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1814 ; d. Banff, 27 April, 1886. Shoemaker. A.L.S., 1866. 

 Curator Banff Museum. " Collected nearly every plant in 

 Aberdeenshire and Banffshire."- ' Life,' by S. Smiles, 1876 ; 

 Scott. Nat. 1886, 292 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii. 106. 



Edwards, Edward (1812-86) : b. London ? 1812 ; d. Niton, 

 I. Wight, 10 Feb. 1886. Assistant in library, Mus. Brit., 

 1839-46. Contributed to Phyt. o.s. & n.s. 'Lives of 

 Founders of Brit. Mus.' Pryor, Fl. Herts, li. ; E. S. C. vii. 

 448 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii. 115. 



Edwards, John (fl. 1768-95). F.S.A. ' British Herbal,' 1775 

 (plates and text). ' Collection of Flowers,' 1795. Pritz. 98 ; 

 Jacks. 232. 



Edwards, Sydenham Teak (1769 ?-1819) : b. Abergavenny, 

 1769?; d. Chelsea, 8 Feb., 1819; bur. Chelsea Church. 

 F.L.S., 1804. Botanical artist. Illustrated ' New Botanic 

 Garden,' 1806-7, ' Bot. Mag.,' 1799-1814, and ' Bot. Eegister,' 

 1815-19. Pritz. 98 ; Jacks. 542 ; Indexes Bot. Mag. p. x. 

 (1828); Faulkner, Chelsea, ii. 10; Fl. Midd. 396; Gent. 

 Mag. 1819, i. 188 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii. 126. Ediuardsia 

 Salisb. 



Edwards, William Frederick (1776-1842) : b. Jamaica, 6 

 April, 1776; d. Paris, 24 Aug., 1842 ; bur. Paris. Pritz. 28. 



Edwards, Rev. Zachary James (1800 ?-62?): b. Chard, 

 Somerset, 1800?; d. 1862?. B.A. Oxon, 1821; M.A., 

 1827. Eector of Combe Pyne, Devon, 1840. ' Ferns of the 

 Axe,' 1862. 



Egerton, Amelia [see Hume] . 



Ehret, Georg Dionysius (1708-70) : b. Erfurt, Saxony, 30 Jan., 

 1708 ; d. Chelsea, 9 Sept., 1770. Employed in Oxford 

 Garden, 1750. F.E.S., 1757. Botanical artist. Corre- 

 spondent of Linnseus. Illustrated ' Hortus Cliffortianus,' 

 1737. ' Plantse Selectte,' 1760-73. Drawings and MS. auto- 

 biog. in Bot. Dept., Mus. Brit. Pult. ii. 284 ; Pritz. 97 ; 

 Jacks. 110 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-6, 42 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 xvii. 167. Mezzo, by J. Haid, after A. Heckell ; copy at Kew. 

 Ehretia Trew., Linn. N.B. — Diet. Nat. Biog. gives b. 3 

 Sept., 1710. 



Elliot, Sir Walter (1803-87) : b. Wolfelee, Eoxburgh, 13 Jan., 

 1803 ; d. same place, 1 March, 1887. Indian civilian, 1818- 

 60. K.C.S.I., 1866; L.L.D. Edin., 1878; F.E.S., 1877. 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii. 262. 



Ellis, Daniel (1772 ?-1841) : b. Gloucestershire, 1772?; d. 

 Edinburgh, 17 Jan., 1841. Articles 'Vegetable Anatomy' 

 and ' Veg. Physiology' in Encyc. Brit. SuppL, ed. 6. Gard. 

 Chron. 1841, 87 ; Loud. Gard. Mag. 1841, 188. 



Ellis, John (c. 1710-76) : b. in Ireland, c. 1710 ; d. London, 

 15 Oct., 1776. London Merchant. F.E.S., 1764. Copley 

 Medal, 1768. Memb. Eoy. Soc. Upsal. ' Natural History 

 of Corallines,' 1765. Agent for West Florida, 1764; for 

 Dominica, 1770. Imported many American seeds. Corre- 

 spondent of Linnaeus. Contributed bot. descriptions to 

 ' Phil. Trans.' 1759-75. " The main support of Natural 



