46 BIOGKAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) : b. Blston Hall, Notts., 12 

 Dec, 1731 ; d. Derby,-"18 April, 1802. M.B. Camb., 1755; 

 M.D. Edin. ; F.E.S. ; F.L.S., 1792. Grandfather of the 

 preceding. Poet. Practised at Lichfield till 1781 ; then at 

 Derby. ' Botanic Garden,' 1781. ' Phytologia," 1801. Trans- 

 lated Linnaeus's ' Systema VegetabiUum ' as a ' System of 

 Vegetables ' (1783), and his Genera and Mantissas as ' The 

 Families of Plants,' 1787. Pritz. 76 ; Jacks. 537 ; Memoirs 

 by Miss Seward, 1804 ; Life by Charles Darwin, 1879 ; Nich. 

 Anecd. ix. 75 ; Felton, 164 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 43 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xiv. 84. Portr. in Thornton's Botany ; one by Wright, 

 1770 ; photo'd in Life by Charles Darwin, 1879 ; one by S. 

 J. Arnold, engr. by B. Pym, 1801. Wedgwood medallion ; 

 one at Kew. Darwinia Eudge. Darwinia Denstait^ Litsaa 

 Juss. 



Darwin, Robert Waring (1724-1816) : b. Newark, 1724 ; d. 

 Blston, 1816. M.D. Leyden, 1784. Uncle of the above- 

 mentioned. ' Principia Botanica,' 1787, ed. 2, 1807 ; ed. 3, 

 1810. Pritz. 76 ; Jacks. 637. 



Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle (1795-1867): b. Stratton, 

 Gloucestershire, 11 Feb., 1795 ; d. Oxford, 13 Dec, 1867 ; 

 bur. Magdalen College. M.A. Oxon, 1817 ; M.D., 1821 ; 

 F.L.S., 1830; F.E.C.P., 1822 ; F.E.S., 1822. Prof. Chemistrj', 

 Oxford, 1822 ; of Botany, 1834. ' Action of Light on Plants,' 

 Phil. Trans. 1836. ' Eoman Husbandry,' 1857. ' Trees of 

 the Ancients,' 1865. 'Miscellanies,' 1867. Pritz. 77; 

 Jacks. 537 ; E. S. C. ii. 155 ; vii. 488 ; Joufn. Bot. 1868, 22 ; 

 Gard. Chron. 1867, 1294 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. ix. 267 ; Proc 

 Linn. Soc. 1867-8, ci. ; Proc. Eoy. Soc. xvii., Ixxiv. ; Munk, 

 iii. 254 ; Joum. Hort. xiii. (1867) 462 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 

 94. Oil portr. at Oxford Bot. Garden. Daubenya Lindl. 



Davall, Edmund (1763-98) : b. in England, 1763 ; d. Orbe, 

 Switzerland, 26 Sept., 1798. F.L.S. Lived in Switzerland 

 from 1788. Correspondent of Smith. Left incomplete 

 ' Illustrations of Swiss Plants.' PI. in Smith's Herbarium, 

 Annals of Bot. i. (1805), 576. Eees ; Pritz. 77 ; Smith Lett, 

 ii. 1-4, 70, &c. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 99. Davallia Sm. 



Davies, George (1884-92): b. Brighton, 12 Feb., 1834; d. 

 Brighton, 6 April, 1892. Bryologist. List of Mosses in 

 Erridge's ' Hist, of Brighton,' 1862 ; contrib. to Grevillea 

 (1874 and 1876). Moss herbarium in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 E. S. C. ix. 648 ; Journ. Bot. 1892, 288. 



Davies, Rev. Hugh (1739 ?-1821) : b. Anglesey, 1739 ? ; d. 

 Beaumaris, 16 Feb. 1821. M.A. Cantab, 1763. Eector of 

 Aber. F.L.S., 1790. Friend of Hudson. ' Welsh Botan- 

 ology,' 1813. Contributed to ' Flora Anglica,' ' Flora Britan- 

 nica,' and ' Eng. Bot.' Herbarium in Mus. Brit. Pritz 

 77 ; Jacks. 247 ; E. S. C. ii. 166 ; Bot. Guide, i. ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xiv. 138. Daviesia Sm. 



Davies, Rev. John (circ. 1570-1644) : b. Llanrhaiadar, Den- 

 bigh, c. 1570 ; d. Mallwyd, Merioneth, 15 May, 1644 ; bur. 

 in Mallwyd Church. D.D. Oxon, 1616. Eector of Mallwyd, 



