BEITISH AND IBISH BOTANISTS. 127 



Mus. E. S. C. viii. 493 ; Top. Bot. 551 ; Journ. Bot., with 

 portr., 1886, 161 ; Proo. Linn. Soo. 1885-6, 145. Neiobouldia 

 Seem. 



Newman, Edward (1801-76) : b. Hampstead, 13 May, 1801 ; 

 d. Peckham,' Surrey, 12 June, 1876 ; bur. Nunhead. Printer 

 and publisher, pteridologist and entomologist. P.L.S., 1833. 

 Lived at Godalming, 1817-26. Contributed to Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, from 1831. In Ireland, 1839. ' History of British 

 Ferns,' 1840 ; ed. iv. 1865 (illustrated by himself). Edited 

 ' Phytologist,' 1841-54. ' Letters of Eusticus,' 1849. Pritz. 

 232 ; Jacks. 586 ; E. S. C. iv. 600 ; viii. 494 ; Memoir, with 

 portr., 1876; Journ. Bot. 1876, 223; Gard. Chroh. 1876, 

 i. 823 ; Zoologist, 1876, pref., with portr. 



Newton, James (1611 ?-89?): b. 1611?; d. 1689? M.D. 

 ' Enchiridion ' (fragment), 1689. ' Herbal ' (ed. by his son), 

 1752 ; ed. 6, 1802 ; begun, 1680. Friend of Eay, Hermann, 

 and Commelin. " Stirpium Britannicarum explorator in- 

 defessus," Pluk. Aim. 230. Botanized in Scotland, Kent, 

 Westmoreland, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, and Wales. 

 Plants collected in Great Britain, Ireland, and Holland, 

 Herb. Sloane, 205-207, 236-239. Phil. Trans, xx. 263 ; MS. 

 notes in copy of Parkinson's ' Theatrum ' in Bot. Dept., 

 Brit. Mus. Pritz. 232; Jacks. 586; Pref. to Herbal; PI. 

 Midd. 389. Portr. prefixed to Herbal. 



Newton, John (fl. 1640). Surgeon. Of CoUiton, Somerset. 

 Brought plants from America to Parkinson (Theatrum, 

 596). 



Newton, Rev. Thomas (d. 1607) : b. Presbury, Cheshire ; d. 

 Little Ilford, Essex, May, 1607 ; bur. in Ilford Church. Sur- 

 geon, afterwards schoolmaster and clergyman. Eector of 

 Little Ilford, 1583. Translated ' Herball to the Bible,' 1587, 

 from Lemnius. Pult. i. 108 ; Wood, Athen. Oxon., ed. Bliss, 

 ii. 5 ; Cooper, Athen. Cantab, ii. 452. 



Nichol, William (1836-59) : b. Edinburgh, March, 1836 ; d. 

 Alexandria, 7 May, 1859. M.D., 1857; E.B.S.Bd. Mus- 

 cologist : " added many mosses to the flora of Scotland." 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Bdin. vi. 290. 



NichoUs, Robert (fl. 1745). Apothecary. Of London. Corre- 

 spondent of Blackstone. Herbarium presented to Apothe- 

 caries' Company, 1745 ; plants now in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 El. Midd. 391 ; Sloane MS. 4054. 



Nicholson, Henry (fl. 1712). M.D. Leyden, 1709. ' Methodus 

 plantarum in hort. Dublin,' 1712. Pritz. 232; Jacks. 251. 



Nicholson, T. (fl. 1831). M.D. Of Antigua. " Valued cor- 

 respondent " of W. J. Hooker. Bot. Mag. 3071, 3098 

 (plates drawn by him). 



Nicol, William (fl. 1827-34). Of Edinburgh. Invented 

 section-cutting of fossil wood in 1827. ' Observations on 

 recent and fossil Coniferae,' Jameson's Edinb. Phil. Journ. 

 1834. Fossils in Brit. Museum. A. Geikie, ' Text-book of 

 Geology,' ed. i. 94. Nicolia Ung. 



Nid, John (d. c. 1659). Senior Fellow, Trin. Coll., Camb. 



