piie:pace. 



A FEW words of explanation as to the object and scope of this 

 Index inay fitly ajipear as an introduction to the work. 

 : It is intended, mainly as a guide toi further information, and 

 not as :a bibliography or biography.; We have been liberal ia 

 including all who have in any way contributed to the literature 

 of Botany, who have made scientific, collections of plants, or have 

 otherwise assisted directly in the progress of Botany, exclusive 

 of pure Horticulture. We have not, as a rule, included those 

 who were merely patrons of. workers, or those known only as 

 contributing smaU details to a local Flora. 



Where known, the name is followed by the years of birth and 

 death, which, when uncertain, are marked with a ? or c. {circa} ; 

 or merely approximate dates of "flourishing " are given. Then 

 follows the place and day of birth and death, and the. place of 

 burial ; a brief indication of social position or occupation, espe- 

 cially in the cases of artisan botanists and of professional 

 collectors ; chief university degrees, or other titles or of&ces held, 

 and, dates of election to the Linnean and Epyal Societies,. A 

 i^eference is theij generally made to some botanical work or works 

 justifying the inclusion of the name in the list, and terse encomia 

 by eminent botanists are occasionally quoted. The present where- 

 abouts of correspondence or MSS.,. and the existence of. any 

 herbarium or of plants collected, are next noted. IBleference is 

 then. given to the chief sources of further information. Here, 

 Pulteney's ' Sketches of the Progress of Botany ' (1790), Eees' 

 Cyciop.sedia (1819-20), in which many of the biographies, were 

 written by Sir J. E. Smith, Pritzel^s ' Thesaurus Literaturae 

 Botanicae ' (1872), Jackson's ' Guide to Literature of Botany ' 

 (1881),, and the Eoyal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers 

 (vols, i.-ix.), are first quoted j then the; fullest known record is 

 given; and, lastly, a reference to the ' Dictionary of National 

 Biography ' (vols, i.-xxxiii.), so far as issued to the end of 1892. 

 Mention is then made of any portrait, original or engraved, of any 

 genua dedicated to the botanist in question, or, failing any such 



