18 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OP 



Linn. Soc. i. 172. Pritz. 28 ; Gent. Mag. 1776, xUx. 348 ; 



Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 170. Wedgwood medallion. 

 Blandford, George, Marquis of \_see Spencbb-Chubchill, 



Geobge] . 

 Blane, Sir Gilbert, Bart. (1749-1834) : b. Blanefield, co. Ayr, 



29 Aug., 1749'; d. London, 26 June, 1834. M.D. Glasgow, 



1778. F.R.S. Physician to the fleet. Baronet, 1812. 



' Nardus indica' ; Phil. Trans. 1790, Ixxx. 284. Proc. E. S. 



iii. 303 ; Munk, ii. 325 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 202. Portr. by 



Shee at Eoy. Coll. Physieians. 

 Bligh, William (1753-^1817): b. Tinten, Cornwall?, 1753-4; 



d. London, 7 Dec., 1817; bur. Lambeth Churchyard. 



Captain of 'Bounty.' Introd. bread-fruit to W. Indies. 



Admiral, 1811. F.E.S. 1801. Governor of New South 



Wales, 1805. Sent some hundreds of plants from B. & W. 



Indies to Kew. Ann. Bot. ii. 570 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 219. 



Blighia Koenig. 

 Blinkworth, Richard (fl. 1830). Collected at Kumaon. Cor- 

 respondent of WaUieh. Blinkworthia Choisy. 

 Bloxam, Rev. Andrew (1801-78) : b. Eugby, 22 Sept., 1801 ; 



d. Harborough Magna, Leicester, 2 Feb., 1878. Eector of 



Twycross, Leicestershire, and afterwards of Harborough. 



Visited S. America as naturalist to the ' Blonde,' 1824-5 



(Mag. Nat. Hist. 1831, 145). 'Bot. of Twycross,' Phyt. 



' Bot. of Chamwood Forest,' w. Ch. Babington, in Potter's 



History. E. B. 2854, 2944. Critical in Bubi and Fungi. 



Fungi and MSS. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Jacks. 523 ; Jdum. 



Bot. 1878, 96 ; Gard. Chron. 1878, i. 311 ; Fl. Warwicksh. 

 501 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 264. Water-colour by Turner of 

 him and brothers at funeral of their uncle. Sir T. Lawrence, 

 in Nat. Gallery. 

 Bobart, or Bobert, Jacob (1597-8-9-1680) : b. Brunswick, 

 1597-8-9; d. Oxford, 4 Feb., 1680; bur. St. Peter' s-in-the- 

 East, Oxford. Father of following. Superintendent, Oxford 

 Bot. Gard., 1632. 'Catalogus . . . Oxoniensis,' 1648, 2nd 

 ed., with Stephens and Browne, 1658. Pult. i. 312 ; Jacks. 

 415; Pritz. 30; Biog. Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884; 

 Felton, 108; Journ. Hort. 1876, 364, with portr.; Wood, 

 Fasti, ii. 189 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. v. 285. OU portr. by D. 

 Loggan, 1675, at Linn. Soc. ; engr. by Burghers ; engr. at 

 Kew. Bobartia L. 

 Bobart, Jacob (1640-1-1719): b. Oxford, 2 Aug., 1641; d. 

 Oxford, 28 Dec, 1719 ; bur. St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford. 

 Succeeded preceding in 1680 as Superintendent of Bot. 

 Gard., and in 1684, after Morison, Prof. Bot. Oxford. Pub- 

 lished Morison's ' Historia,' vol. iii. 1699. Herbarium in 12 

 vols, at the Bot. Garden, Oxford. Pult. i. 312 ; Biog. 

 Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884; Grey's Hudibras ; Eich. 

 Corr: 10, 152; Nieh. Illustr. i. 342, 357, 361; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. V. 286. Oil portr. at Oxford Bot. Gard. Engr. in 

 ' Oxford Almanack,' 1719. Bobartia L. 

 Bohler, John (1796-1872) : b. South Wingfield, Derbyshire, 31 



