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Mary- 



West 



Westminster 



Alexander Pendarves ; m. 2, Bev. Patrick Delany, Dean of Down. 

 Executed a Herbal in 9 vols, folio, of 100 plates each, in coloured 

 papers, having "the exactness of Botany," 1778. Pritz. 78; 

 Jacks. 44; Autobiog. 1861-2; W. Gilpin, 'Picturesque Beauty,' 

 ii. 190; Nich. Anecd. iv. 715; Gent. Mag. lviii. 371, 462; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xiv. 308. Portr. by Opie at Hampton Court. 

 Denham, Dixon (1786-1828) : b. London, 1st January, 1786 ; 

 d. Free Town, Sierra Leone, 8th May, 1828. Lieut.-col. 

 African traveller. In Africa with Clapperton and Oudney from 



1822-1825. * Narrative of Travels in and Central 



Africa, 1826, with an 'Appendix of Natural History.' Diet. 



Nat. Biog. xiv. 341. Denhamia Schott = Calcasia. 



Dennes, George Edgar (fl. 1838-8444). F.L.S., 1838. Sec.Bot. 

 Soc. Lond. 1839. Editor, 'London Cat. British Plants' (ed. 1). 

 Phytol. i. 1014, 1098 (1844); Proc. Bot. Soc. Lond. Vicia 



Dennesiana Wats. 



Denson, John (fl. 1822-1838). A.L.S. Curator, Bot. Gard. 

 Bury St. Edmunds. Did the botanical part of Loudon's 'Ar- 

 boretum.* 'Arboretum,' p. viii. Cat. Bot. Gard. Bury St. 

 Edmunds, 1822; Jacks. 409; R. S. C. ii. 240. 



Dent, Peter (d. 1689): b. Cambridge?; d. Cambridge, 1689; 

 bur. St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge, 5th Oct. Physician and 

 Apothecary. M.B., Lambeth, 1678 ; Cambridge, 1680. Friend 

 of Bay. Assisted in the ' Historia.' Pult. i. 200 ; Pryor, Flora 

 Herts. 1. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 378. 



Dewhurst, John (fl. 1810-1835). Fustian-maker. Of Manchester. 

 President of Lancashire Botanists, 1810-1835. Cash, 16. 



•Dick, Robert (1811-1866) : b. Tullybody, Clackmannanshire, 

 Jan. 1811 ; d. Thurso, 24th Dec. 1866 ; bur. same place. 

 Rediscovered Hierochloe borealis. Cash, 170; Life by S. Smiles, 

 with portr. Herbarium at Free Library, Thurso. Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xv. 16. 



Dickenson, Samuel (fl. 1777-1799). Clerk. LL.B. Rector of 



Blymhill, Staffordshire. Correspondent of Withering, and 

 contributed notes on Ayrostis, &c, to 3rd ed. of his 'Arrange- 

 ment.' With. Arr. 3rd ed., preface. Contributed list of plauts to 

 Shaw's ' Hist, of Staffordshire.' Letters in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. 

 Dickie, George (1812-1882): b. Aberdeen, 23rd Nov. 1812; 

 d. Aberdeen, 15th July, 1882. M. A., Aberdeen, 1830. M.R.C.S., 

 Loud., 1834. M.D.,Aberd..Lsi2. A.L.S., 1863. F.R.S., 1881. 

 Algologist. Lecturer on Bot., King's Coll., Aberd., 1839. Prof. 

 Nat. Hist. Belfast, 1849. Prof. Bot. Aberdeen, 1860-1877. 



' Flora Aberdonensis,' 1839. ' Botanist's Guide to 



Aberdeen ', I860. « Flora of Ulster,' 1864. Pritz. 82 ; 



Jacks. 539 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 32 ; R. S. C. ii. 283 ; vii. 531 ; 

 Top. Bot. ed.i. 522; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1839; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1882-3,40; Stewart & Corry.Fl.N.E. Ireland, xx. Algae in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. Uickieia Berkl. & Balfs. Cystopteris Dickieana Hook. 



