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of Watson, Top. Bot. Contrib. to Phyt. ii.-iv. ' Eubus 

 imbricatus Hort,' Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 374. E. S. C. iii. 

 444. 



Hosack, David (1769-1835) : b. New York, 31 Aug., 1769 ; 

 d. New York, 22 Dec, 1835. M.D. Edin. F.E.S., 1817: 

 F.L.S., 1797. Pupil of Smith. Prof. Bot., Columbia 

 College, 1795. Established N. York Bot. Gard. ' Hortus 

 Elginensis,' 1811. Loudon, Gard. Mag. xii. 276; Amer. 

 Journ. Sci. Arts, xxix. 395 ; Pursh, Flora, xiv. Drake, Diet. 

 Americ. Biog. Hosackia Dougl. 



Houlston, J. (fl. 1851). Of Eoyal Gardens, Kew. ' Genera 

 and Species of cult. Perns ' (w. T. Moore), in Moore's Gard. 

 Mag. Bot. 1851, w. plate drawn by him. 



Houstoun, William (1695-1733) : b. Scotland, 1695 ; d. 

 Jamaica, 14 Aug., 1733. M.D., Leyden, 1729. F.E.S. 

 Correspondent of Miller. Collected in Central America and 

 W. Indies. ' Eeliquiae Houstonianse,' 1781, with engravings 

 by himself. MSS. and plants in Brit. Mus. Hb. Sloane 

 146, 316. Pult. ii. 231; Eees ; Pritz. 151; Jacks. Ill 

 Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. iv. 118; Sloane MSS., 4064, 119 

 Gent. Mag. 1733, 662 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxvii. 425. Hous- 

 tonia L. = 3edyotis. 



Hove, Anfliony Pantaleon (fl. 1787-8). M.D. A Pole. 

 Collector employed by Banks and Kew. Collected in Persia 

 and Crimea. In India in 1787-8. ' Tours ... in Guzerat, 

 Kattiawar, and the Conkuns, in 1787-88,' published by 

 Alexander Gibson for Bombay Gov., 1855. Hovea Br. 



How, or Howe, William (1620-56) : b. London, 1620 ; d. Lon- 

 don, 30 Aug., 1656; bur. St. Margaret's, Westminster. 

 Physician. B.A. Oxon, 1641'; M.A., 1644. Practised in 

 Laurence Lane and then in Milk Street. ' Phytologia 

 Britannica,' 1650. Lobel's 'Illustrationes,' 1655. Pritz. 

 151 ; Jacks. 561 ; Wood, Athen. Oxon. iii. col. 418 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xxviii. 102. 



Howard, John Eliot (1807-83) : b. Plaistow, Essex, 11 Dec, 

 1807 ; d. Tottenham, 22 Nov. 1883 ; bur. Tottenham Ceme- 

 tery. Quinologist. P.L_S., 1857; P.E.S., 1874. ' Nueva 

 Quinologia,' 1862. ' Quinology of E. Indies,' 1869. Pritz. 

 151 ; Jacks. 561 ; E. S. C. iii. 450 : vii. 1023 ; Proc Linn. 

 Soc. 1883-4, 85 ; Gard. Chron. 1883, ii. 701 ; Trans. Essex 

 Field Club, iv. 8, with portr. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xxviii. 48. 

 Hoivardia Wedd. 



Howitt, Godfrey (1800-73) ; b. Heanor Wood, Dertysh., 10 

 Nov., 1800; d. in Australia, 1873. Brother-in-law of the 

 foUowing. Went to Australia, 1839. M.D. Edin. P.B.S. 

 Edin., 1838. ' Muscologia Nottinghamensis ' (3 parts), 

 1833, specimens with letterpress. ' Nottinghamshire Flora,' 

 1839. Contributed lists of Stafford, Derby, Carnarvon, and 

 Notts, plants to New Bot. Guide (p. 640). Pritz. 151 ; 

 Jacks. 258. Howittia F. Muell. 



Howitt, Mary, nSe Botham (1797-1888): b. Coleford, Glou- 

 . cestersh., 10 March, 1797; d. Eome, 30 Jan., 1888; bur. 



