128 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Intimate friend of Eay, who preached his funeral sermon. 

 Memorials of Eay, 11 ; Eay, Cat. pi. circ. Cantab, (pref.). 



Nimmo^ Joseph (fl. 1837-46). Of Bombay. Investigated 

 Flora of Bombay, and sent plants to Wight. Completed 

 Graham's Cat. Bombay Plants (see preface). Journ. Bot. 

 1841, 300. Nimmoia Wight = Ammania, part. 



Niven, James (1774 ?-1826) : b. Pennicuik, Edinburgh, 1774 ? ; 

 d. same place, 9 Jan., 1826. Grandfather of the following. 

 Gardener in Edinb. Bot. Qard. ; at Syon, 1796 ; to Hibbert, 

 1798. Collected in S. Africa for Hibbert and the Empress 

 Josephine, 1798-1803, and again for Lee and others, 1803-12 

 and kept a botanical diary there. Plants in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. Gard. Mag. ii. 255 ; Bot. Eep. t. 193 ; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. X. 46, 134; Lasagne, 447; Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 262; 

 Bot. Gaz. i. 106 (1849). Nivenia Br. =: Paranomus Salisb. 



Niven, James Craig (1828-81): b. DubHn, 1828; d. Hull, 

 16 Oct., 1881. Son of the following. Asst. Curator at Kew, 

 1852. Curator, Hull Bot. Gard., 1853. Lectured on Bot. 

 at Hull. ' Cat. Herbaceous Plants at Kew,' 1853. Edited 

 Maund's ' Bot. Garden,' 1878. Jacks. 412 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1881, 352 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. p. 541, with portr. on 

 p. 589 ; Life and portr., ' Garden,' xx. (1881). 



Niven, Ninian (1799-1879) : b. 1799 ; d. DubUn, 18 Feb., 1879. 

 F.B.S.Ed., 1836. Curator, Glasnevin Bot. Gard., Dublin, 

 1834-8. ' Companion to the Bot. Gard., Glasnevin,' 1838. 

 Pritz. 233; Jacks. 411; Gard. Chron. (1879), xi. 277; 

 E. S. C. iv. 627. 



Nodder, Frederick Polydore (fl. 1777-94). Botanic painter 

 to Queen Caroline. Drew and engraved the plates of 

 Martyn's 'Flora Eustica.' Drawings in Bot. Dept., Brit. 

 Mus. 



Noehden, George Henry (1770-1826) : b. Gottingen, 23 Jan., 

 1770; d. London, 14 March, 1826. LL.D., 1796; F.L.S., 

 1800. Vice- Secretary, Hort. Soc. Librarian, Brit. Mus., 

 1820. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 738, 858. ' Varieties of Citrus,' 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. iii. Appx. E. S. C. iv. 631 ; Eose; Hoefer. 



Noel, Lady Elizabeth (1731-1801): b. London?, 1731; d. 

 Bath, 1801; bur. Exton, Eutland, 10 Dec, 1801. Eldest 

 sister of the following. Contributed to Withering's ' Arrange- 

 ment ' (ed. 3, i. ix., iv. 145). MS. Flora of Eutland in posses- 

 sion of Col. B. A. Noel at Duffield. 



Noel, Henry, 6th Earl of Gainsborough (1743-98) : b. 

 Exton, Eutland, 19 April, 1743 ; d. 8 April, 1798 ; bur. at 

 Exton. Hon. Memb. L.S., 1788. Succeeded to Earldom, 

 1759. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. (50, 1188). Herbarium in pos- 

 session of Lord Gainsborough at Exton. Portraits in posses- 

 sion of the family, at Exton and Duf&eld. 



Norris, Sir William (fl. 1849). Eecorder at Penang. Sent 

 plants from Mount Ophir to Gardner. Joiirn. Bot. 1849, 

 328. Norrisia Gardn. 



North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guildford (c. 1766-1827) ■ b. 

 c. 1766 ; d. 14 Oct., 1827. D.C.L. Oxon, 1793; LL.D. Gamb., 



