160 BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



1790. Succeeded his father as Duke, 1817. Lord Spencer, 

 1806, took the name of Churchill, 1807. Of Whiteknights, 

 Beading. Contributed to Andrews' ' Bot.Eepository.' Bland- 

 fordia Andr. = Galax L. 



Spicer, Rev. William Webb (1820 ?-79): b. Westminster, 

 1820?; d. 28 April, 1879. B.A. Oxon, 1843 ; M.A., 1848. 

 Eector, Itchen Abbas, Dorset, 1850-74. Contrib. to Phyt. iv. 

 ' Handy book to collection of Freshwater AlgsB," 1867. 

 ' Handbook of Plants of Tasmania,' 1873. Jacks. 608 ; E. S. C. 

 viii. 989. 



Spittall, Robert (fl. 1829-46). Surgeon. Of Edinburgh. 

 President, Plinian Nat. Hist. Soc, 1829. Experimented on 

 Mimosa pudica, Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1830, 60. E. S. C. 

 V. 776. 



Spottswood, — (fl. 1673). Surgeon. Lived at Tangier. Cata- 

 logue of Tangier plants, 1673, Phil. Trans, xix. 239. Plants 

 in Hb. Delessert. Sent plants to Morison. Lasegue, 440, 

 504. 



Spratt, George (fl. 1829-43). M.E.C.S. Editor of 'Flora 

 Medica ' (published anonymously), 1829-30. ' Medico- 

 botanical Pocket-book,' 1836. Supplied medico-botanical 

 portion and superintended colouring plates of WoodviUe's 

 ' Medical Botany,' ed. 3, 1832. Pritz. 303. 



Stackhouse, John (1742-1819) : b. Trehane, Cornwall, 1742 ; 

 d. Bath, 22 Nov., 1819. Fellow, Exeter CoUege, Oxford, 

 1761-4. F.L.S., 1795. ' Nereis Britannica,' 1795-1801 ; 

 ed. 2, 1816. Translated Theophrastus' Hist. PI., 1811. Pritz. 

 304 ; Jacks. 608 ; E. S. C. v. 787 ; Gent. Mag. 1820, i. 88. 

 Portr. in his Theophrastus. Stackhousia Sm. 



Stanger, Hon. William (1813 ?-54): b. Wisbech, Cambridgesh., 

 1813?; d. Durban, Natal, 14 March, 1864. F.B.S.Ed., 

 1836. M.D. Edin. Visited Australia. Practised in London. 

 On the Niger Expedition, 1841. Surveyor-General, Natal. 

 Discovered Stangeria. Journ. Bot. 1863, 228 ; Athenaeum, 

 1854, 749. Stangeria Moore. 



Stanhope, Philip Henry, 4th Earl (1781-1855) : b. London, 

 7 Dec, 1781 ; d. Chevening Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, 2 March, 

 1866. M.P., 1806. Succeeded, 1816. Pres. Med.-Bot. Soc. 

 Lond., 1829-36. Gent. Mag. 1855, ii. 89. Stanhopea Hook. 



Stansfield, Abraham (1802-80) : b. Hugeon, Croft, Kebcote- 

 in-Stansfield, 12 Jan., 1802 ; d. Todmorden, Cheshire, 16 

 Aug., 1880. Nurseryman, of "Vale Gardens, Todmorden. 

 First Pres., Todmorden Bot. Soc, 1862. Collected vars. of 

 Brit, ferns. Catalogues of Ferns. Jacks. 162. Gard. Chron. 

 1880, ii. 283. 



Stark, Robert Mackenzie (1815-73) : b. Dirleton, East 

 Lothian, 1815; d. London, 29 Sept., 1873. Nurseryman in 

 Edinburgh. F.B.S.Ed., 1841. ' Muscology of Cirencester,' 

 Ann. & Mag. iv. (1840), 211. 'Popular Hist. Brit. Mosses,' 

 1858. Pritz. 304 ; Jacks. 609 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. xii. 29. 



Staunton, Sir George Leonard, Bart. (1737-1801) : b. 

 Cargin, Galway, 1737 ; d. London, 14 Jan., 1801 ; bur. in 



