4 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OP 



cum Edinburgense,' 1753. Pult. ii. 9-17; Eees; Pritz. 5; 

 Gent. Mag. 1760, 594 ; Jacks. 16, 32, 411 ; Eich. Corr. 275 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 346. Alstonia Linn. fil. 



Amherst, Lady Sarah Elizabeth [see Williams]. 



Anderson, Alexander (d. 1811) : d. St. Vincent, W. Indies, 8 

 Sept., 1811. M.D. ; F.L.S., 1808. In America from 1775. 

 Curator, St. Vincent Garden, from 1785. In Guiana, 1791. 

 Demerara pi. in Mus. Brit. ; St. Vincent pi. at Kew. Pntz. 

 6 ; Cott. Gard. viii. ; Lambert, ' Pinus,' ii. 14 ; Gard. Mag. i. 

 (1826) 194; Banksian Corresp. 3 May, 1789, and 30 Mar., 

 1796 ; Guilding, ' Account of St. Vincent Garden ' ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. i. 372. Andersonia Br. 



Anderson, George (fl. 1800-17) : d. 10 Jan., 1817. F.L.S., 1800. 

 Of West Ham and Leadenhall Street. 'British Plants,' 

 Linn. Trans, xi. 216. Had a salicetum. Contributed Willows 

 to E. Bot. 2343, &c. Grew Narcissi, Bot. Eeg. t. 123. With 

 J. P. Jones in Devon and Cornwall. Jones, Bot. Tour, viii. 

 E. S. C. i. 63. Salix Andersoniana Sm. 



Anderson, James (1739-1808): b.Hermiston, Edinburgh, 1739; 

 d. Isleworth, 15 Oct., 1808. LL.D. Aberdeen, 1780. Pritz. 

 6 ; Jacks. 34 ; Memoir w. letters and portr. in ' Bee,' ix. 

 (1792); Cott. Gard. v. 1; Gent. Mag. Ixxviii. 1051; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. i. 381. MedaUion by Tassie. 



Anderson, James (d. 1809) : d. Madras, 5 Aug., 1809. Physi- 

 cian to East India Company. M.D. Edin. Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. i. 382. Andersonia Eoxb. = Amoora. 



Anderson, James (d. 1838). Director, Sydney Garden, N.S.W. 

 Friend of the Cunninghams. WooUs, ' Lectures on Veg. 

 Kingdom,' 1879, p. 58. 



Anderson, John (d. 1847) : d. Sydney, 1847. Gardener. Col- 

 lector on H.M.S. ' Adventure,' 1825-1830. Colonial botanist, 

 Sydney, 1836-47. MS. list of Chiloe plants (1829-30) in 

 Bot. Dept. PI. in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fl. Tasm. cxxiii. ; E. S. 

 C. i. 63. 



Anderson, Robert (1838-67). Brother of Thomas Anderson. 

 ' Catalogue of Calcutta Plants,' 1862. 



Anderson, Samuel (d. 1878). F.L.S.,1854.. Of Whitby. Con- 

 tributed to ' Sphagnacese Britanniese Exsiccatse.' Journ. 

 Bot. 187g, 64 ; Gard. Chron. 1878, i. 178. 



Anderson, Thomas (1832-70) : d. Edinburgh, 26 Oct., 1870. 

 M.D. Edin., 1853 ; F.L.S., 1859. Superintendent, Calcutta 

 Garden. Plants from Aden and India at Kew. Specially 

 studied Acanthacea. Pritz. 6 ; Jacks. 384, 388, 451 ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1870, 868 ; Gard. Chron. 1870, 1478 ; E. S. C. i. 65 ; 

 vii. 33 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. xi. 1875, 41 ; Proc. Linn. .Soc. 

 1870-71, Ixxx. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. i. 392. 



Anderson, William (1766-1846) : b. Easter Warriston, Edin- 

 burgh, 1766; d. Chelsea, 6 Oct., 1846. A.L.S., 1798 ; F.L.S., 

 1816. Gardener and Curator at Chelsea from 1814. ' Pritz. 

 6; Semple, 119, 203; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 331; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. i. 393. 



Anderson-Henry, Isaac (1799 ?-1884) : b. Caputh, Perthshire, 



