BRITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 7 



June, 1871 ; daughter of J. G. Children, of Brit. Mus. Collec- 

 tion of Brit. pi. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Produced 3 vols, of 

 Cyanotype Impressions of Algse (1859). See Proc. Phil. Soc. 

 Glasgow, xxi. 155. Wrote memoir of her father (privately 

 printed). Jacks. 242. 



Atkins, Sarah [see Wilson, Lucy] . 



Atkinson, John (1787-1828): b. Leeds, 29 May, 1787; d. 

 Leeds, 3 Oct., 1828. Surgeon. F.L.S. ; Curator, Leeds 

 Philosoph. Hall. Contrib. list of Leeds plants to Whitaker's 

 ' Loidis and Elmete.' Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 277. 'Leeds 

 Worthies,' 811; E. S. C. i. 109; Whitaker's ' Thoresby,' 76. 

 Oil portrait by Eichmond ; litho. by Denny. 



Atthey, Thomas (1814-80) : b. Kenton, Northumberland, 1814 : 

 d. Gosforth, April, 1880. A.L.S., 1875. Collected Dia- 

 tomacese and plants of Coal-measures. Paper on Diatoms in 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. Collection of Carboniferous fossils in New- 

 castle Museum. Trans. Northumb. & Durham, viii. 88; 

 Journ. Bot. 1880, 224; E. S. C. i. Ill, viii. 55. ix. 80. 

 Attheya T. West. 



Atwood, Rev. E. Marcus (fl. 1858-63). ' Eouen plants.' 

 Phyt. iii. 260; n.s. ; E. S. C. i. 111. 



Atwood, Martha Maria (fl. 1852-60). Of Clifton, Bristol. 

 Contrib. largely to Swete's ' Fl. Bristoliensis ' ; also to Phyt. 

 iv. n.s. Muscologist. Letters in Wilson's Correspondence 

 in Brit. Mus. 



Aubrey, John (1626-97) : b. Easton Perry, Kingston, Wilts., 

 12 March, 1626 ; d. Oxford, June, 1697. F.E.S., 1663. 

 Nephew to Henry Lyte. E. Syn. ed. 3, 131, 439, 445. Biog. 

 by J. Britton, London, 1845. Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 244. 



Aylesford, Countess of [see Finch, Louisa] . 



Ayres, Philip Burnard (d. 1863) : d. St. Louis, Mauritius, 

 1863. Of Thame, Oxon. M.D. Cryptogamist. Contribu- 

 tor to Phytol. Issued 'Mycologia Britannica,' dried speci- 

 mens of Brit. Fungi, 1845 ; plants at Kew. Pritz. 10 ; Phyt. 

 ii. 72 ; E. S. C. i. 129 ; Fl. Maurit. 10. MSS. at Kew. 



Ayrey, James, or Aifey (fl. 1705). Friend of Petiver and Plu- 

 kenet. Vol. of his plants, Hb. Sloane, 74. Pluk. Amalth. 69. 



Babington, Benjamin Guy (1794-1866) : b. Guy's Hospital, 

 London, 1794; d. London, 8 April, 1866. M.D. Cambridge, 

 1830; P.E.S. ; F.E.C.P., 1831. Collected in Mauritius, 

 1811-12 (Trans. Med. Bot. Lond. 1829, appx. 11). Proc. 

 E. S. xvi. 1 ; E. S. C. i. 136 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 311. 



Babington, Rev. Churchill (1821-89) : b. Eoecliffe, Leices- 

 tersh., 11 Mar., 1821; d. Cockfield, Suff., 12 Jan., 1889; 

 bur. Cockfield. F.L.S., 1853; M.A. Cantab., 1843. At Horn- 

 ingsey, Cambridge, 1848-61 ; to Honington, 1866 ; Eector of 

 Cockfield, 1866. Lichenologist. Assisted J. D. Hooker 

 with lichens of ' Flora Antarctica ' and ' Fl. N. Zealand.' 

 Contrib. Leicestersh. plants to 'N. B. G.,' and to Hind's 

 • Fl. Suffolk.' Jacks. 517; E. S. C. i. 139; Ann. Bot. iii. 449 

 (bibliogr.) ; Journ. Bot. 1889, 110. StriguUa BabingtoniiBei'k. 



