846 BIO0RAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Ehret, George Dionysius (1708 ?-l 770) : b. Erfurt, Saxony, 

 1708?; d. Chelsea, 9th Sept. 1770. Employed in Oxford 

 Garden, 1750. F.R.S., 1757. Botanical artist. Correspondent 

 of Linnaeus. ' Plantae Selectae,' 1750-1773. Mezzo, by J. Haid, 

 after A. Heckell ; copy at Kew. Drawings and MS. autobiog. 

 in Bot. Dept., Mas. Brit. Pult. ii. 284 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-6, 

 42; Pritz. 97; Jacks. 110. Ehretia Trew., Linn. 



Ellis, Daniel (1772?-1841) : b. Gloucestershire, 1772?; d. Edin- 

 burgh, 17th Jan. 1841. Articles 'Vegetable Anatomy' and 



. 'Veg. Physiology' in Encyc. Brit. Suppl., ed. 6. Gard. Chron. 

 1841, 87; Loud. Gard. Mag. 1841, 188. 



Ellis, John (c. 1710-1776) : b. in Ireland, c. 1710 ; d. London, 

 15th Oct. 1776. London Merchant. F.E.S., 1754. Copley 

 Medal, 1768. Menib. Roy. Soc. Upsal. ' Natural History of 

 Corallines,' 1755. Agent for West Florida, 1764 ; for Dominica, 

 1770. Imported many American seeds. Correspondent of 

 Linnaeus. " The main support of Natural History in England," 

 Linnams. Rees ; Pritz. 100 ; Jacks. 543 ; Linn. Letters, i. 79; 

 Nich. Anecd. ix. 331 ; Loud. Arboret. 70. Ellisia P. Browne 



=j= Duranta L. Ellisia L. 



Ellis, Robert (fl. 1700). Collected in S. Carolina, 1700, and sent 

 plants to Petiver. Mus. Pet. 79. Plants in Hb. Sloane, 159. 



Ellis, William (1795-1872) : b. London, 1795 ; d. Hoddesdon, 



Middlesex, 9th June, 1872. Clerk. Missionary. Introduced 



Ounrandra, Grammatophylhim Ellisii, &c. Gard. Chron. 1872, 

 806. 



Embleton, Robert Castles (1806-1877) : b. Berwick-on-Tweed, 



14th Dec. 1806 ; d. Beadnell, Northumberland, 6th Jan. 1877. 



Surgeon. Orig. Member Berwickshire F. Club. Fellow-student 



of H. C. Watson. Formed a herbarium and entomological 



collection. Top. Bot. ii. 543 ; Proc. Berwickshire Field Club, 

 vui. 373. 



Els |y, Joseph Ravenseroft (1833 ?-1857): b. 1833?; d. Spring- 

 field,^ St. Kitt's, 81st Oct. 1857. Surgeon and naturalist to 

 North Australian Expedition. Went to West Indies to collect 

 for Gnsebach. Gard. Chron. 1858, 112. 



Empson, James (d. 1765). Keeper of Nat. Hist. Dept., British 



Museum. Edited Petiver's works, ed. 1767. Jacks. 32. 

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Umbrella-mender, 



_, „ glol . Aoaiai/CLl tuo Doubledays. 'Manual 



for Preservation of Fungi,' 1882. Issued fascicles of Epping 

 Sorest Mosses, 1883-5. R. S. C. vii. 616. 



juvans, Joseph (1808 ?-1874) : b. Tyldesley ?, 1803? ; d. Booths- 

 town, Manchester, 23rd June, 1874 ; bur. St. Mark's, Worsley. 

 " Medical botanist." Friend of Caley, Dewhurst, &c. Culti- 

 vated 300 spp. of medicinal plants. Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 614. 



Evans, William Wilson (1820-1885) : b. Dysart, Fifeshire, 

 1st Jan. 1820 ; d. Edinburgh, 5th May, 1885. Assoc. Bot. Soc. 

 Ed. 1841. Curator, 1843. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. xvi. 1886, 811. 



Evelyn, John (1620-1706) : b. Wotton, Surrey, 31st Oct. 1620 ; 



a. Epping, 12th Jan. 1888 ; bur. Epping. 

 taxidermist, entomologist. Assisted the Dc 



