BEITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 155 



Surgeon, E.N., 1824, on H.M.S. 'Sulphur.' Colonial Sec, 

 New Zealand. Collected in Australia and New Zealand. 

 ' Vegetation of Auckland.' Plants at Kew. E. S. C. v. 707; 

 Journ. Bot. 1851, 212; Gard. Chron. 1861, 773; Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. 1861-2, xcv. Sinclairia Hook Liabum. 



Sinclair, George (1786-1834) : b. Mellerstain, Berwicksh., 

 1786 ; d. Deptford, 13 March, 1834. Gardener to Duke of 

 Bedford. Seedsman. F.L.S., 1824. 'Hortus Cantabrigi- 

 ensis,' ed. 12, 1831. ' Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis," 1816, 

 ed. 2, 1824 ; ed. 3, 1835 ; ed. 4, 1838. Pritz. 298 ; Jacks. 

 606 ; Gard. Mag. x. 192 ; Donaldson's Agric. Biog. 113. 



Sinclair, Sir John, Baet. (1754-1835) : b. Thurso Castle, 

 Caithness, 10 May, 1754; d. Edinburgh, 21 Dec, 1835. 

 Statist. President, Board of Agriculture, 1793. P.E.S. 

 F.L.S., 1810. M.P., Caithness, &c., 1780-1811. D.C.L. 

 Glasgow, 1788. Bart., 1786. 'Hints on Vegetation,' 1796. 

 ' Inquiry into Blight,' 1809. Jacks. 67 ; Memoir by Eev. 

 John Sinclair, 1837; Gent. Mag. 1886, i. 431; Donaldson, 

 Agric Biog. 



Skeen, James (fl. 1703). Surgeon. Sent plants from Guinea 

 to Petiver, Mus. Pet. 96. 



Skene, David (1735 ?-71) : b. Aberdeen, 1735 ? ; d. Aberdeen, 

 Dec, 1771. M.D. Aberdeen. Had a herbarium. Corre- 

 sponded with Linnffius. Murray, ' Northern Flora,' ix. 



Skepper, Edmund (1825-67) : b. Oulton, Suffolk, 20 Oct., 1825 ; 

 d. Bury St. Edmunds, 2 June, 1867 ; bur. Bury Cemetery. 

 Druggist at Harwich and Bury. 'Flora of Suffolk,' 1860. 

 Jacks. 360 ; Hind's ' Fl. Suffolk,' 485. 



Skinner, — (fl. 1772). " Acutissimus oculatissimusque Bo- 

 tanicus Oxoniensis," Forst. Gen. p. 58. Skinnera Forst. 



Skinner, George Ure (1804-67): b. Newcastle, 18 March, 

 1804; d. Aspinwall, Panama, 9 Jan., 1867. F.L.S., 1866. 

 Merchant in Leeds and Guatemala. Collected and grew 

 Orchids. Sent plants from Guatemala to Sir W. J. Hooker. 

 Trans. B. S. Ed. ix. 91; Gard. Chron. 1867, 180; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1866-7, xxxviii. Uroskinnera Lindl. 



Skrimshire, William (1766-1830). Entomologist. Of Wis- 

 bech. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. (379, 423, 468, 1869). E. S. C. 

 V. 712. 



Sleeman, Sir William Henry (1788-1856): b. Stratton, 

 Cornwall, 1788 ; d. at sea on passage from Calcutta, 10 Feb., 

 1866. H. E. I. C. military service, 1808. Major-general, 

 1865. KC.B., 1856. 'Age and Flowering of Bamboos,' 

 Trans. Agric. Soc. India, 1839-42. E. S. 0. v. 714 ; Gent. 

 Mag. 1856, ii. 253 ; AUibone. 



Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1763): b. Killyleagh, co. Down, 16 

 April, 1660 ; d. Chelsea, 11 Jan., 1763 ; bur. Chelsea Church- 

 yard. M.D. Orange, 1684; Oxon, 1701. F.E.S., 1686; 

 P.E.S., 1727-40. F.E.C.P., 1687; P.E.C.P., 1719-36. 

 Baronet, 1716. For. Memb. Acad. Sci., 1708. Pupil of 

 Tournefort. ' Catalogus PL Jamaic,' 1696. ' Nat. Hist, of 

 Jamaica,' 1707-25. Gave Chelsea Garden to Apothecaries* 



