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Herbarium, collected 1801-14, at the Liverpool Garden. 

 Gard. Mag. xii. 724 ; Naturalist, iv. 1838-9, 395. Shepherdia 

 Nutt. 



Sheppard, John (fl. 1848). Of Bristol. ' On Trees,' 1848. 

 Jacks. 207. 



Sherard, James (1666-1737): b. Bushby, Leicestersh., 1666; 

 d. 12 Feb., 1737; bur. Evington, near Leicester. Apothe- 

 cary. M.D. Oxon, 1731 ; F.E.C.P., 1732 ; F.E.S. Younger 

 brother of the following. Employed Dillenius to write 

 ' Hortus Elthamensis,' 1732. Had a garden at Bltham. 

 Pult. ii. 150 ; E. Syn. iii. pref. ; Semple, 44 ; Munk, ii. 127 ; 

 Loudon, ' Arboretum,' 81 ; Nich. Aaecd. iii. 661 ; Nich. 

 Illustr. i. 403 ; Druce, El. Oxf. 383, 385. 



Sherard, William, iiSe Sherwood (1659-1728) : b. Bushby, 

 Leicestersh., 30 March, 1669; d. London, 12 Aug., 1728; 

 bur. at Eltham, Kent. B.C.L. Oxon, 1683; D.C.L., 1694; 

 E.E.S., 1718. Pupil of Tournefort. ' Schola Botanica,' 

 under pseudonym Samuel Whaeton, 1689. Visited Cornwall 

 and Jersey, E. Syn. ed. 1, 1690, Appendix. Edited Herman's 

 'Paradisus Batavus,' 1698. Consul at Smyrna, 1703-15^ 

 Brought DiUenius to England. Founded Chair of Bot. at 

 Oxford, and bequeathed library, herbarium of 12,000 species, 

 and MS. ' ' Pinax ' to University. Plants in Herb. Sloane. 

 Pult. ii. 141 ; Eees ; Jacks. 606; Eich. Corr. 293 ; Gorham, 

 11 ; Journ. Bot. 1874, 129 ; Semple, 48 ; Gent. Mag. Ixvi. ; 

 Nich. Illustr. i. 339, &c. ; Druce, Fl. Oxf. 380 ; Athen. Ox. 

 iv. 713 ; Munk, ii. 127. Sherardia L. 



Short, Thomas (d. 1772) : b. Edinburgh ; d. Eotherham, 28 

 Nov., 1772; bur. Sheffield Church. M.D. Of Sheffield, and, 

 from 1762, of Eotherham. ' Explanation of technical words 

 in Bot.,' 1731. ' Medicina Britanniea,' 1746. Pritz. 296 ; 

 Jacks. 245 ; Nich. Anecd. i. 461 ; Gent. Mag. Ixxvii. Ixxviii. ; 

 Allibone. 



Short, Thomas Kier (fl. 1838). Of Martin Hall, Notts. Col- 

 lected in New Zealand from 1836 and ' in all quarters of the 

 world,' and contributed to Naturalist iii. (1838). 



Shuter, James (d. before 1834). M.D. F.L.S.,1819. Collected 

 about Madras. Wight Prodr. 208. Shuteria Wight. Shu- 

 tereia Chois. 



Shuttleworth, Robert James (1810-74) : b. Dawlish, Devon, 

 Feb., 1810 ; d. Hyeres, 19 April, 1874. Captain, 1st Eegiment, 

 Duke of Lancaster's Own, 1833. F.L.S., 1856. Orig. memb. 

 B^S.Ed. Conchologist and critical botanist. Eesidedmany 

 years at Berne. ' Excursion in the Valais,' Mag. Zool. Bot. 

 1838. Had large herbarium, now in Herb. Brit. Mus. (see 

 Journ. Bot. 1878, 179). Jacks. 168 ; E. S. C. v. 681 ; Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Ed. xii. 203 ; Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxx. cxxxi. ; 

 Whittle, Hist. Preston, ii. 236 ; Journ. de Conch, xxiii. 92. 

 Shuttleworthia Meisn. = Verbena. 



Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-c. 1722) : b. near Leshe, Fife, 15 

 April, 1641; d. c. 1722. M.D. teyden, 1661; F.E.C.P., 

 1686. First Prof. Medicine, Univ. Bdin. 1685. Knighted, 



