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1604. Canon of St. Asaph, 1617. Welsh lexicographer. 

 ' Antiquae linguae Britannicse et . . . Latinee Dictionarium,' 

 including ' Botanologium,' 1632. Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 144. 



Davy, David Elisha (fl. 1805). Of Ufford and Yoxford, Suff. 

 Contrib. to Bot. Guide. MS. lists of plants in Brit. Mus. 

 Library. Hind, PL, Suff., 481. 



Davyes, Robert (1684-1728) : b. 1684; d. 22 May, 1728. Of 

 Guissancy, Flintshire. Antiquary. Catalogue of British 

 names of plants in Johnson's Gerard. Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 

 154. Monument in Mold Church. 



Dawes, John Samuel (1802-78): b. Birmingham, 1802; d. 

 Bdgbaston, 20 Dec, 1878. Ironmaster. F.G.S., 1842. 

 ' Sternbergia,' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1845; ' Kalonia,.' ib. 

 1848 ; ' Calamites,' ib. 1849-51. Proc. Geol. Soc. 1878-9. 



Dawson, — (fl. 1750). Of Leeds. Surgeon and Apothecary. 

 " Eminent for knowledge of Pay's botanical system." 



Day, John (d. 1888). Orchid cultivator. Made large collec- 

 tion of drawings of Orchids. Collected ferns in Perak. 

 Helped in Veitch's Man. Orchidaceous Plants. Specimens 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. Gard. Chron. 1888, iii. 88 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1887, 323. NephrodiumDayi BeiA. 



Deakin, Richard (d. 1873) : d. Tunbridge Wells, 18 Feb., 1873. 

 M.D. Practised at Sheffield. ' Florigraphia Britannica,' 

 1837-48 (re-issue, 1867). 'Flora of Colosseum,' 1855. 

 'Flowering Plants of Tunbridge,' 1871. Pritz. 77; Jacks. 

 537 ; E. S. C. ii. 185 ; vii. 600 ; Journ. Bot. 1873,. 128. 



Dean, William (fl. 1824). 'Botanic Gardener' to Earl of 

 Coventry. ' Hortus Croomensis,' 1824. 



Dede, James (fl. 1809). ' The Bnghsh Botanist's Pocket Com- 

 panion,' 1809. Jacks. 36. 



Deering, George Charles (1695 ?-1749) : b. in Saxony, 1695 ?; 

 d. Nottingham, 12 April, 1749 ; bur. St. Peter's Churchyard, 

 Nottingham. M.D., Leyden and Eheims. At Leyden, 1708- 

 11. Pupil of Boerhaave and Bernard de Jussieu. Member 

 of Bot. Soc. Lond. 1721-26. Practised at Nottingham from 

 1736. ' Catalogue . . . Nottingham,' 1738. Assisted Dille- 

 nius in 'Historia Muscorum." Herbarium bought by Hon. 

 Eothwell Willughby. Pult. ii. 267 ; Pritz. 78 ; Jacks. 257 ; 

 Nich. lUust. i. 211, 220 ; iii. 671 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 279. 

 Deeringia Br. 



Delany, Mary, nee G-ranville, formerly Pendarves (1700- 

 88) : b. Coulton, Wilts, 14 May, 1700 ; d. St. James' Place, 

 Westminster, 16 April, 1788; bur. St. James', Westminster; 

 m. 1, Alexander Pendarves ; m. 2, Eev. Patrick Delany, 

 Dean of Down. Executed a Herbal in 9 vols, folio, of 100 

 plates each, in coloured papers, having "the exactness of 

 Botany," 1778. Pritz. 78; Jacks. 44; Autobiog. 1861-2; 

 W. Gilpin, ' Picturesque Beauty,' ii. 190 ; Nich. Anecd. iv. 

 715 ; Gent. Mag. Iviii. 371, 462 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 308. 

 Portr. by Opie at Hampton Court. 



Denham, Dixon (1786-1828) : b. London, 1 Jan., 1786; d. Free 

 Town, Sierra Leone, 8 May, 1828. Lieut. -col. African 



