10 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Ball, John (1818-89) : b. Dublin, 20 Aug., 1818; d. S. Kensing- 

 ton, 21 Oct., 1889 ; bur. Catholic Churchyard, Fulham. 

 F.L.S., 1856; F.E.S., 1868. M.P. for Carlow, 1852. Under- 

 Seo. of State for Colonies, 1855. 1st Pres. Alpine Club, 

 1858-60. 'Alpine Guide,' 1860-65. With J. D. Hooker in 

 Morocco, 1871. ' Spicilegium Florae Maroccanae,' Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvi. ' Notes of a Naturalist in South America,' 

 1887. E. B. 2914, 2971. Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 518 ; E. S. C. i. 

 171 ; vii. 78 ; ix. 109 ; Journ. Bot. 1889, 365 ; Proc. E. Soc. 

 xlvii. V. ; Ann. Bot. iii. 450 (bibliogr.). 



Ballard, — (fl. 1787). Of Malvern. Surgeon. Contrib. to Wither- 

 ing, ed. 2 (pref. xi.). Lees, Bot. of Worcester, Ixxxviii. 



Balls, Matthew (fl. 1869). Of Hitchin and Hertford. Phyt. 

 n.s. ii. (1869), 202; Pryor, 'Flora of Hertfordshire,' xlvii. 



Banckes, Richarde (fl. 1526). ?B.A. Oxon., 1515. "Here 

 begynnyth a new Mater ye vyhiohe sheweth .... Vertues 

 and Properties of Herbes," London, 1526. Jacks. 23. 



Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel (1772-1842) : b. London, 1772 ; 

 d. Kingston, Jamaica, 18 Sept., 1842 ; bur. Kingston 

 Cathedral. M.B. Camb., 1794. Physician to Forces. M.D., 

 1804; F.E.C.P., 1806. In Jamaica from 1811. ' Cuichun- 

 chulli,' Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 277. " A zealous cultivator of 

 botany," Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, i. 112. E. S. C. i. 75; 

 Munk, iii. 31 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 106. Bancroftia Mac- 

 fadyen. 



Banister, Rev. John (d. 1692 or 1696?): d. Virginia, U.S.A., 

 1692 or 1696 ?. Missionary in Virginia. Correspondent of 

 Eay, Lister, and Compton. 'Cat. of PI. observed in N. 

 America,' in Eay, Hist. PI. ii. ' Herbarium Virginianum,' 

 1767. Previously at Oxford, Phil. Trans, xxviii. 1713, 188. 

 Letters in Sloans MSS. Herb. Sloane, 568. Pult. ii. 55-7 ; 

 Pritz. 13; Phil. Trans, xvi. 667; Eay, 'Hist. PL' ii. 1928; 

 Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 44; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 119. Banis- 

 ter ia Houston. 



Bankes, J. (d. c. 1866). Of Plymouth. Had a herbarium. 

 Keys, Fl. Dev. and Cornv?.,. pref. 



Banks, George (fl. 1823-32) : d. Devonport. F.L.S., 1824. 

 Silversmith and engraver. Lecturer on Botany at Devonport. 

 ' Introduction to ... . English Botany,' 1823 (plates by 

 author). 'Indigenous Flora of London and Plymouth,' in 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1829, 265. ' Plymouth and Devonport Flora," 

 1830-2. Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 234, 258. 



Banks, Sir Joseph (1743-1820) : b. London, 13 Feb., 1743; d. 

 Spring Grove, Isleworth, Middlesex, 19 June, 1820. M.A. 

 Oxon, 1763; F.E.S., 1766; P.E.S., 1778; D.C.L. Oxon, 

 1771 ; Bart., 1781 ; K.C.B., 1795. Eound the world with 

 Cook, 1768-71 ; to Iceland with Solander, 1772. Purchased 

 Cliffort's Herbarium. Herbarium and library in Brit. Mus. 

 Pritz. 13 ; Jacks. 518 ; Lives by Duncan, Brougham, &c. ; 

 Gent. Mag. 1820, i. 574, 637; ii. 86; Nich. Anec. vii. 20, 

 509 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 169 ; Felton, 181 ; B. G. 385 ; Linn. 

 Corr. ii. 574-580; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 129. Portr. at 



