BBITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 15X 



Scott, Robert (d. before 1813). M.D. Prof. Bot. Dublin, 1804, 

 Bryologist. Friend of Dawson Turner. Contrib. Mosses 

 to B. B. 1181, 1391, 1564. Eees (sub Scottia). Miniature 

 portr. at Kew. Scottia Br. 

 Scouler, John (1804-71) : b. Glasgow, 31 Jan. ?, 1804 ; d. 

 Glasgow, 13 Nov., 1871; bur. Kilbarchan. M.D. Glasgow. 

 F.L.S., 1829. Zoologist and Geologist. Naturalist to 

 'William and Ann," 1824. Visited Madeira, Brazil, Cal- 

 cutta, Portugal. Prof. Zool. & Bot., Dublin, 1833-54. Pupil 

 of W. J. Hooker. Collected in N. W. America, 1825-7, 

 Plants described in 'PL Bor. Amer.,' 1840. Papers in 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. 1845. Johnston Corr. 211 ; Bot. Misc. i. 

 34 ; Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, iv. 194 ; E. S. C. v. 607. 

 Scouleria Hook. 

 Seaforth, Lord Francis (fl. 1809). Governor of Barbados, 

 where he collected AlgsB for Dawson Turner. Turn. Puci, ii. 

 130. 'Botanices periti cultoris et fautoris,' Brown. Sea- 

 forthia Br. 

 Seaiy,— (d. before 1834). Collected in Co. Cork. Herbarium 



sent to Sir W. Hooker. Eng. Bot. 2782. 

 Seemann, Berthold Carl (1825-71): b. Hanover, 28 Peb., 

 1825 ; d. Javali Mine, Nicaragua, 10 Oct., 1871. M.A. and 

 Ph.D., Gottingen. F.L.S., 1852. On H.M.S. 'Herald,' 

 1846-51. ' Narrative,' 1853. ' Flora Vitiensis,' 1865. In 

 Venezuela, 1864. Founded andedited ' Bonplandia,' 1853-63, 

 and Journ. Bot. 1868-9. Pritz. 298 ; Jacks. 605 ; Journ. Bot. 

 1872, 1, w. portr. ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1871-2, Ixxiv. ; Gard. 

 Chron. 1871, 1678, w. portr. ; AUibone. Portr. in ' Men of 

 Eminence,' 1866 ; portr. at Kew. Seemannia Eegel. 

 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867): b. Alnwick, 1788; d. 

 Twizell, Northumberland, 27 March, 1867 ; bur. Bamburgh. 

 OfTwizell. Ornithologist. F.L.S., 1826. 'British Forest 

 Trees,' 1842. Pritz. 294 ; Jacks. 245 ; Allibone ; ' Eemini- 

 scences ' by Eev. L. Blomefield, 1885. Portr. in Ipswich 

 Museum series. Copy at Kew. 

 Seller, William (1798-1869): b. Peterhead, 1798; d. Edin- 

 burgh?, 11 April, 1869. M.D. Edin., 1821. F.B.S. Ed., 

 1843 ; Pres., 1857. ' Nutrition of Plants,' Edin. New. Phil. 

 Journ. xxxix. 50. ' Plants from Davis' Straits,' Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Ed. ii. 215. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. x. 203. 

 Seward, John (fl. 1794). M.D. Of Worcester. A.L.S., 1796. 



Discovered Hypericum dubium. E. B. 296. 

 Seymer, Henry (1745-1800) : b. Hanford, Dorset, 1745 ; d. 

 3 Dec.,, 1800. Of Hanford, Dorset. B.C.L. Oxon, 1771; 

 D.C.L., 1777. Friend of Pulteney and Solander. Step-uncle 

 of A. B. Lambert. Had a garden of exotics. Pursh, Fl. , 

 Amer. Sept. ii. 787 ; Nich. Anec. viii. 201 ; Hutchins' Hist, 

 of Dorset, iv. 66. Oil portr. at Linn. Soc. Seymeria Pursh. 

 Sharpe, Daniel (1806-56) : b. Marylebone, 1806 ; d. London, 

 31 May, 1856. Geologist. Collected -in Portugal. F.E.S., 

 1850; F.L.S., 1828. Fossil and Portuguese pi. in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiii. 1857, xlv. ; 



