BRITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 129; 



1821. F.E.S., 1794; M.P., Banbury, 1792. Sec. of State, 

 Corsica, 1795. Governor of Ceylon, 1798-1805. Sent Ceylon 

 plants to Banks. 



North, Miss Marianne (1830-90): b. Hastings,. 1830; d. 

 Alderley, Gloucestershire, 30 Aug., 1890. Flower paintings. 

 North Gallery at Kew (catalogue by W. B. Hemsley). 'Ee- 

 cords of a Happy Life' (autobiography), w. portr., 1892; 

 Journ. Bot. 1890, 829. Northea Hook. f. 



North, Richard (fl. 1759). Nurseryman, of Lambeth. 'Treatise 

 on Grasses' and 'Gardeners' Catalogue,' 1759. Johnson, 

 Hist. Gard. 215 ; Pritz. ed. i. 213. 



Notcutt, William Lowndes (d. before 1871) : b. Ipswich. 

 Lived at Daventry, Fareham, and Cheltenham. Grandson of 

 the following. ' Handbook Brit. Plants,' 1865. Contrib. to 

 Phyt. i. and iii. on Daventry, Fareham, and Ipswich plants. 

 Jacks. 237 ; E. S. C. iv. 646 ; Top. Bot. 552 ; Smiles' ' Life 

 of Eobert Dick.' 



Notcutt, William Russel (d. before 1802) : d. Surinam, before 

 1802. Of Ipswich. F.L.S., 1796. Lectured on Chemistry, 

 New College, Hackney, 1796. Eng. Bot. 1049. 



Noton, — (fl. 1834). Collected in Neilgherries. Wight Prodr. 

 208. Notonia Wight. 



Nowell, John (1802 ?-67): b. 1802?; d. Todmorden, Yorksh., 

 28 Oct., 1867. Of Todmorden. Twister-in. Muscologist. 

 Discovered Ginclidium stygium in 1836, Eng. Bot. 2840. 

 Contrib. to Baines' ' Fl. Yorksh.' (1840), and wrote ' Mosses ' 

 in Suppl. to same (1854). Correspondent of Wilson : letters 

 in Wilson Corresp., Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. Herbarium at 

 Todmorden. Bot. Soc. Jacks. 262 ; Journ. Bot. 1870, 91 ; 

 Cash, 102 ; Windsor, ' Fl. Cravoniensis,' vii, ; Buxton, Bot. 

 Guide, X., xiv. Obelisk at Todmorden. Nowellia Mitt. 



Nuttall, John (d. 1849-50). Of Tithewer, co. Wicklow. Ar- 

 boriculturist. Knew Irish plants well. Journ. Bot. 1850, 94. 



Nuttall, Thomas (1786-1859): b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorksh., 

 5 Jan., 1786; d. St. Helen's, Lane, 15 Sept., 1859. Printer. 

 F.L.S., 1813. Emigrated to Philadelphia, 1807 ; Upper Mis- 

 souri, 1811 ; Arkansas, 1818 ; Snake Eiver; 1834 ; Sandwich 

 Isles and Monterey, 1836. Prof. Bot., Harvard, 1834. Ee- 

 turned to England, 1842. ' Genera of N. American PL,' 1818. 

 Herbarium bought by Brit. Mus. : sets also at Kew, Harvard, 

 and Philadelphia. Pritz. 235 ; Jacks. 587 ; E. S. C. iv. 650 ; 

 Whittle, 'Blackburn as it is,' 1853, 194; Cott. Gard. 

 xxiii. 7, 349 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860, xxvi. ; Journ. Bot. 

 1841,108; Short, ' Western Botany,' 14. NuttalUa Torr. & 

 Gray. 



O'Donovan, Edward, afterwards Donovan (1768-1837) : b. 

 1768 ; d. Lambeth, 1 Feb., 1837. F.L.S. Zoologist. 'Bo- 

 tanical Eeview,' 1789-90. ' Minute Parts of Plants,' 1789- 

 90 (both w. col. plates by himself). Pritz. 90 ; Jacks. 540 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xv. 236. 



bgilby, Alan (fl. 1471). Of Scotland. Eesided in Constan- 



