374 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Forster, 1837 ; ' Epistolarium Forsterianum,' i. 33-41 ; Memoir 

 in Fl. Tonbrig. ed. 2, 1842 ; Nich. Illustr. viii. 553. 

 Forster, Thomas Ignatius Maria (1789-1860) : b. London, 

 9th Nov., 1789 ; d. Brussels, 2nd Feb, 1860. M.B., Gamb., 1818. 

 F.L.S., 1811. Son of preceding. ' Liber rerum naturalium,' 1805. 

 • Index Fungorum,' 1819. Edited Fl. Tonbrigensis,' ed. 2, 

 1842. Jacks. 14, 547 ; E. S. 0. ii. 670 ; « Recueil de ma vie,' 

 1837 ; ' Epistolarium Forsterianum,' 1845-50 ; Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. 1860, xxiii. ; Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 64; 'Annual Register,' 

 vol. 102(1860), p. 440. 



Forsyth, J. S. (fl. 1827). ' First Lines of Botany,' 1827. Pritz. 

 110 ; Jacks. 547. 



Forsyth, William (1737-1804): b. Old Meldrum, Aberdeen, 1737 ; 

 - d. Kensington Gardens, 25th July, 1804. Gardener, under 

 Philip Miller, 1763 ; at Syon ; at Chelsea, 1771-1784 ; then at 

 St. James' and Kensington Palaces. Pritz. 110; Cott. Gard. 

 iv. 233; Journ. Hort. xxi. (1876), with portr. ; Semple, 112; 

 Felton, 186. Portr. in ' Treatise on Fruit-trees,' 1802. For- 



sythia Walt. = Deeumaria. Forsythia Vahl. 



Forsyth, William (1772 ?-1885) : b. Chelsea? 1772?; d. Not- 

 tingham Place, N.W., 28th July, 1835 ; bur. Chelsea. Son of 

 preceding. ' Botanical Nomenclator,' 1794. Correspondence 

 in Cott. Gardener, vii. 350, &c. Pritz. (ed. 1), 88 ; Jacks. 14 

 Loud. Gard. Mag. xi. (1835), 496. 



Fortune, Robert (1813-1880): b. Kelloe, Edrom, Berwick 

 16th Sept. 1813; d. Brompton, 13th April, 1880. Bot 

 Gard. Edin. ; Chiswick, 1842. Collector to R. H. S. in China 

 Java, &c, 1843-1845 and 1848-1850. Curator, Chelsea 

 1846-1848. 'Wanderings in China,' 1847. Introduced Tea 

 into India. Pritz. 110 ; Jacks. 380 ; Journ. Bot. 1880, 160 . 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xiv. 161 ; R. S. C. ii. 672 ; Gard. Chron. 

 1880, i. 487 ; Cott. Gard. xix. 192 ; Lasegue, 436. Fortunaa 



Ldl. = Platycarya. 



Wensleydale 



8th March, 1712 ; d. Harper St., Red Lion Square, 26th Dec. 

 1780 ; bur. Winchmore Hill. M.D., Edin., 1736. L.R.C.P., 

 1744. F.R.S., 1753. Travelled in Flanders before 1740. 

 Practised in Lombard St. from 1740. Had bot. gard. at Upton, 

 West Ham, from 1762. Loud., 'Arboretum,' 71, 82; Jacks. 

 415 ; Life, by Sir John Elliott, 1781 ; by Dr. Gilb. Thompson, 

 1782 ; by Lettsom, 1783 ; by J. Hack Tuke, 1880 ; Nich. Anecd. 

 ix. 737, with portr. ; Cott. Gard. vii. 327 ; Munk, ii. 154 ; 

 Friends' Books, i. 629 ; ' Memorials of Bartram and Marshall,' 

 by W. Darlington, 495-515. Full-length portr. by Hogarth at 

 R. C. P. Mezzot. by V. Green, after G. Stuart, 1781. Copy at 

 Kew. Wedgwood medallion and bust. Fotheryilla L. 



Foulkes, Robert (fl. 1727): b. Llanfrothen, Merioneth, 1702? 

 B.A., Oxon, 1725. M.D. Of Llanbeder, Denbigh. Recorded 

 Cucubahis baceifer and contradicted it. Linn. Letters, ii. 171 ; 

 Rich. Corr. 132. 



Fox (or Foxe), John (fl. 1695). Surgeon. Sent plants to Petiver 

 from Cape and Bengal. Mus. Petiv. 44, 80. 



