142 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Relhan, Rev. Richard (1753-1823) : b. 1753 ; d. 21 March, 

 1823. M.A. Camb. 1779. F.L.S., 1788. F.E.S. ' Flora Can- 

 tabrigiensis,' 1785-93 ; ed. 2, 1802 ; ed. 3, 1820. ' Heads of 

 Lectures on Botany,' 1787. Contrib. to E. Bot. Pritz. 260 ; 

 Jacks. 597 ; Babington, Fl. Cambridge, x. ; Bot. Guide, 41, 

 335 (138, 288, 333) ; Gorham, 126; Eose ; Allibone. _ Belhania 

 L'Hdrit. 



Rennie, Rev. James (d. 1867) : d. Australia, 1867. M.A. 

 Prof. Zool. King's Coll., London. In Australia fr. 1840. 

 ' Magazine of Botany,' 1833-4. ' Alphabet of Botany,' 1833. 

 ' Handbook of Bot.' 1834. ' Familiar Introduction to Botany,' 

 1849. Jacks. 597 ; E. S. C. v. 162, viii. 731 ; AlUbone. 



Reynardson, Samuel (d. 1721) : d. Hillingdon, Middlesex, 

 1721. Of Cedar House, HiUingdon, fr. 1678. Had green- 

 houses, a fine collection, museum and hbrary and "great 

 correspondence abroad." Collection sold to Eobert Walpole. 

 Plukenet, Amaltheixm, 63. Mantissa, 51, 147. Loudon, 

 'Arboretum,' 56, 59, 61. 



Rhind, William (fl. 1833-67). M.E.C.S. Lect. Bot. Mari- 

 schal Coll., Aberdeen. 'History of Veg. Kingdom,' 1840-1, 

 ' Catechism of Bot.' 1833. Pritz. 262 ; Jacks. 597. 



Rhydderch, Sion, alias Roderick^ John (fl. 1737). Printer. 

 Of Shrewsbury. ' Y geir Cyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg,' ' An 

 Enghsh- Welsh Herbal,' 1737. Davies, ' Welsh Botanology,' 

 p. vii. 



Richards, Thomas (fl. 1753-1816). Of Coychurch. 'Welsh 

 and Enghsh Botanology,' in ' Antiquae Linguae Britannicae 

 Thesaurus,' 1815. Davies' ' Welsh Botanology,' p. vii. 



Richardson, David Lester (1800-65). Major in Bengal 

 army. In India 1819-27, 1829-61. Principal of Hindoo 

 College, Calcutta. Editor from 1861 of Allen's ' Indian 

 Mail.' ' Flowers and Flower-gardens,' 1855. Pritz. 263 ; 

 Jacks. 215; Memoir by J. W. Kaye, in 'Calcutta Eeview,' 

 vol. xvi. ; AUibone. 



Richardson, Sir John (1787-1865) : b. Dumfries, 5 Nov., 1787; 

 d. Grasmere, Westmoreland, 5 June, 1865. F.E.S. P.L.S. 

 M.D. Edin., 1816. Surgeon and Naturalist in Franklin's 

 1st (1819) and 2nd (1825-8) Expeditions ; 3rd Arctic Expe- 

 dition, 1861 ; made large collections. Knighted, 1846. Bot. 

 Misc. i. 70. Plants at British Museum and Kew. Pritz, 

 263 ; Jacks. 223 ; E. S. C, v. 188, viiL 744; ' Life,' by Eev. 

 John Mclh-aith, 1868; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1865-6, Ixxxiv. ; 

 Proc. Eoy. Soc. xv. p. xxxvii. ; Allibone. Heuchera Bichard- 

 sonii Br. 



Richardson, Richard (1663-1741) : b. North Bierly, near 

 Bradford, Yorks., 6 Sept., 1663; d. same place, 21 April, 

 1741 ; bur. White Chapel Church, nr. Cleckheaton. MB 

 Oxon ; M.D. Leyden, 1699. F.E.S., 1712. Found Tri- 

 chomanes radicans, in Yorks. PhU. Trans, no. 128, p. 526. 

 ' De cultu hortorum,' 1699. Contrib. to Eay's ' Synopsis,' 

 ed. 3. MS. ' Deliciae Hortenses,' 1696, and ' Index Hort. 

 Bierleiensis,' 1737. ' Correspondence,' 1835, w. portr. Plants 



