841, 

 22 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 1841, 101 ; Proc. Boy. Soc. iv. (1843), 

 342 ; Ann. & Mag. vii. 1841, 77, 439. Portr. at Kew. Bauera 

 Banks ex Andr. Bot. Bep. 



Baxter, William (1787-1871): b. Bugby, Warwick, 15th January, 

 1787; d. Oxford, 1st November, 1871. A.L.S., 1817. Curator, 

 Oxford Bot. Garden, 1813-1851. 'British Phsenogamous 

 Botany,' 1834-1843. Pritz. 18; Jacks. 235; Journ. Bot. 

 1871, 380; Gard. Chron. 1871, 1426; Loud. Gard. Mag. x. 

 (1834), 110; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 438; Druce, 'Flora of 

 Oxfordshire,' 392. Engr. at Kew, by J. Whessell, from drawing 

 by A. Burt. 



Baxter, William (fl. 1823-1830). Collector in South Australia. 

 Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. B. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 

 Suppl. 1830. Baxtena B. Brown. 



Beaton, Donald (1802-1863) : b. Urray, Boss-shire, 8th March, 

 1802; d. Surbiton, Surrey, October, 1863. Cott. Gard. xin. 

 153, portr.; Journ. Hort. v. (1863), 349 and 415, portr. 

 Beatonia Herbert. 



Beattie, James (1735-1803) : b. Laurencekirk, Kincardine, 25th 

 October, 1735 ; d. Aberdeen, 18th August, 1803. M.A., Aber- 

 deen, 1753. A.L.S., 1807. Prof., Aberdeen. Added Linnaa 

 to British Flora, E. B., 433. Life by Sir W. Forbes, 1806; 

 Smith, Lett. i. 441-3 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iv. 23. 



Beaufort, Mary, Duchess of [see Somerset] . 



Beaumont, John (d. 1731): d. Stone-Easton, Somerset, March, 

 1731; bur. Stone-Easton. Surgeon. F.B.S., 1685. 'Bock- 

 plants in the Lead Mines of Mendip Hills.' Sloane MS. 4087, 



128-32 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iv. 60 ; Bay Lett. 



Beaumont, Lady Diana (fl. 1826). Contribute* 



to the Calcutta Bot. Garden. Beaumontia Wall 



not as in Pritz. 18. 



European 



Thomas (1770-1848) : b. 1770 ; d. Hill House, 

 Southwell, Notts., 3rd January, 1848. Clerk. M.A., Oxon, 

 1795. Prebendary of Southwell, 1818. Determined Or**** 

 nudifhwm. E. B. 491 ; Gent. Mag. April, 1848 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. iv. 75. 



Bedford, John, Duke of [see Bussell, John] . 



Beeke, Henry (1751-1837) : b. Kingsteignton, Devon, 6th January, 

 1751 ; d. Torquay, Devon, 9th March, 1837. Clerk. B-A-, 

 Oxon, 1773. D.D., 1800. F L.S., 1800. Dean of Bristol, 181*« 

 Gent. Mag. n. s. vol. vii. ; Smith MSB. ; Turner & Dillwyn, 

 « Bot. Guide,' p. 527, 8 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iv. 124 ; Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (1837), 61, 392. Distinguished Lotm pthsm. , 



Beeston, William (1072 ?-1732) : d. Bentley, Suftolk, «» 



