24 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



1725, ed. ii. 1730. 'Nat. Hist. Vegetables 1763. Jacks. 

 33 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 436. 



Brookshaw, George (fl. 1812). Artist. ' Pomona Britannica,' 

 1812. Some plates are stated to be by the next. Pritz. 42. 



Brookshaw, Richard (fl. 1736-1804) : b. circ. 1736 ; d. circ. 

 1804. Artist. ' Pomona Britannica,' 1804. Eedgrave's 

 Diet, of Artists, 1878 ; Bryan ; Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 440. 



Broome, Christopher Edmund (1812-86) : b. Berkhampstead, 

 Herts, 24 July, 1812; d. Holborn, 15 Nov. 1886. M.A. 

 Camb., 1836. P.L.S., 1866. Mycologist. Herbarium in Mus. 

 Brit. Pritz. 42 ; Journ. Bot. 1887, 148 ; E. S. C. i. 655, vii. 

 274, ix. 366 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1886-7, 34. Broomeia Berk. 



Broughton, Arthur (d. 1796 or 1803 ?) ; d. Jamaica, 1796 or 

 1803? Of Bristol. M.D. Edin., 1779. 'Enchiridion 

 Botanicum,' 1782. ' Hortus Eastensis,' 1792. ' Cat. of the 

 . . . Bot. Garden of Liguanea,' 1794. Herb, in City Library, 

 King Street, Bristol. Pritz. 42 ; Jacks. 527 ; Baillon, i. 499 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. vi. 459. Broughtonia E. Br. 



Brown (e ?), Alexander (fl. 1700). Surgeon in E. Indies. 

 Correspondent of Plukenet. Discovered new plants in East 

 Indies and at the Cape. Pult. ii. 62-3 ; Pritz. 44 ; Pluk. 

 Mant. 69. Eriocephalos Bruniades Pluk. = Brunia L. 



Brown, George Dransfield (c. 1828-85) : b. circ. 1828 ; d. 

 Eahng, Middlesex, 17 July, 1885. M.E.C.S. P.L.S., 1876. 

 Practised at Baling. Microscopist and cryptogamist. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1883-6, 138. 



Brown, John (d. 1851) : d. Boston, 30 Jan. 1851. M.D. Of 

 Boston, Lincolnshire. F.L.S., 1826. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 132. 



Brown, John (d. 1878) : d. Edinburgh, July, 1873. Sec. Edin. 

 Nat. Field Club. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xi. 427, 470 ; xii. 

 19 ; E. S. C. vii. 278. 



Brown, John William (1834-59) : b. Otley, Yorks., 1834 ; d. 

 Otley, 19 Aug., 1859. Had a herbarium. Parkinson's ' Lays 

 and Leaves of the Forest,' 252. ' Leeds Mercury,' 18 May, 

 1889. 



Brown, John Wright (1836-63) : b. Edinburgh, 19 Jan. 1836 ; 

 d. Edinburgh, 23 March, 1863. Assistant in Edinburgh 

 Herbarium. Associate Bot. Soc. Edin. ' List of Plants in 

 Elie, Fife,' in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii. 519. Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. vii. 21. 



Brown, Rev. Littleton (b. 1699) : b. Bishop's Castle, Salop, 

 1699. M.A. Oxon, 1722 ; F.E.S. Of Shropshire. "An in- 

 genious young clergyman," Dillenius, 'Historia Muscorum.' 

 Letters to Dillenius and plants in Oxford Bot. Card. Library 

 and Herbarium. Eich. Corr. 233; Linn. Corr., ii. 145. 



Brown, P. J. (d. 1842) : d. Thun, Switzerland, 1842. Colonel. 

 Lived at Eichenbiihl, Thun, from 1822-1842. P.B.S.Ed., 

 1838. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1833, 469; Catalogue des pi. de 

 Thoune, 1843. Pritz. 43 ; Jacks. 344 ; E. S. C. i. 659. 



Brown (Peter), (fl. 1770-91). Flower painter. Exhibited at 

 Eoyal Academy, 1770-91. Botanical Painter to Prince of 

 "Wales. Dryander, ii. 19. 



