6 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



my Botanical . . . Friends,' 1865. Had a herbarium. 

 Friends' Books, i. 131 ; Hall, ' Flora of Liverpool,' vii., 

 and appendix ; E. S. C. vii. 46. 



Armitage, — (d. before 1840). Treas. Birmingham Bot. and 

 Hort. Soc. Floral Cabinet, iii. 6, 81. Lathyms Armitageanus 

 Kn. and Weste. 



Armstrong, J. (fl. 1840): Kew collector at Port Essington. 

 Plants at Kew. Fl. Tasmania, cxvii. 



Arnold, Joseph (1782-1818) : b. Beccles, 28 Dec, 1782 ; d. 

 Padang, Sumatra, July or Aug., 1818. M.D. Bdin., 1807; 

 E.N. ; F.L.S., 1815. Memoir by Dawson Turner, Ipswich, 

 1849 ; Linn. Trans, xiii. 201 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 110. CoL 

 medallion portr. Kew. Bafflesia Arnoldi E. Br. 



Arnott, George Arnott Walker (1799-1868) : b. Edinburgh, 

 6 Feb., 1799; d. Glasgow, 17 May, 1868. M.A. Edin., 

 1818; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1837 ; F.L.S., 1825. Eegius Prof. 

 Bot., Glasgow, 1845. 'Botany' in Encycl. Brit., ed. 7. 

 'Ehizophoreffi,' Mag. Zool. Bot. (1838), 359. ' Langsdorffia,' 

 id. (1839), 36. ' British Flora ' (with W. J. Hooker). Herb- 

 arium at Glasgow. Pritz. 9 ; Jacks. 516 ; E. S. C. i. 98 ; vi. 

 568; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. ix. (1868), 414; Gard. Chron. 

 1868, 688 ; Journ. Bot. vi. 223 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1869, 101 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 120. Portr. at Kew. 



Artis, Edmund Tyrrell (fl. 1825). House-steward to Earl 

 Fitzwilliam. ' Antediluvian Phytology,' 1825. Pritz. 9 ; 

 Jacks. 176, 182. 



Arviel, Henry (c. 1280). Eesided at Bologna. 'De Botanica, 

 sive Stirpium Varia Historia.' " Varia itinera susceperat," 

 Haller, i. 219. Pult. i. 22 ; Tanner, Bibl. Brit. Hib. 



Ascham, Rev. Anthony (fl. 1550). Physician. Vicar of 

 Burniston, near Bedale, Yorkshire. ' A Little Herbal,' 

 1550. Pult. i. 50-1 ; Pritz. 9 ; Jacks. 25 ; Baker, ' Fathers 

 of Yorkshire Botany ' ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 149. Portr. 

 engr. Cooper. Aschamia Salisb. = Hippeastrum (in part.) 



Ashby, John (1754 ?-1828) : b. 1754 ? ; d. Bungay, 24 Nov., 

 1828. Grocer and draper. Of Bungay. Contributor to 

 Smith's ' Flora Britannica,' and to Bot. Guide (547). Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ii. (1829), 120. 



Ashfield' Charles Joseph (fl. 1858-68). Of Preston, Lan- 

 cashire: N. Lancashire plants in Phyt. v. vi., n.s., and 

 in Bot. Chronicle. Herbarium in Preston. E. S. C. i. 107 ; 

 vii. 53. 



Ashley, W. H. (fl. 1850). M.D. Of London. Botanised in 

 Devonshire before 1851. Halle's 'Letters,' pref. 



Ashmole, Elias (1617-92): b. Lichfield, 23 May, 1617; d. 

 Lambeth, 26 May, 1692. Hon. M.D. Oxon., 1669. F.E.S. 

 1661. "Windsor Herald, 1660. Took up study of plants in 

 1648. ' Life.' Mag. Nat. Hist. n.s. i. 272 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 

 269 ; Ath. Oxon. iii. 354 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ii. 172. ' 



Atkins, George (d. in or before 1862). M.D. Of Hull. Had a 

 large general herbarium. 



Atkins, Anna, nSe Childebn (d. 1871) : d. Halstead, Kent, 



