58 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Bath Hospital, 1789. ' History of Sugar,' Mem. Manchester 

 Phil. Soc, 1796. 'Miscellaneous Tracts,' 1793, including 

 list of pi. known to Greeks. Pritz. 104 ; Jacks. 21, 213 ; 

 E. S. C. ii. 552 ; Cott. Gard. viii. 299 ; Felton, 183 ; New 

 Monthly Mag. xii. ; Munk ii. 278 ; Gent. Mag. xciv., ii. 

 874 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xviii. 165. Portr. by Daniel, of Bath, 

 1791 ; engr. by Fittler in ' Influence of the Passions.' 



Farquhar, Jane (nee Golden), (fl. 1750). Daughter of Gad- 

 wallader Golden. One of the first ladies to study the Linnean 

 System. MS. ' Flora Nov-Eboracensis,' in Bot. Dep. Mus. 

 Brit., with drawings. Pritz. 65; Linn. Corr. i. ; 'Memorials 

 of Bartram,' p. 400. 



Farquharson, Rev. James (1781-1843) : b. Coull, Aberdeen- 

 shire, 1781 ; d. ALford, Aberdeenshire, 3 Dec. 1843. F.E.S., 

 1830 ; M.A. Aberdeen, 1798 ; L.L.D., 1837. Appendix to 

 Murray's ' Northern Flora.' ' Agricultural Propea-ties of 

 Native Plants,' 1836. Gent. Mag. n.s. xxi. 94 ; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xviii. 224. 



Farquharson, Robert P. (1823-90) : b. 1823 ; d. Haughton, 

 Aberdeenshire, 3 May, 1890. Pres. Alford Field Club. 

 Knew Diatoms well. Scott. Nat., July, 1890, 289 ; Joum. 

 Bot. 1890, 334. Docidium Farquharsonii Eoy. 



Fennell, James H. (fl. 1840). ' Drawing-room Botany' (1840). 

 Jacks. 39. 



Ferguson, William (1820-87) : b. July, 1820 ; d. Golombo, 

 Ceylon, 31 July, 1887 ; bur. Colombo. Surveyor. In Ceylon 

 from 1839. 'Timber-trees of Ceylon,' 1863. 'Notes on 

 Ceylon Ferns,' 1880. ' Ceylon Grasses,' Journ. Ceylon 

 Branch E.A.S., 1880. Pritz. 106 ; Jacks. 396 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1887, 820; Ann. Bot. i. (1888) 403, with bibliog. ; Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. 1887-8, 89; 'Athenaeum,' 1887, ii. 287; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xviii. 356. Fergtisonia Hook. fil. 



Field, Barron (1786-1846) : b. London, 23 Oct., 1786 ; d. Tor- 

 quay, 11 April, 1846. F.L.S., 1825. Judge Supreme Court 

 N. S. Wales, 1816-24. Sent plants to Hooker. Jacks. 

 400; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 298; Exot. Flora, t. 222. Diet. 

 Nat: Biog. xviii. 399. Fieldia Gaud. = Vanda. Fieldia A. 

 Cunn. 



Fielding, Henry Barron (d. 1851) : b. Garstang, Lanes. ; d. 

 Lancaster, 21 Nov., 1851. Of Lancaster. F.L.S., 1838. 

 ' Sertum Plantarum ' (with G. Gardner), 1844. Herbarium 

 of 70,000 specimens, containing Steudel's, Prescott's, and 

 other plants, enumerated in Journ. Bot. 1854, 279, be- 

 queathed to Univ. of Oxford. Pritz. 107 ; Jacks. 117 ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 188; Phytol. iv. 655; Cott. Gard. vii. 188; 

 Lasegue, 330 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xviii. 424. 



Fifield — (fl. 1702). Surgeon. Sent plants from Campeachy 

 to Petiver. Mus. Petiv. 94. 



Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, iiee Thynne (1760- 

 1832): b. 25 March, 1760; d. Packington Hall, Coventry, 

 28 Dec, 1832; m. 4th Earl of Aylesford, 1781. Worked at 

 Warwickshire plants, 1784-1816. Made collection of 2830 



