60 BIOaBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



1834. Prof. Nat. Sci., New Coll., Edin., 1845. ' Outline 

 . . . Fl. West Lothian,' Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 640. 'On a 

 Law of Vegetable Life,' Journ. Agric. i. (1829). E. S. C. ii. 

 636 ; vii. 676 ; Mem., with portr., prefixed to ' Lithology of 

 Edinburgh," 1859 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xix. 279. 



FlintofT, Thomas (fl. 1789). Surgeon. Of Knoyton, Yorks. 

 Sent Fungi and notes to Bolton. Bolton, Hist. Funguses, 

 p. 170. 



Foot, Frederick James (1831 ?-67): b. Ireland, 1831?; 

 drowned Lough Kay, near Boyle, 17 Jan., 1867. M.A., 

 T.C.D. F.E.G.S.I. Corresp. Memb. DubUn Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 1857. Assist. Geologist, Irish Geol. Survey, from 1856. 

 ' Botany and Marine Zoology of Clare,' ' Occurrence of Hymen- 

 ophyllum tunhridgense in Co. Longford,' &c., in Proc. 

 Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc. ' Distribution of Plants in Burren, 

 CO. Clare,' Trans. Eoy. Irish Acad. xxiv. 143. E. S. C. ii. 

 653 ; vii. 686 ; Geol. Mag. 1867, 95. 



Forbes, Arthur (1819-79) : b. Douglas, I. Man, 25 Jan., 1819; 

 d. Aldershot, 16 Mar., 1879. Ninth laird of Culloden. 

 Had a herbarium. Trans. Bot Soc. Edin. xiv. 20. 



Forbes, Edward (1815-54): b. Douglas, I. Man, 12 Feb., 

 1815; d. Wardie, Edinburgh, 18 Nov., 1854; bur. Dean 

 Cemetery. F.L.S., 1843 ; F.E.S., 1845. Prof. Bot., King's 

 Coll., 1842. Eegius Prof. Nat. Hist. Edin., 1854. Visited 

 Norway, 1833 ; Alps, 1835 ; Carniola, 1838 ; Aegean, 1841-2. 

 Contributed Manx List in 1833 or 1834 to Top. Bot. Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Edin., 1836-41 ; Mag. Zool. Bot. iii. (1839), 236 ; 

 iv. (1840), 307; Ann. & Mag. vii. (1841), 157. 'Travels in 

 Lycia ' [with Spratt], 1846. Jacks. 230 ; E. S. C. ii. 654 ; 

 Memoir by Wilson and Geikie, 1861 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 

 408 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. v. 23 ; Gard. Chron. 1854, 771 ; 

 Proc. Geol. Soc, 1855, xxvii. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xix. 388. 

 Bust by Steel in College Museum, Edin. ; one by J. C. 

 Lough, Jermyn St. Museum. Portr. in Ipswich Mus. series ; 

 one in Geikie's ' Life of Murchison.' 



Forbes, James (1773-1861) : b. Bridgend, Perthsh., May, 1773 ; 

 d. Wobum Abbey, 6 July, 1861. Gardener, Woburn 

 Abbey. A.L.S., 1832. ' SaUctum Woburnense,' 1829. 

 ' Hortus Woburnensis," 1838, &c. Pritz. 109 ; Jacks. 415 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1861-2, civ. 



Forbes, John (1798-1823): b. 1798; d. Senna, E. Africa, 

 Aug. 1823 ; tablet in Chiswick Churchyard. A.L.S., 1822. 

 Collector for E. Hort. Soc. in E. and S. Africa, Madagascar, 

 Brazil (1822), &c. Lasegue, 367 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. viii., iii. 

 Plants in Mus. Brit. Hook. Exot. Fl. 115; Diet. Nat. 

 Biog. xix. 405. Forbesia Eckl. = Curculigo Gaertn. 



Forby, Rev. Joseph (fl. 1801). Brother of the following. Dis- 

 covered Salix Forhyana Sm. Eng. Bot. 1344. 



Forby, Rev. Robert (1759 ?-1825) : b. Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, 

 1759?; d. Fincham, Norfolk, 20 Dec, 1825. Of Barton. 

 B.A. Camb., 1781. ; M.A., 1784 ; F.L.S., 1798. Eector of 

 Fincham, Norfolk, 1789. Eng. Bot. 247, 446, 448, 1344. 



