BRITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 14:1; 



Fleet Street. Friend of Smith. Botanised in home coun- 

 ties. Contributed to Eng. Bot. 1790-6 (tt. 65, 71, &c.). 



Rea, John (d. 1681) : d. Kinlet, near Bewdley, Nov., 1861. 

 Nurseryman. ' Flora, Ceres and Pomona," 1665 ; ed. 2, 

 1696. Introduced Gorylus Golurna, 1665. Pritz. 257; 

 Journ. Hort. 1876, 172. 



Reade, Rev. Joseph Bancroft (1801-70) : b. Leeds, .1 April, 

 1801 ; d. 1870. M.A. Camb., 1828. F.E.S. Microscopist. 

 One of founders and President, Microscopical Soc. ' Spiral 

 vessels in roots,' Mag. Zool. Bot. i. (1838), 111. Monthly 

 Microscopical Journal, v. 92. E. S. C. v. 114 ; viii. 710. 



Reeks, Henry (1838-82) : b. Standen, Berks, 15 March, 1838 ; 

 d. Thruxton, Hants, 20 Feb., 1882. F.L.S., 1866. 'New- 

 foundland Plants,' Journ. Bot. 1871, 16. ' Plants of East 

 Woodhay,' Eep. Newbury Field Club, 1870-1. Jacks. 364; 

 E. S. C. viii. 714 ; Journ. Bot. 1882, 352 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1880-2, 65. 



Reeves, John (1774-1856): b. West Ham, 1 May, 1774; d. 

 Clapham, 22 March, 1856. F.L.S., 1817; F.E.S., 1817. 

 Father of the following. Went to China as inspector of tea 

 to H.E.I.C.', 1812-31. Lived at Macao, afterwards at Clap- 

 ham. Correspondent of Banks. Sent home Wistaria. Made 

 collection of drawings of Chinese plants, now in Bot. Dept., 

 Brit. Mus. E. S. C. v. 127 ; Gard. Chron. 1856, 212 ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1856, xliii. ; Cott. Gard. xvi. 21. Beevesia Lindl. 



Reeves, John Russell (1804-77): b. 1804; d. Wimbledon, 

 Surrey, 1 May, 1877. F.E.S., 1832. Lived thirty years in 

 Canton. Had a herbarium. Journ. Bot. 1877, 192 ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1877, i. 604. 



Reeves, Rev. John William (fl. 1843). M.A. Camb., 1843. 

 Herbarium, including that of Dean Gamier, in Winchester 

 Public Library. Fl. Hampshire, xx., xxii. 



Reeves, Walter Waters (1819-92) : b. Beckley, Sussex, 14 

 Feb., 1819 ; d. Middleton Vicarage, Pickering, Yorkshire, 18 

 May, 1892. F.E.M.S., 1864. Assist. Sec, 1868-84. One 

 of founders of Quekett Club. ' PI. at Farnham,' Bot. Gazette, 

 1850-76; Journ. Bot. 1871, 1872 and 1874. Contrib. to 

 Brewer's ' Flora of Surrey.' Had a herbarium. E. S. C. v. 

 127. Journ. Bot. 1892, 212. 



Reid, Eliza P. (fl. 1826). Of Windsor. 'Historical and 

 Literary Botany,' 8 vols., 1826. Pritz. 119 ; Jacks. 214. 



Reid, Francis A. (fl. 1852). Lieut. Sec. Madras Horticult. 

 Soc. and Director of its garden. Beidia Wight =PhyUanthus. 



Reid, Hugo (fl. 1832-70). Of Edinburgh. Lect. Nat. Philo- 

 sophy, Liverpool High School. ' Outlines of Medical Botany,' 

 1832. ' Botanical Classification,' 1838. ' Science of Botany,' 

 1837. Pritz. 260 ; Jacks, 597 ; Allibone. 



Reid, James (fl. 1692). Sent plants from Barbadoes to Petiver 

 and Courten. ' Plants from Barbadoes by James Eeid the 

 Quaker, sent thither on King William's account, 1692 ' ; 

 Herb. Sloane, 55. Mus. Pet. no. "31 {Bheed). Plukenet, 

 Aim. 15 (Beede). 



