BEITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. M 



' ' In herbis decernendis peritus ' ' (inscription on his tombstone) . 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 439. 



Baines, Thomas (1822-75) : b. King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1822 ; 

 d. Durban, Natal, 8 May, 1875. F.E.G.S. To Cape Colony, 

 1842. Artist in Kafir War, 1848-51 ; in N.W. Australia in 

 1855 ; to Zambesi Expedition, 1858, &c. African plants at 

 Kew. Jacks. 408 ; E. S. C. i. 161 ; Biog. sketch in his ' Ex- 

 plorations in S.W. Africa,' 1864; Proc. E. Geog. Soc. xx. 

 289 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 441. Vignette photo, at Kew. Mollugo 

 Sainesii Oliv. 



Baker, H. C. (fl. 1836). Captain, Bengal Artillery. ' List of 

 specimens of wood from India,' 1886. Pritz. 12. 



Baker, Henry (1698-1774) : b. Chancery Lane, London, 8 May, 

 1698; d. Strand, London, 25 Nov. 1774. E.E.S., 1740. 

 Introduced Bheum pahnatmn. Hb. Sloane, 152, 252 ; Nich. 

 Anecd. v. 172 ; Nich. Illust. iv. 762 ; Biog. Britann. i. 526. 

 Sloane MSS. 4435, 4436 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 10. 



Baker, Anne Elizabeth (1786-1861) : b. Northampton (?), 16 

 June, 1786 ; d. Northampton, 22 April, 1861. List of plants 

 in her brother George Baker's Hist. Northamptonshire, i. 3. 

 Gent. Mag. cexi. 208 ; Quarterly Eev. ei. 6 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 iii. 1. 



Baker, Robert (1824 ?-85) : d. Leamington, 1885. M.D. Prac- 

 tised in Birmingham and afterwards in Leamington. ' Cat. 

 Warwickshire Plants ' (w. J. E. Young) in Proc. Warw. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. 1874. El. Warwickshire, 507. 



Baker, Rev. William Lloyd (fi. 1798). F.L.S., 1798. Of 

 Stout's Hill, Gloucester. Discovered Cephalanthera rubra. 

 Sowerby Letters in Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus. Contrib. to E. 

 B., 68, 488, 550, &e. Oil-portrait at Hardwicke, Glou- 



Bakewell, Robert (1768-1843) : b. 1768 ; d. Downshire Hill, 

 Hampstead, 15 Aug. 1848. Geologist. ' Pollen,' Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. ii. 1. E. S. C. i. 167 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 28. 



Balfour, Sir Andrew (1680-94) : b. Denmiln, Eife, 18 Jan., 

 1680 ; d. London, 10 Jan., 1694. M.D. Caen, 1661. Eounded 

 Edinburgh Bot. Garden, c. 1680. Pult. ii. 3 ; ' Memoria 

 Balfouriana,' by Sir Eobert Sibbald, 1699; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 iii. 48. Balfouria E. Brown. 



Balfour, John Hutton (1808-84) : b. Edinburgh, 15 Sept., 

 1808; d. Edinburgh, 11 Feb., 1884., M.A. and M.D. Edin., 

 1882. E.L.S., 1844. F.E.S. Prof. Bot., Glasgow, 1841; 

 Edinburgh, 1845-1879. Founded Bot. Soc., Edinburgh, 

 1836. ' Flora of Edinburgh,' 1868. ' Manual of Botany,' 

 1848. ' Class-book of Botany,' 1852. Pritz. 13 ; Jacks., 518 ; 

 E. S. C. i. 170 ; vii. 77 ; ix. 108 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-4, 

 80; Gard. Chron. 1884, i. 220; Hist. Berwickshire Nat. 

 Club, xi. 218; E. B., 2918; Diet. Nat. Biog. iii. 56. Bal- 

 fourodendron Mello. Poa Balfourii Parn. 



Ball, Anne E. (fl. 1840). Of Youghal. Algologist. Journ. 

 Bot. 1840, 191. Assisted Harvey in Phye. Brit. (tt. 14, 

 366). Sent Algae to Dublin Univ. Herb. Ballia Harv. 



