BBITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 117 



1810. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1836. Mem. Wern. Soc. 

 i. 215, 626 ; E. S. C. iv. 298 ; Greville, Fl. Edin. vi. 



Maund, Benjamin (1790-1863): b. 1790; d. Sandown, I. of 

 "Wight, 21 April, 1863. F.L.S., 1827. Druggist and book- 

 seller at Bromsgrove, Warwicksh. Contributed to Phytol. i. 

 45. ' Botanic Garden,' 1825 (original drawings in Bot. Dept., 

 Brit. Mus.). ' The Botanist ' [with J. S. Henslow] , 1837, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1863-4, xxx. ; Pritz. 210; Jacks. 579. 



Mavor, Rev. William Fordyce (1758-1837) : b. New Deer, 

 Aberdeen, 1 Aug., 1758; d. Woodstock, Oxon?, 29 Dec, 

 1837. LL.D. Aberd., 1789. Assistant in school at Burford, 

 Oxford, 1775. Ordained, 1781. Vicar of Hurley, Berks, 

 1789 ; Stonesfield, Oxon ; Eector and Mayor of Woodstock. 

 ' Botanical Pocket-book,' 1800. ' Gen. View of Agriculture 

 of Berks' (w. list of plants), 1809. 'Description of Blen- 

 heim ' (w. list of plants), . Sent notes on pi. to Baxter. 

 'Spelling-book,' 1801. Pritz. 210; Jacks. 35; Cott. Gard. 

 viii. 221. 



[Mawe, Thomas (fl. 1778). Gardener to Duke of Leeds. 

 ' Universal Gardener and Botanist,' published in his name, 

 but written by John Abercrombie, 1778. Johns. Gard. Diet. 

 220, 222.] 



Mawson, Thomas William (1850 ?-76): b. 1850?; d. Burn- 

 ingham, Yorks., 16 Sept., 1876. M.D. Edin. ; F.B.S. Ed., 

 1869. Went to Surinam. ' Eerns of Derwent,' Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edin. xi. Trans. Bot. Soo. Edin. xiii. 10. 



IVIaxwell^ E. (d. before 1839). Lieut. 11th Dragoons. Collected 

 in Kunawar, 1825. Eoyle, lUustr. 52. Thalictnmi Maxwellii 

 Eoyle. 



Maxwell, G. (1805 ?-80) : b. 1805 ? ; d. King George's Sound, 

 1880. Collector of plants and insects in Australia for thirty 

 years. Gard. Chron. 1880, i. 433 ; Fl. Austral, i. 14. Erio- 

 stemon Maxwelli F. v. M. 



Maycock, James Dottin (d. 1839-40). Eesident in Barbadoes 

 for many years. M.D. ; F.L.S., 1829. ' Flora Barbadensis,' 

 1830. Cat. of pi. in HalUday's ' West Indies,' 1837. Pritz. 

 210 ; Jacks. 369 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 72 ; E. S. C. iv. 305. 

 Maycockia A. DC. 



nUeen, Margaret (fl. 1790). Botanical artist. 'Exotic Plants 

 from Eoyal Gardens at Kew,' 1790. 



Meeson, Henry Ashton (fl. 1836-46). Of Grays, Essex. 

 M.D.; Memb. Bot. Soo. London. 'On Formation of Leaves,' 

 Ann. & Mag. iv. (1840), 137. 



Meller, Charles James (1836 ?-69): b. 1836; d. Berrima, 

 Sydney, 26 Feb., 1869. M.E.C.S., 1857; F.L.S., 1867. 

 Travelled in Africa with Livingstone, and in Madagascar. 

 Superintendent, Bot. Gardens, Mauritius. Plants at Kew. 

 Journ. Bot. 1869, 212 ; E. S. C. iv. 330 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1869-70, cii. Mellera S. Moore. 



Mellor, John (1767-1848); b. Eoyton, Lane, 1767; d. Eoyton, 

 Oct., 1848 ; bur. Eoyton. " Father of working-men botanists 

 of Lancashire." Hand-loom weaver and cotton-spinner. 



