48 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Traveller. In Africa with Clapperton and Oudney from 

 1822-25. ' Narrative of Travels . . . in . . . Central Africa, 

 1826, with an 'Appendix of Natural History.' Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xiv. 341. Denhamia Schott = Calcasia. 



Dennes, George Edgar (fl. 1838-50); F.L.S., 1838. Sec. 

 Bot. Soc. Lond. 1839. Solicitor. Editor, ' London Cat. 

 British Plants ' (ed. 1). Phytol. i. 1014, 1098 (1844) ; ii. 815 ; 

 Proc. Bot. Soc. Lond. Vicia Dennesiana Wats. 



Denny, Henry (1808-71) : b. Norwich ?, 1803 ; d. Leeds, 

 7 March, 1871. Entomologist. Curator of Leeds Museum. 

 Sent list of Leeds plants to Watson for New Bot. Guide 

 (p. 274). Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 374. 



Denson, John (fl. 1822-38) : d. 1874. A.L.S. Curator, Bot. 

 Gard. Bury St. Edmunds. Did the botanical part of Lou- 

 don's ' Arboretum,' ' Arboretum,' p. viii, and ' 1st additional 

 supplement ' (1832), to Loudon's ' Herb. Brit.' Bot. Mag. 

 2422. Cat. Bot. Gard. Bury St. Edmunds, 1822. Jacks. 409 ; 

 E. S. C. ii. 240. 



Dent, Peter (d. 1689): b. Cambridge?; d. Cambridge, 1689; 

 bur. St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge, 5 Oct. Physician and 

 Apothecary. M.B. Lambeth, 1678 ; Cambridge, 1680. 

 Eriend of Bay. Assisted in the ' Historia.' Eay Hist. i. 

 856. Discovered Papaver dubium. Pult. i. 200 ; Pryor, 

 Flora Herts. 1. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 378. 



Devrhurst, John (fl. 1810-35). Eustian-maker. Of Manchester. 

 President of Lancashire Botanists, 1810-35. Cash, 16. 



Dick, Robert (1811-66) : b. Tullybody, Clackmannanshire, Jan. 

 1811 ; d. Thurso, 24 Dec. 1866 ; bur. same place. Baker. 

 Eediscovered Hierochloe borealis. Herbarimn at Free 

 Library, Thurso. Cash, 170 ; Life by S. Smiles, with portr. ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 16. 



Dickenson, Rev. Samuel (fl. 1735-99): LL.B. Camb., 1755. 

 Eector of Blymhill, Staffordshire. Correspondent of Wither- 

 ing, and contributed notes on Agrostis, &c., to 3rd ed. of his 

 ' Arrangement,' With. Arr. 3rd ed., preface. Contributed 

 list of plants to Shaw's Hist, of Staffordshire. Letters in 

 Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. 



Dickie, George (1812-82): b. Aberdeen, 23 Nov., 1812; d. 

 Aberdeen, 15 July, 1882. M.A. Aberdeen, 1830 ; M.E.C.S. 

 Lond., 1834; M.D. Aberd., 1842; F.L.S., 1863; F.E.S., 

 1881. Algologist. Lecturer on Bot. King's Coll., Aberd., 

 1839. Prof. Nat. Hist. Belfast, 1849. Prof. Bot. Aberdeen, 

 1860-77. ' Flora Aberdonensis,' 1839. ' Botanist's Guide 

 to . . . Aberdeen . . .' 1860. ' Flora of Ulster," 1864. Algee 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pritz. 82 ; Jacks. 539 ; E. S. C. ii. 283 ; 

 vii. 531; ix. 696; Journ. Bot. 1883, 30; N.B.G., 489; Top. 

 Bot. ed. i. 522 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1839 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1882-3, 40 ; Stewart and Corry, El. N.E. Ireland, xx. ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. XV. 82. DicMeia Berkl. & Ealfs. 



Dickinson, John (fl. 1699). Sent plants from Bermuda to 

 Petiver. Journ. Bot. 1881, 258. 



Dickinson, Joseph (d. 1865) : d. Liverpool, 21 or 26 July, 1865. 



