20 BIOaBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Dawson Turner). B. G, 599. Herb, at Kew. Pritz. 36 ; 

 Jacks. 525; Journ. Bot. 1863-81; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1862, 

 Ixxxv. ; E. S. C. i. 499 ; Phyt. vi. 70 ; Lower, ' Worthies of 



Sussex,' 1865, 71 ; Boase ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 406. Portr. 



at Kew. Borrera G. W. Meyer = Spermacoce. Borreria 



Acharius. 

 Boswarva, J. (fl. 1860). Algologist. Of Plymouth. Cat. Plymouth 



Algge in Eept. Plymouth Institution, 1861-2. E. S. C. ix. 301. 

 Boswell, John Thomas Irvine, ne Syme, and afterwards 



Boswell-Syme (1822-88) : b. Edinburgh, 1 Dec, 1822 ; d. 



Balmuto, Fife, 29 Jan., 1888 ; bur. Kinghorn, Fife. LL.D., 



St. Andrew's, 1875; F.L.S., 1854. Curator, Bot. Soc. Bdin., 



1850 ; Bot. Soc. London, 1851. Lecturer at Charing Cross 



and Westminster Hospitals. ' English Botany,' ed. 3, 1863- 



1872. Jacks. 525 ; Proc. L. Soc. 1887-8, 84 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. 



Ed. xvii. 516 ; Ann. Bot. ii. (1889) 430 (w. bibliog.) ; E. S. C. 



V. 904 ; viii. 1051 ; ix. 301 ; Journ. Bot. 1888, 82. Portr. 



lUustr. Lond. News, 11 Feb., 1888. Symea Baker =: Solaria. 

 Bowdich, Thomas Edward (1790-1824) : b. Bristol, 20 June, 



1791 ; d. Bathurst, Gambia, 10 Jan., 1824. African traveller. 



Cape Coast Castle, 1814. ' Mission to Ashantee,' 1819. 



'Excursion to Madeira,' 1825. Pritz. 37; Jacks. 525; 



Baillon, i. 481 ; Vallot, ' Flore du Senegal,' 18 ; Gent. Mag. 



1824, i. 279 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 41. BowdicUa H.B.K. 

 Bowdich, Mrs. T. E. [see Lee, Mrs. E.]. 

 Bowerbank, James Scott (1797-1877) : b. London, 14 July, 



1797 ; d. 8 March, 1877. LL.D. ; F.L.S., 1845 ; F.E.S., 



1842. Lectured on botany, 1822-24. ' Fossil Fruits of the 



London Clay,' 1840. Had 100,000 fossil plants from Sheppey, 



now in Brit. Mus. Pritz. 37 ; Jacks. 182 ; E. S. C. i. 553 ; vii. 



237 ; ix. 325 ; ' Portraits of Men of Eminence,' 1864 ; Trans. 



Bot. Soc. Edin. xiii. 123 ; Proc. Geol. Soc. 1877-8, 36 ; Geol. 



Mag. 1877, 91 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 53. Photo, at Linn. Soc. 

 Bowie, James (d. 1869) : b. London ; d. Cape of Good Hope, 



30 June, 1869. At Kew, 1810. Sent to Brazil with Allan 



Cunningham, 1814-17, and to the Cape, 1817-23, and 



again in 1827. Superintendent of Baron Ludwig's garden 



at Cape. Plants in Herb. Brit. Mus. Drawings at Kew. 



Pritz. {suh Pritchard) 253, n. 7343 ; Journ. Bot. 1830, 20 ;. 



1889, 93 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 568 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. 227 ; 



Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 65. Bowiea Harvey. Bowiesia Grev. = 



Delissea Lamx. 

 Bowles, George, or Bowie (fl. 1604-50) : b. Chislehurst, Kent, 



1604 ?. M.D. Leyden, 1640; P.E.C.P., 1664. First 



found Impatiens Noli-me-tangere, Ger. emac., 446. Pult. i. 



136; Parkinson, 'Theatrum,' 297, 954; How, ' Phytologia ; ' 

 Ger. emac., pref. and passim. Munk, i. 332. 

 Bowles, WiUiam (1705-80) : b. near Cork, 1705 ; d. Madrid, 

 25 Aug., 1780. Travelled in France and Spain from 1740. 

 ' Introducion a la historia natural . . . de Espana,' 1775. 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 69. Bowiesia Euiz & Pavon. 

 Bowman, David (1838-68) : b. Arniston, Edinburgh, 3 Sept., 



