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BOTANISTS. 



AND 



(Continued from p. 114). 



Boswell, John Thomas Irvine, nS Syme, and afterwards 

 Boswell-Syme (1822-1888) : b. Queen Street, Edinburgh, 1st 

 December, 1822 ; d. Balmuto, Fife, 29th January, 1888 ; bur. 

 Kinghom, Fife. LL.D., St. Andrew's, 1875. F.L.S., 1854. 

 Curator, Bot. Soc. Edin., 1850; Bot. Soc. London, 1851 

 Lecturer at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals. ' English 

 Botany,' ed. 3, 1863-1872. Jacks. 525 ; Journ. Bot. 1888, 82. 

 Portr. Illustr. Lond. News, 11th February, 1888. Sywea Baker 



= Solaria Philippi. 



Bowdich, Thomas Edward (1790-1824) : b. Bristol, 20th June, 

 1791 ; d. Bathurst, Gambia, 10th January, 1824. African 

 traveller. Cape Coast Castle, 1814. 'Mission to Ashantee,' 

 1819. « Excursion to Madeira,' 1825. Pritz. 37 ; Jacks. 525 ; 

 Baillon, i. 481 ; Vallot, • Flore du Senegal,' 13 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. vi. 41. BomUchia H.B.K. 



Bowdich, Mrs. T. E. [see Lee, Mrs. R.] . 



Bowerbank, James Seott (1797-1877) : b. Bishopsgate, London, 

 14th July, 1797 ; d. 8th March, 1877. LL.D. F.L.S., 1845. 

 F.R.S., 1842. ' Fossil Fruits of the London Clay,' 1840. Had 

 100,000 fossil plants from Sheppey, now in Brit. Mus. Pritz. 

 37 ; Jacks. 182 ; R. S. C. i. 553 ; ' Portraits of Men of Eminence,' 

 1864 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xiii. 123 ; Proc. Geol. Soc. 1877-8, 

 36 ; Geol. Mag. 1877, 91 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 53. Photo, at 

 Linn. Soc. 



Bowie, James (d. 1853) : b. Oxford Street, London ; d. Cape of 

 Good Hope ?, 1853. Son of seedsman in West Oxford Street. 

 At Kew, 1810. Sent to Brazil, 1814-1817, and to the Cape, 

 1817-1823 and 1827-1853. Superintendent of Baron Ludwig's 

 garden at Cape. Plants in Herb. Brit. Mus. Drawings at 

 Kew. Pritz. (sub Pritchard) 253; Journ. Bot. 1830, 20; 

 Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 568; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 65. Box a 

 Haworth = Aloe in part. Bomua Harvey. Bouiesia Grev. = 

 Delmea Lamx. 



Bowles, George or Bowie (fl. 1650). Of Chiselhurst, Kent. 

 M.D., Leyden, 1640. F.R.C.P., 1664. First found ImpaM n$ 

 Xoli-me-tmujere -; Johnson's Gerard, 446 ; Pult. i. 136; Parkin- 

 son, 'Theatrum,' 297, 954; How, ' Phytologia.' Johnson's 

 Gerard, Pref. and pamtn. Munk. i. 332. 



Bowles, William (1705-1780): b. near Cork, 1705; d. Madrid, 

 25th August, 1780. ' lntroducion a la historia natural . . . 

 de Espaha,' 1775. Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 69. Buwlesia Ruiz & 

 Pavon . 



Bowman, David (1838-1868) : b. Amiston, Edinburgh, 3rd 

 September, 1838 ; d. Bogota, New Granada, 25th June, 1868 ; 



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