144 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Robertson, Benjamin (d. 1800). Of Stockwell. Had a bot. 

 garden at Stockwell. Friend of A. H. Haworth. Haworth, 

 ' Miscellanies,' 190. Bobertsonia Haw. = Saxifraga. 



Robertson, James (fl. 1768). Pupil of John Hope. "Em- 

 ployed by the Commissioners of the Annexed States to 

 make a botanical survey of the distant parts of Scotland." 

 Found Eriocaulonin Skye, 1768. Phil. Trans, lix. 241. 



Robertson, John (d. 1866) : b. Perthshire ; d. Glasgow, 24 

 March, 1865. A.B.S.Ed., 1863. Gardener at Kew and 

 at Kinfauns Castle. Prepared 'Flora of Perthshire' (un- 

 published). Trans. Bot. Soc. ed. viii. 337 ; E. S. C. v. 230. 



Robertson, William (fl. 1814). Of Newcastle. Friend of 

 Alder and Hancock. " A very accurate investigator of 

 lichens.," E. Bot. 2602. Plants in Newcastle Museum. 



Robertson, William Henry (fl. 1832-66). M.D. Of Chester- 

 field and Buxton. ' Two Lectures on circulation ... of 

 Animals and Plants, with a short account of mode of growth 

 in Monocotyledonous and Dicot. Stems,' 8vo, pp. 32, London, 

 1832. ' Handbook to Peak of Derbyshire,' London, 1854 ; 

 later ed. 1866. 



Robinson, Anthony (d. before 1814). Surgeon. Of Sunderland. 

 Went to Jamaica. MSS. much used by Lunan in ' Hortus 

 Jamaicensis ' (see ' Notice to Subscribers ' and i. 273). 

 Amyris Bobinsonii DC. 



Robinson, James Frodsham (1838-84) : b. Netherton, Frod- 

 sham, Cheshire, 16 July, 1838; d. Frodsham, 4, Nov., 1884. 

 Druggist. Went to Montpelher to collect for Mr. George 

 Maw, circ. 1868, and then to Norway. Curator, Museum of 

 Owen's College, Manchester, circ. 1879-82. Sent Usts of 

 Carnarvon, Flint, and Anglesea plants to Top. Bot., none of 

 which are to be accepted as accurate ; Top. Bot. 564, ed. 1, 

 618, ed. 2. E. S. C. v. 238, viii. 764. 



Robinson, John, alias Fitz-Eobeets (fl. 1696). Of the Gill, 

 Kendal. Correspondent of Petiver and Eay. E. Sjm. ed. 2, 

 57, &c. ; C. Nicholson, ' Annals of Kendal,' 344. " A curious 

 naturalist," Phil. Trans, xxvii. 376. 



Robinson, Sir Tancred (d. 1748) : b. Torksh. ; d. 29 March, 

 1748. M.B. Camb., 1679; M.D., 1685; F.E.S., 1684; 

 F.E.C.P., 1687. Friend of Eay. Physician in ordinary to 

 George I. Knighted, 1714?. Studied, w. Sloane, under 

 Toumefort. ' Tubera terras,' Phil. Trans. 1693. " Vir de re 

 herbaria optime meritus," Plukenet, ' Almagestum,' 11. Pult. 

 ii. 118 ; Eay, Mem. 10 ; Munk, i. 469 ; Fl. West Eiding, 41. 



Robinson, Rev. Thomas (d. 1719) : Eector of Ousby, Cumber- 

 land, 1672-1719. Correspondent of Eay. ' Natural History 

 of Westmoreland and Cumberland,' 1709. Pult. i. 354. 



Robinson, Mrs. (d. 1847). Of Fareham, Hants. Friend of 

 Eev. G. E. Smith. Discovered Statice bah/usiensis, 1840. 

 Herb, bequeathed to Brit. Mus. 



Robley, Augusta J. (Mrs.) (fl. 1845). Daughter of Mrs. J. W. 

 Penfold (q.v.). Selection of Madeira Flowers,' 1845. Pritz. 

 265 ; Jacks. 363. 



