76 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Hall, Robert or Richard (1763-1824) : b. Eoxburghsh., 1763 ; 

 d. Chelsea, 1824. M.D. Edin. Husband of precefling. 

 Naval- surgeon. Practised in Jedburgh and London. 'Irrita- 

 bility of Vegetables.' ' Elements of Botany,' 1802. E. S. C. 

 iii. 139 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxiv. 85. 



Hall, Thomas B. (fl. 1839). Of Liverpool and, from 1839, of 

 Coggeshall, Essex. Contributed largely to Neville Wood's 

 Naturalist, vols, ii.-iv., 1837-9. ' Elora of Liverpool,' 1839. 

 Pritz 134 ■ Jacks. 255. 



Hall, WilliaiA (d. 1800) : d. London, 3 April, 1800. Of Wtdte- 

 hall, Chirnside, Berwicksh. "An enthusiastic botanist." 

 Hist. Berwicksh. Nat. Club, 1887-9, 539. 



Halle, Hug:hes R. P. Fraser (fl. 1842-69). ' Letters, Historical 

 and Botanical,' 1851. Pritz. 134; Jacks. 251. 



Halley, Edmund (1656^1742) : b. Haggerston, 29 Oct. 1656 ; d. 

 Greenwich, 14 Jan., 1742; bur. Lee, Kent. Astronomer and 

 Mathematician. Capt. E.N. M.A. Oxon, 1678 ; D.C.L., 

 1710. E.E.S., 1678 ; Sec, 1713. Savilian Prof. Geometry, 

 1703. Astronomer-Eoyal, 1720. Sent plants from Trinidad 

 to Petiver, 1700. Mus. Pet. pp. 37, 77, 80; Gent. Mag. 

 1742, 50 ; 1747, 455, 503 ; Athen. Ox. iv. 636 ; Fasti, ii. 368 ; 

 Chahners ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxiv. 104. 



Halstead, William (fl. 1702). Major. Brought Carolina plants 

 to Petiver, 1702. Mus. Pet. 96 ; Hb. Sloane, 158. 



Hambrough, Albert John (1820 ?-61) : b. 1820?; d. London, 

 6 June, 1861. Of Steephill Castle, I. of W. E.L.S., 1856. 

 F.B.S.E., 1839. Contributed to Bromfield's ' Flora Vecten- 

 sis.' Seaweeds in Venables' ' L of W,' 1860. Found Arum 

 italicum. Phyt. v. 194 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii. 202 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1862, xc. ; E. S. C. iii. 145. 



Hamilton, Charles (1753 ?-92) : b. Belfast, 1753 ? ; d. Hamp- 

 stead, 14 March, 1792 ; bur. Bunhill Fields. Captain, 

 E.I.C.S. ' Description of Mahwah Tree,' Asiatic Eesearches, 

 i. 300. Dryand. iii. 282; Watt; Eose ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 xxiv. 140. Monument at Belfast. 



Hamilton, Claudius (fl. 1699). Gave Barbadoes plants to 

 Petiver. Mus. Pet. no. 674. 



Hamilton, Francis, ne Buchanan (1762-1829) : b. Branziet, 

 Callander, Perth, 15 Feb., 1762 ; d. 15 June, 1829. M.D. 

 Edin., 1783; A.L.S., 1788; P.L.S., 1816; F.E.S. Surgeon 

 E. I. C, 1794. Superintendent, Bot. Gard., Calcutta, 1814- 

 15. Contributed mosses to Eng. Bot., 1590, &c. Sent 400 

 drawings Indian- pi. to Smith. Bxot. Bot. ii. t. 73. Plants at 

 Kew and Brit. Mus. Jacks. 383 ; E. S. C. i. 692 ; Lasagne, 

 138 ; Smith Lett. ii. 85 ; ' Men whom India has known,' 187i ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. vii. 186. BuohanaiiiaS:in.=Colehrookea Sm. 

 Buchanania Spreng. 



Hamilton, Rev. James (1814-67): b. Paisley, N.B., 27 Nov., 

 1814 ; d. Euston Sq., London, 24 Nov., 1867. M.A. Glasgow ; 

 D.D. Edin. Pastor of Eegent Sq. Church, 1841. F.L.S., 

 1848. Wrote bot. in Fairbairn's ' Diet, of the Bible.' ' Life ' 

 by W. Arnot, 1870, w. portr. ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1867-8, civ. ; 



