308 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Dickson, Joseph (d. 1874): d. Berwick-on-Tweed, 4th March, 



1874. M.D., Edin., 1842. Lived long in Jersey. B. S. C. 

 ii. 286. 



Dickson, Robert (1804-1875): b. Dumfries, 1804; d. 18th Oct. 



1875. M.D., Edin., 1826. F.L.S., 1831. Practised in London. 

 Bot. Lect. St. George's Hospital. « Lecture on Dry Rot,' 1838. 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 44. 



Dickson, R. W. (pseud. Alexander M'Donald) (fl . 1806). M.D. ? 

 Of Hendon, Middlesex. « Complete Diet, of Practical Gardening,' 

 1807. Johnson, 282. 



Dillenius, John James (1687-1747) : b. Darmstadt, 1687 ; d. 



Oxford, 2nd April, 1747 ; bur. St. Peter's-in-the-east, Oxford. 



M.D., Giessen. M.D., Oxon, 1785. Came to England, 1721. 



Edited Bay's ' Synopsis,' 1724. ' Hortus Elthamensis,' 1782. 



« Historia Muscorum,' 1741. First Sherardian Prof. Bot. Oxford. 



Pult. ii. 153 ; Bees ; Pritz. 84 ; Jacks. 539 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



xv. 79 ; Linn. Letters, ii. 82 ; Bich. Corr. 209 ; Druce, Fl. 



Oxford, 381. Portr. at Oxford Bot. Gard. Dillenia L. 

 Dillwyn, Lewis Weston (1778-1855): b. Ipswich, 1778; d. 



Skethy Hall, Swansea, 31st Aug. 1855. Of Waltliamstow 



and (from 1803) Swansea. China manufacturer. F.L.S., 



1800. F.R.S., 1804. M.P. for Glamorgan, 1832-1841. 



1 British Conferva,' 1802-1807. ' Botanist's Guide ' (with Daw- 

 son Turner), 1805. 'Hortus Collinsonianus,' 1743. Pritz. 84; 



Jacks. 540 ; R. S. C. ii. 295 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 90 ; Linn. 



Trans, vi. (1802); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1856, xxxvi. ; Friends' 



Books, i. 532. Portr. at Kew. VMwynia Sm. 

 Dixon, David (fl. c. 1800). Of Wakefield. Vet. Surgeon. 



*F1. West Yorks.' p. 99. 

 Dodsworth, Matthew. Clerk. Of Yorkshire. Corresponded 



with Plukenet (Aim. 180, 201, 251). Mentioned in B. Syn. 

 Pult. ii. 121. 



Don, David (1800-1841) : b. Doo Hillock, Forfar, 21st Dec. 

 1800; d. Soho Square, 8th Dec. 1841; bur. Kensal Green. 

 A.L.S., 1823. F.L.S. Came to London, 1819. Employed 

 in Chelsea Garden. Librarian to Lambert, and, from 1822, 

 to Linn. Soc. Prof. Bot. King's College, 1836-1841. ' Prodromus 

 florae Nepalensis,' 1825. Conducted « Sweet's British Flower 



o?S ? ,' from about 183 °- Pritz - 89 > Jacks - 540 : K - s - °- "• 



•?J ! v yt " ** 138 ' with bibliog. ; Ann. & Mag. viii. 1842, 397, 

 with bibhog., and 478 . « Florist's Journal,' no. xxiv. ; Diet. 

 JNat. Liog. xv. 204. honia B. Br. == Grindelia. 



Don, George (1798-1856) : b. Doo Hillock, Forfar, 17th May, 1798 ; 

 d. Bedford Place, Kensington, 25th Feb., 1856. A.L.S., 1822. 

 iQie Vo 183L Brotlie r of preceding. Foreman, Chelsea, 

 lblb-1821. Collected in 'Iphigenia' for Boy. llort. Soc. in 

 brazil, W. Indies, and Sierra Leone, 1822. Trans. Boy. Hort. 

 boc. vols, v., vi., &c. Edited Sweet's « Hortus Britannicus^ 

 f n ' a , n< i P re P af ed 1st Supp. to Loudon's ' Encyclopaedia, 

 txeneral System of Gardening and Botany,' 1831-1837. PI- 

 bought from Roy. Hort. Soc. by Mus. Brit. Pritz. 89 ; Jacks. 



Lees, 



