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F.L.S., 1811. Son of preceding. ' Liber rerum naturalium,' 

 1805. ' Index Pungorum,' 1819. Edited M. ' Tonbrigensis,' 

 ed. 2, 1842. Jacks. 14, 647 ; E. S. C. ii. 670 ; ' Eecueil de 

 ma vie,' 1837 ; ' Epistolarium Forsterianum,' 1845-50 ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1860, xxiii. ; Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 64 ; ' Annual 

 Eegister,' vol. 102 (I860), p. 440 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 22. 



Forsyth, J. S. (fl. 1827). ' First Lines of Botany,' 1827. Pritz. 

 110; Jacks. 547. 



Forsyth, William (1737-1804) : b. Old Meldrum, Aberdeen, 

 1737; d. Kensington Gardens, 25 July, 1804. F.L.S. 

 Gardener, under Pbilip Miller, 1763 ; at Syon ; at Cbelsea, 

 1771-84 ; then at St. James' and Kensington Palaces. Pritz. 

 110; Cott. Gard. iv. 233; Journ. Hort. xxi. (1876), with 

 portr. ; Semple, 112 ; Felton, 186 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 35. 

 Portr. in ' Treatise on Fruit-trees,' 1802. Forsythia Walt = 

 Decumaria. Forsythia Vahl. 



Forsyth, William (1772 ?-1835): b. Chelsea ? 1772 ? ; d. London, 

 28 July, 1835 ; bur. Chelsea. Son of preceding. ' Botanical 

 Nomenclator,' 1794. Correspondence iu Cott. Gardener, vii. 

 350, &c. MS. ' BibHotheca AgriculturaeHorticulturae,' &c., 

 purchased by Longmans at his sale for £8 18s. 6d. (Nov. 11 

 1835). Pritz. (ed. 1), 88; Jacks. 14; Loud. Gard. Mag. xi. 

 (1835), 496. 



Fortune, Robert (1813-80): b. Kelloe, Edrom, Berwick, 16 

 Sept., 1813; d. Brompton, 13 April, 1880. Bot. Gard. 

 Edin. ; Chiswick, 1842. Collector to E. H. S. in China, 

 Java, &c., 1843-5 and 1848-50. Curator, Chelsea, 1846-8. 

 ' Wanderings in China,' 1847. Introduced Tea into India, 

 1851. Pritz. 110; Jacks. 380; Journ. Bot. 1880, 160; 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xiv. 161 ; E. S. C. ii. 672 ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1880, i. 487; Cott. Gard. xix. 192; Las^gue, 436; 

 ' Athenaeum,' 1880, i. 507 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 50. Fortwncea 

 Ldl. = Platycarya. 



Fothergill, John (1712-80) : b. Carr End, Wensleydale, York 

 8 Mar., 1712; d. London, 26 Dec, 1780; bur. Winch- 

 more Hill. M.D. Edin., 1736; L.E.C.P., 1744; F.E.S. 

 1753. Travelled in Flanders before 1740. Practised in Lom 

 bard St. from' 1740. Correspondent of Linnaeus. Had bot 

 gard. at Upton, West Ham, from 1762 ; Loud., ' Arboretum, 

 71, 82. Jacks. 415 ; Life, by Sir John Elliott, 1781 ; by Dr. 

 Gilb. Thompson, 1782; by Lettsom, 1783; by J. Hack 

 Tuke, 1880 ; Gent. Mag. 1780, 592 ; Nich. Anecd. ix. 737, 

 with portr. ; Cott. Gard. vii. 327 ; Munk, ii. 154 ; Friends' 

 Books, i. 629 ; 'Memorials of Bartram and Marshall,' by W. 

 Darlington, 495-515 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 66. Full-length 

 portr. by Hogarth at E. C. P. Mezzot. by V. Green, after G. 

 Stuart, 1781 ; copy at Kew. Wedgwood medalhon and 

 bust. Fothergilla L. 



Foulkes, Robert (fl. 1727) : b. Llanfrothen, Merioneth, 1702? 

 B.A. Oxon, 1725. M.D. Of Llanbeder, Denbigh. Eecorded 

 Cucubalus baccifer and contradicted it. Linn. Corr. ii. 171 ; 

 Eich. Corr. 132. 



