112 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Jacks. 522 ; Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. 170 ; Gent. Mag. 1823 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. v. 55. 



Binney, Edward William (1812-1881) : b. Morton,<Notts., 1812; 

 d. Manchester, 19th December, 1881. F.G.S., 1853. F.B.S., 

 1856. « Sigillaria,' 1858, &c. Jacks. 181 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 v. 56. 



Bird, Frederick John (d. 1874) : d. 28th April, 1874. A.L.S., 

 1840. F.L.S., 1862. M.D. Brother of Golding Bird. 'The 

 artificial arrangement of British Plants.' Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 

 1838, 604. 



Bird, Golding (1814-1854): b. Downham, Norfolk, 9th December, 

 1814 ; d. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 27th October, 1854. M.D. 

 St. Andrews, 1838. M.A., 1840. F.B.C.P., 1845. F.L.S., 

 1836. F.E.S. Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 74 ; Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 

 1838. 



Bird, Richard (fl. 1862). Of Tame Valley, Dukinfield, Cheshire. 

 Working-man. Journ. Hort. iii. 767. 



Bishop, David (1788-1849) : b. Scone, Perth ? c. 1788 ; d. Malone, 

 Belfast, 4th August, 1849. Curator, Belfast Botanical Garden, 

 circ. 1830. ' Causal Botany,' 1829. Pritz. 28 ; Jacks. 68 ; 

 Cott. Gard. ii. 306. 



Black, Allan A. (1832-1865) : b. Forres, Morayshire, 1832 ; d. 

 in Bay of Bengal, 4th December, 1865 ; buried on Table Island, 

 in Cocos group. A.L.S., 1858. Apprenticed at Dunkeld. Kew 

 gardener. Curator of Kew Herbaria. Superintendent of Bot. 

 Garden, Bangalore. Contributed list of Japan plants to 

 • Bonplandia,' and to Hodgson's ' Japan '• and ' Treasury of 

 Botany ; ' Pritz. 28 ; Gard. Chron. 1866, 102 ; Journ. Bot. 1866, 

 64. AUanblaekia, Oliver. 



Blackburn or Blackburne, John (1690-1786). Of Orford, 



Lancashire. Built first hot-house in north of England and 

 first ripened pine-apples. Catalogue of his garden by Adam 

 Neal, published 1779. Loudon « Arboretum,' 56. Kich. Corr. 

 xxx. 324; Gent. Mag. lvii. 204; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 123. 

 Blackburm'a, Forst. to him and his daughter Anna. 



Blackstone, John (d. 1753) : Apothecary, of Fleet ^ Street, 



London. ' Fasciculus pi. circa Harefield ,' 1^37. 



« Specimen Botanicum,' 1746. Pritz. 28; Jacks. 523; Fl. Midd. 

 389-91 ; Rich. Corr. 351-5 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 132. Print m 

 Hope Collection. Blaekttoma, Hudson = Ghlora, L. 



Blackwell, Alexander (c. 1709-1747) : b. Aberdeen ?, tire. 170J; 

 beheaded, Stockholm, 9th August, 1747. Printer. Husband ot 

 Elizabeth Blackwell. Abridged Miller's ■ Botanicum Officinale 

 for her 'Herbal.' Gent. Mag. 1747, 424-6. Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 v. 142. 



Blackwell, Elizabeth (c. 1700-c. 1747): b. Aberdeen, c. 1/W, 

 d. London (?) after 1747 ; m. Dr. Alexander Blackwell oi 

 Chelsea. « A Curious Herbal,' cuts drawn, engr. and col. by 

 herself, 1737-9. Pult. ii. 251-6 ; Pritz. 28; Jacks. 31 ; Gent. 

 Mag. xvii. 'Lives of Eminent Men of Aberdeen,' by James 

 Bruce, 307-18. -Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 144. Blacknellia, Comm. 



