12 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OP 



Barton, John (fl. 1812-30). Of Chichester. Brother of Bernard 

 Barton. ' Lecture on the Geography of Plants,' 1827. Pritz. 

 15 ; Jacks. 221 ; E. S. C. i. 200. 



Barton, Rev. William (1754?-1829) : b. Preston, Lane, 1754?; 

 d. Lytham, Lane, 21 March, 1829. M.D. Edin.; B.A. 

 Camb., 1795. Incumbent of Samlesbury, Lango, and 

 Great Harwood. " An accurate naturalist, botanist, poet." 

 Whittle, Hist. Preston, ii. 272. 



Bartram, John (1699-1777) :tb. Marple, Co. Delaware, Penn., 

 23 March, 1699 ; d. 1777. " King's botanist in America," 1765. 

 " The greatest natural botanist in the world," Linnaeus. Cor- 

 respondent of Sloane, Hill, Ellis, and Collinson, Phil. Trans. 

 1740-1763. Pritz. 15; Medical & Phys. Journ. i. (1804), 

 115 ; Memorials, by W. Darlington, 1849. Friends' Books, i. 

 201. Loudon, ' Arboretum,' 85. Bartramia Hedw. 



Baskerville, Thomas (1812-1840) : b. 26 April, 1812 ; d. Lon- 

 don, 1840 (?). M.E.C.S., 1835. Practised at Canterbury. 

 ' Affinities of Plants,' 1839. Pritz. 16 ; Jacks. 17 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. iii. 369. Baskervilla Lindl. 



Bateman, Rev. John (fl. 1665 ?-1700) : b. Sittingbourne, Kent, 

 1666?. B.A. Oxon, 1687; M.A., 1690. MS. List of Eaver- 

 sham plants, Hb. Sloane, 317. Pult. ii. 272 ; Jacob, ' Plantse 

 Eavershamienses. ' 



Bauchop, J. C. (fl. 1840). Of Edinburgh. Wrote botany 

 of Borrowstounness, Linlithgow, for Stat. Ace. Scotl. 



Bauer, Ferdinand (1760-1826) : b. Eeldsberg, Austria, 20 Jan., 

 1760; d. Hietzing, Vienna, 17 March, 1826. Accom- 

 panied Sibthorp to Greece, 1784. Elinders' Expedition, 

 1801-5. ' Ilustrationes Florae Novae HoUandiae,' 1818. 

 Lambert's ' Pinus,' 1810-87. Lindley's ' Digitalis.' Pritz. 

 17 ; Jacks. 398 ; Nich. lUust. vi. 888 ; Ann. & Mag. iv. (1840), 

 67 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 1839, 89 ; Journ. Bot. 1843, 106. 



Bauer, Francis (1758-1840): b. Eeldsberg, Austria, 4 Oct., 

 1758; d. Kew, 11 Dec, 1840; bur. Kew. Brother of pre- - 

 ceding. E.L.S., 1804; E.E.S., 1820. Came to England, 

 1788. Employed as artist by Banks. 'Delineations of 

 Exotic Plants ' . . . , 1796. ' StreUtzia depieta,' 1818. 

 ' Ergot,' Linn. Trans. 1840. Drawings of both Bauers in 

 Dept. Bot. Brit. Mus. Pritz. 17 ; Jacks. 519 ; Gard. Chron. 

 1841, 22; Bot. Eeg. 1841, p. 85. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 1841, 

 101 ; Proc. Eoy. Soc. iv. (1843), 342 ; Ann. & Mag. v. 1840, 

 47 ; vii. 1841, 77, 489. Portr. at Kew. Bauera Banks ex 

 Andr. Bot. Eep. (after the brothers). 



Baxter, William (1787-1871) : b. Eugby, Warwick, 16 Jan., 

 1787; d. Oxford, 1 Nov., 187L A.L.S., 1817. Curator, Oxford 

 Bot. Garden, 1813-51. 'British Phaenogamous Botany,' 

 1834-43. ' Stirpes CryptOgamicae Oxonienses,' 1825. 

 Plants in Oxford Herbarium. Pritz. 18 ; Jacks. 235 ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1871, 380 ; Gard. Chron. 1871, 1426 ; Loud. Gard. Mag. 

 X. (1834), 110 ; Druce, ' Flora of Oxfordshire,' 392 ; Fl. War- 

 wicksh. 498 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 488. Engr. at Kew, by J. 

 Whessell, from drawing by A. Burt. 



