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Gage, Sir Thomas (1781-1820) : b. 1781 ; d. Eome, 27 Dec, 

 1820; bur. in the Gesu, Eome. Bart. F.L.S., 1802. Of 

 Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. Lichenologist. Contributed to Bng. 

 Bot. (1671, 2541, 2575, 2580, &c.). Collected in Suffolk, Ire- 

 land, and Portugal. Smith Lett. ii. 235, 264 ; Ann. Bot. ii. 

 555 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 328 ; Gillow, Diet. Catholic Biog. 

 ii. 364 ; Bot. Mag. 935. Portr. in Gage's Hist. Hengrave. 

 _ Gagea Eaddi = Zygodon. Oagea Salisb. 



Grainsborough, Henry, Earl of [see Noel, Henby]. 



Gairdner, Meredith (d. before 1840). M.D. Collected in N. 

 America. Surgeon in H.B.C. possessions in Columbia. 

 Woods in Brit. Mus. Plants at Kew. PL Bor. Amer., pref. 

 p. iii., and ii. 99. Pentstenwn Gairdneri Hook. 



Galpine, John (1769?-1806) : d. Blandford, 10 Jan., 1806 ; bur. 

 Blandford. Of Blandford, Dorset. A.L.S., 1798. ' Syno- 

 ptical Compend. of British Botany,' 1806. Pritz. 116 ; 

 Jacks. 233 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 388. 



Gapper [see Southby]. 



Garden, Alexander (1730 ?-91) : b. Charlestown, S. Carolina, 

 c. 1730; d. Cecil St., Strand, 16 April, 1791. M.D. Edin., 

 1752. Practised nearly thirty years, from 1752, in Charles- 

 town, S. Carolina. Pupil of Alston. Correspondent of Col- 

 linson, Ellis, and Linnseus. Meinb. Eoy. Soc. TJpsala ; 

 E.E.S., 1773. Eees; E. S. C. ii. 767; Appleton, Cyclopsed. 

 Amer. Biog. 594; Eamsay, Hist. S. Carolina, ii. ; Linn. 

 Corr. i. 282-605 ; Loudon, ' Arboretum,' 70 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 XX. 406. Gardenia Elhs. 



Gardiner, William (1809? -52): b. Dundee, c. 1809; d. 

 Dundee, 10 or 21 June, 1852. A.L.S., 1849. Contributed 

 to Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist. 1832-6, and to Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edin. 1839. Assoc. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1838. ' Twenty 

 Lfessons on British Mosses,' 1846 ; 2nd series, 1849. ' B6tani- 

 cal Eambles in Braemar,' 1845. ' Elora of Forfar,' 1848. 

 Published sets of Scottish plants. Pritz. 117 ; Jacks. 549 ; 

 E. S. C. ii. 767 ; Card. Chron. 1852, 406, 423 ; Cott. Gard. 

 viii. 210 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 244 ; W. Norrie, Dundee 

 Celebrities, 139 ; Boase. Sphceria Gardineri Berkeley. 



Gardner, D. (fl. 1820). Colonel. Collected cryptogams in 

 Nepal ; Mosses sent by Wallich to Hooker ' for Musci 

 Bxotici.' El. Exotica, t. 49. Calymperes Gardneri 

 Hook. 



Gardner, George (1812-49) : b. Glasgow, May, 1812 ; d. Neura 

 EUia, Ceylon, 10 Mar., 1849. M.D. Glasgow, 1835 ; E. L. S., 

 1842. Pupil of W. J. Hooker at Glasgow. 'Pocket Her- 

 barium of Brit. Mosses,' 1836. Travelled in Brazil, 1836- 

 41. Superintendent, Bot. Gard., Peradenia, Ceylon, 1844. 

 ' Organ Mountains,' Mag. Zool. Bot. 1838, 165. ' Travels in 

 Brazil,' 1846. Brought 7000 spp. from Brazil. Brazil Herb, 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pritz. 117 ; Jacks. 549 ; E. S. C. ii. 

 768; Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. (1836), 1, 344; Gard. Chron. 1849, 

 263; 1851, 343; Cott. Gard. ii. 74; Journ. Bot. 1849, 154; 

 1851, 188 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 40 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xx. 431. 



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