BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 309 



540; R. S. C. ii. 314; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1856, xxxix.; Cotfc. 



Gard. xvi. 152 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 206. 

 Don, George (d. 1814): b. Kincardineshire; d. Forfar, Jan. 



1814. A.L.S., 1803. Father of preceding. Curator, Edinburgh 



Bot. Gard.^ Afterwards nurseryman, of Doo Hillock, Forfar. 



Found various rare Higbland plants. Mem. Wernerian Soc. 



vol. hi. 1821. R. S. C. ii. 314. Donia G. & D. Don = Clianthus. 



Jungermannia Donmana Hook. 

 Donald, James (1815-1872): b. Forfar, 1815; d. Hampton 



Court, 13th Dec. 1872. At Chiswick, 1839-1842. Pupil of 



Lmdley. Superintendent, Hampton Court, from 1856. Left 



an herbarium. Wrote on Begonias. Gard. Chron. 1873, 46. 



B. S. C. ii. 314. Donnldia Klotzsch = Begonia. 



Donn, James (1758-1813): b. 1758; d. Cambridge, 14th June, 

 1813. A.L.S., 1795. F.L.S., 1812. Under Aiton at Kew. 

 Curator, Cambridge Garden, 1796. 'Hortus Cautabrigiensis, 

 1796. Pritz. 89 ; Jacks. 409 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 222. 



Donovan, Edward (1798-1837) : b. 1798 ; d. Kennington, Lon- 

 don, 1st Feb. 1837. F.L.S. Pritz. 90; Jacks. 540; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xv. 236. 



Doody, Samuel (1656-1706) : b. Staffordshire, 1656; d. London, 

 1706. Apothecary. F.R.S., 1695. Keeper of Chelsea Garden 

 from 1692. Assisted Ray in ' Historia,' vol. ii. , and in ' Synopsis.' 

 Left MS. on Mosses, Sloane MS. 2315. Corresponded with 

 Petiver and Plukenet. Herbarium in Sloaue's at Mus. Brit. 

 " The Dillenius of his time," Pult. " Inter pharmacopoeos 

 Londinenses sui temporis coryphaeus," Juss. Rich. Corr. 11; 

 Sloane MSS. 2972, 4043 ; Phil. Trans. 1697, 390 ; Fl. Midd. 

 376; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 236. Doodia Roxb. = Uraria. 



Doodia R. Br. 



Douglas, David (1798-1834): b. Scone, Perth, 1798; killed, 

 Sandwich Isles, 12th July, 1834; bur. on spot. A.L.S., 1824. 

 F-L.S.,1828. Apprenticed at Scone. WithW. J. Hooker in High- 

 lands. Sent to America by Hort. Soc, 1823. At Rio, 1824 ; in 

 British Columbia, 1825-1827; in California, 1830-1832; on 

 Fraser River, 1832-1833. PI. at Kew, Mus. Brit., and Cambridge. 

 Collected 800 species in California. Introduced 217 new species 



into England. Parry, ' Early Botanical Explorers of 



Pacific Coast,' 'Overland Monthly,' 1883 ; Loud. Gard. Mag. xi. 

 (1835), 271 ; Cott. Gard. vi. 263; Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. xxiv. 

 173, with engr. portr. ; Pritz. 570 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 291 ; 

 ft- S. C. ii. 327. Original portraits at Kew and Linn. Soc. 

 Douglasia Lindl. P&eudotouga Dowjlassii Carr. 



■Douglas, Francis (fl. 1830-1841). ' M.D. Pres. Berwick Nat. 



Club, 1841-1842. Proc. Benv. Club, i. 132; R. S. C. ii. 327. 



James 



d. Red Lion 



Square, London, April, 1742 ; bur. St. Andrew's, Holborn. 

 M-D. f llheims. F.R.S., 1706. F.R.C.P., 1721. 'Liliuin 

 sarniense,' 1725. 'Arbor Yemensis,' 1727. " Vir eruditus et 

 solers," Haller. Phil. Trans. 1725, 380 ; Pult. ii. 234 ; Pritz. 

 90; Munk, ii. 77 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 329. Douglama Houston 



Volkameria L. 



