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Afterwards working nurseryman. Member Eochdale Bot. 

 Soc. Cash, 90; Cott. Gard. i. 74; Buxton, Bot. Guide 

 'Manchester, ix. 



Melville, Andrew Smith (d. 1876). Of Galway. Lecturer 

 on Bot. and Geology, Edin. School of Arts, 1876. ' Athe- 

 naeum,' July 22, 1876, p. 119. 



Melville, Robert (1723-1809) : b. MonimaU, Fife, 12 Oct., 1723; 

 d. 20 Aug., 1809. Brigadier-General. Governor of the West 

 Indies. F.E.S. Founded St. Vincent Bot. Garden, 1765. 

 Eose, Biog. Diet. ; Appleton, Cyclop. Americ. Biog. Melvilla 

 And. = Cuphea. 



Menzies, Archibald (1754-1842) : b. Weem, Perthshire, 15 

 March, 1754; d. London, 15 Feb., 1842. Gardener, Bot. 

 Gard., Edin. Assistant- Surgeon, E.N. Surgeon and natu- 

 ralist to Vancouver, 1790-6. F.L.S., 1790. Introduced 

 Araiicaria imbricata, 1796. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit, 

 and at Kew. Imperial Diet, of Univ. Biog. ; Smith Corr. 

 ii. 272 ; Fl. Tasmania, cxiv. ; ' Bot. of Geol. Survey of CaU- 

 fornia,' 558 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 139 ; Lasegue, 366 ; E. S. C. 

 iv. 345. Portr. at Kew, and oil portr. by Eddis at Linn. 

 Soc. Menziesia Sm. 



Merrett, Christopher (1614-95) : b. Winchcombe, Gloucester, 

 16 Feb., 1614 ; d. Hatton Garden, 19 Aug., 1695 ; bur. St. 

 Andrew's, Holborn. B.A. Oxon, 1635 ; M.D., 1643 ; F.E.C.P., 

 1651-81 ; F.E.S., 1666. ' Musei Harviani custos,' 1654-66. 

 ' Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum,' 1666. Plants in 

 Herb. Sloane, 33, 34. Pult. i. 290-7; Pritz. ed. 1, 190; 

 Jacks. 580; Wood, Athen. Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv., coll. 430-2; 

 Munk, i. 258 ; Smith, Eng. Flora, i. pref. vii. viii. ; Thom- 

 son's Eoy. Soc. 22 ; Alumn. Oxon. Merrettia Gray. 



Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia {tiee Watkins) (1804-89): 

 b. Brompton, London, 15 April, 1804; d. Stapleford, Cambs., 

 4 Jan., 1889; bur. Stapleford. Algologist. 'Nat. Hist. 

 Brighton,' 1860. 'List of Marine Alga at Brighton,' Phyt. 

 vi. n.s. 513. ' Nitophyllum rersicolor,' Joum. Linn. Soc. xiv. 

 421. Jacks. 249 ; E. S. C. iv. 351 ; Journ. Bot. 1889, 160. 

 Merrifieldia Ag. 



Meyrick, William (fl. 1755 ?-94). Of Birmingham. ' New 

 Family Herbal,' 1789. ' Miscellaneous Botany,' 1794. Pritz. 

 ed. 1, 192 ; Jacks. 200. 



Middleton, W. (fl. 1812). Discovered Senecio lividus. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2515; Baines, Fl. Yorks., pref. Plants in Herb. 

 Yorks. Phil. Soc. 



Miers, John (1789-1879) : b. London, 25 Aug., 1789 ; d. Ken- 

 sington, 17 Oct., 1879. F.L.S., 1839 ; F.E.S., 1843. Grand 

 Cross of Eose of Brazil. In S. America, 1819-38. In Chile 

 and La Plata, 1825. ' Travels in S. America.' Monographs 

 of Burvianniacea, &c., Linn. Trans. 1851, &c. ' Menisper- 

 macea:,' Ann. & Mag. 1864-7. ' Contributions to Bot.' 3 vols. 

 1861, 1869, & 1871. Herbarium of 20,000 sheets, and MSS. 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pritz. 217 ; Jacks. 580 ; E. S. C. iv. 

 382; vii. 402; Journ. Bot. 1880, 33, vrith portr.; Gard. 



