68 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Thos. Wright, Biog. Brit. Literar. ii. 461 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 xxi. 318. 



Gilby, William Hall (fl. 1814-21). M.D. Edin. ' Eespiration 

 of Plants,' Edin. Phil. Journ. iv. 100 (1821). Pritz. 121; 

 E. S. C. ii. 884 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxi. 340. 



Gilchrist, James (1813-85) : b. Collin, Dumfriesshire, 21 June, 

 1813 ; d. Dumfries, 7 Dec, 1886. M.D., 1850. President 

 Dumfries Field Club. ' Geological Eelations of Alpine 

 Plants,' Proc. Edin. Bot. Soc. 1855, 9. Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin. xvii. 2 ; E. S. C. ii. 884 ; Scott. Nat. 1886, 242. 



Gillies, John (d. before 1837). M.D. Eesided at Mendoza. 

 Collected in Chili. MS. ' Elora Orcadensis ' [with Alexander 

 Duguid] , 1832. Plants in Herb. Fielding at Oxford. Wat- 

 son, 'Top. Bot.' 545; E. S. C. ii. 889; Miers, Trav. Chili, i. 

 226 ; Lasegue, 486 ; Bot. Misc. iii. 130. Plants at Kew and 

 Brit. Mus. Gilliesia Lindl. 



Gilpin, Rev. William (1724-1804) : b. Scaleby Castle, Carlisle, 

 4 June, 1724 ; d. Boldre, Hants, 5 April, 1804 ; bur. Boldre. 

 B.A. Oxon, 1744; M.A., 1748. Vicar of Boldre, 1777. 

 Prebend, of SaUsbury. ' Forest Scenery,' 1791. Autobiog. 

 Cumberl. and Westm. Antiq. Soc. 1879 ; Gent. Mag. 74 

 (1804), i. 388; Nich. Anecd. i. 639; ii. 253; viii. 643,657; 

 Nich. Illustr. i. 778 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxi. 383. Portr. by 

 H. Walton, engr. by G. Clinch. 



Giraud, Herbert John (1817-88) : b. Faversham, Kent, 14 

 April, 1817; d. Shanklin, I.W., 12 Jan., 1888. M.D. Edin., 

 1840; F.B.S. Edin. 'Vegetable Embryology,' Mag. Zool. 

 Bot. V. (1840), 225 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 161 ; E. S. G. ii. 

 902. Prof. Bot., Grant Med. Coll., Bombay, 1845. Went 

 to India, 1842. Boase ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxi. 394. 



Gisborne, Rev. Thomas (1758-1846) : b. Yoxhall, Staff., 31 

 Oct., 1758 ; d. Durham, 1846. Of Yoxhall Lodge, Staff. 

 B.A. Camb., 1780; M.A., 1783. Prebend of Durham. 

 F.L.S., 1799. Sent Epimedmm to Smith. Eng. Bot. 438, 

 530, 616, 1557 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 299 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 xxi. 481. 



Gissing, Thomas Waller (1829-70) : b. Halesworth, Suffolk, 

 2 Aug., 1829 ; d. Wakefield, 28 Dec, 1870 ; bur. Wakefield 

 Cemetery. Druggist. ' Materials for Fl. of Wakefield,' 1867. 

 Jacks. 261 ; E. S. C. ii. 907 ; vii. 783 ; Pharm. Journ. 1871, 

 556. 



Glasspoole, Hampden Gledstanes (1825-87) : b. Ormesby 

 St. Michael, Norfolk, 6 April, 1825; d. Hammersmith, 5 

 Mar., 1887; bur. Ormesby. Contributed to ' Science Gossip.' 

 Found Carex trinervis. Journ. Bot. 1887, 382. 



Glen, Rev. Andrew (1666 ?-1732) : b. 1666 ? ; d. Hathern, 

 Leicester, 1 Sept., 1732 ; bur. Hathern. B.A. Camb., 1683 ; 

 M.A., 1687. Eeetor of Hathern, 1694. Friend of Eay. 

 Travelled in Sweden and Italy. Formed a herbarium (1685- 

 92) of 700 native and 400 exotic spp. (200 Italian). Pult. ii. 

 63 ; Nieh. Anecd. viii. 196 ; Nichols, ' History of Leicester- 

 shire,' iii. 846 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxi. 427. 



