44 BIOGEAPHICAIi INDEX OF 



Dale, Samuel (1659-1739) : b. Whitechapel ? 1659 ; d. Bocking, 

 Essex, 6 June, 1739 ; bur. Dissenters' burial-ground, Beck- 

 ing. Apothecary and Physician. Practised at Braintree. 

 Friend and executor of Ray, correspondent of Sloane (Sloane 

 MSS., 4042). ' Pharmacologia,' 1693; Supplement, 1705; 

 'History of Harwich,' 1730; Contributed to Phil. Trans. 

 1692-1736. Herbarium bequeathed to Apothecaries' Com- 

 pany, now in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pult. ii. 122 ; Eees ; Pritz. 

 75; Jacks. 199, 200; Semple, 63 ; Gibson, Fl. of Essex, 446 ; 

 Joum. Bot. 1883, 193, 225; Gent. Mag. 1739, 327; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xiii. 385. Oil portr. at Apothecaries' Hall, 

 engrav. by G. Vertue in ' Pharmacologia,' ed. 3, 1737, 

 autotyped in Joum. Bot. 1883 ; copy at Kew. Dalea Brown 

 =Eupatorium Dalea L. Dalea L. 



Dalton Rev. James (1765 7-1843) : b. 1765?; d. Croft, York- 

 shire, 2 Jan., 1843. M.A. Camb., 1790; Eector of Croft, 

 1805 ; F.L.S., 1801. Contributed to E. Bot. Studied 

 Carices and Mosses. Discovered Scheuchzeria. Pritz. 75 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 172 ; Ann. Bot. ii. 197 ; B.G., 663. Dal- 

 tonia Hook. & Tayl. 



Dalton, John (1766-1844) : b. Eaglesfield, nr. Cockermouth, 6 

 Sept., 1766 ; d. Manchester, 28 July, 1844 ; bur. Ardwick 

 Cemetery, Manchester. LL.D., Edin., 1834 ; D.C.L. Oxon, 

 1832; F.E.S., 1822. Chemist. Pupil of John Gough. 

 Herbarium at Manchester PubUc Library. Memoirs by E. 

 Angus Smith, w. portr. engr. after AUen ; ' Worthies of 

 Cumberland,' by H. Lonsdale, 1874; Mem. Manchester Lit. 

 PhU. Soc. 1856 ; and, w. portr., by Dr. W, C. Henry, 1854; 

 'Annual Monitor,' 1845; 'Friends' Books, i. 506; R.S.C., 

 ii. 122 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 429 ; Portr. by AUen, 1814, at 

 Manchester Phil. Soc. Marble statue by Chantrey at Man- 

 chester Eoy. Instit., and bronze copy at Eoyal Infirmary. 



Dalzell, Nicol Alexander (1817-78) : b. Edinburgh, 21 April, 

 1817; d. Edinburgh, Jan., 1878. M.A. Edin., 1837 ; F.B.S. 

 Ed., 1836. In India, 1841-1870. Conservator of Forests, 

 Bombay. ' Bombay Flora ' (w. A. Gibson), 1861. Con- 

 tributed to Linn. Trans. ; Journ. Bot. 1850-1857 ; Proc. 

 Bot. Soc. Ed., &c. Plants at Kew. Pritz. 75 ; Jacks. 387, 

 390, 392; E.S.C. ii. 135; vii. 479; Athenaeum, 1878, 162; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 448. Dalzellia Hook. = Cyanotis. 



Dampier, William (1652-1715) : b. East Coker, Yeovil, 1652 ; 

 d. London, Mar., 1715. Circumnavigator., Collected in 

 Brazil, Australia, Timor, New Guinea, &c. ' New Voyage 

 round the World' (1697). Plants in Brit. Mus. (Herb. 

 Sloane, 93, 94) and at Oxford. Pritz. 75 ; Eees ; Eay's 

 Hist. Plant, iii. (Suppl.) 225 ; Lasegue, 360 ; ' Life,' Edin- 

 burgh Cabinet Library, vol. v., 1830 ; ' Early English 

 Voyagers,' 1886 ; Biography by W. C. Eussell, 1889 ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1873, 348 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 2. Portr. by T. Murray 

 in Nat. Portr. Gallery. Dampiera Br. 



Dancer, Thomas (1755 ?-1811) : b. 1755 ? ; d. Kingston, 

 Jamaica, 1 Aug., 1811. M.D. Succeeded Dr. Clark as 



