174 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Velley, Thomas (1749 ?-1806) : b. Chipping Ongar, Essex, 

 1749?; d. Beading, Berks., 8 June, 1806. Lieut.-Col., Ox- 

 ford Militia. D.C.L., 1787 ; P.L.S., 1792. Of Bath, and 

 afterwards Liverpool. Algologist. ' Coloured figs, of Marine 

 Plants,' 1795. Correspondent of Dawson Turner. Herba- 

 rium, 18 vols., with notes, in Liverpool Bot. Gard. Pritz. 

 330; Jacks. 242; E. S. C. vi. 131 (omitting No. 4) ; Smith 

 Corr. ii. 343 ; Linn. Trans, v. 145 ; E. B. 1690 ; Ann. Bot. 

 ii. 593; Naturalist, iv. (1839), 398; Gent. Mag. Ixxvi. 1806, 

 vi. 588. Velleia Sm. 



Vernon, William (fl. 1688-95). B.A. Camb., 1688 ; M.A., 

 1692. Studied Mosses. Sent plants from Maryland to 

 Petiver. Plants from E. Indies and Maryland in Herb. 

 Sloane (59, 72, &e.). Mus. Pet. nos. 89, 566. Vernoma 

 Schreb. 



Vicary, N. (fl. 1835-53). Major, 2nd European Eegt. ' Botany 

 of Sinde,' Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 420. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xvi. 1152 (1847). " Small but very valuable herbarium " at 

 Kew, Fl. Indica, i. 70. E. S. C. vi. 149. Vicarya WaU. = 

 Myriopteron. 



Voigt, Johann Otto (1798-1843) : b. Nordborg, Sleswick, 22 

 March, 1798 ; d. London, 22 June, 1843. Surgeon to Danish 

 Govt., Serampore, 1827; Supt. Bot. Gard., Serampore, 1834; 

 of Bot. Gard., Calcutta, 1842. ' Hortus Suburbanus Calcut- 

 tensis' (ed. Griffith), 1845. Pref. to Hort. Suburb. Calc. 



Wade, Walter (d. 1825) : d. Dublin, 1825. M.D. A.L.S., 1792. 



Prof, to Eoy. Dublin Soc. Caused establishment of their 



garden, 1790. ' Catalogus pi. in com. Dublinense,' 1794. 



' PlantsB rariores in Hibern.,' 1804. ' Lectures on Grasses,' 



1808. ' Salices,' 1811. DiscoYereA Eriocaulon. Pritz. 336; 



Jacks. 617; E.S.C.vi. 221; Smith Corr. ii. 127, 147, 160: 



' Irish Flora,' vii. ; Mag. Nat. Hist. 1829, 305. 

 Wakefield, Priscilla, nee Bell (1751-1832) : b. Tottenham, 



Middlesex, 1751; d. Ipswich, Suffolk, 12 Sept., 1832; m. 



Edward Wakefield, 1771. ' Introduction to Botany,' 1796 ; 



ed. 8, 1818. Pritz. 337 ; Jacks. 36 ; Eose ; Friends' Books, 



ii. 848 ; Gent. Mag. 1882, ii. 650. 

 Walcott, John (fl. 1778-1822). Of Highnam Court, Gloucester. 



' Flora Britannica Indigena,' 1778. Pritz. 337 ; Jacks. 283. 

 Walford, Thomas (fl. 1750-1818). Of Birdbrook, Essex. F.L.S., 



1797. Correspondent of Sowerby. ' Scientific Tourist,' 1818. 



Contrib. to E. Bot. 259, 446, 630. MS. in Bot. Dept., Mus. 



Brit. Jacks. 233 ; E. S. C. vi. 239. 

 Walker, A. W., nee Paton (fl. 1830-55). Wife of Colonel 



J. T. Walker. 'Tour in Ceylon,' Journ. Bot. 1840, 223. 



Ascended Adam's Peak, Comp. Bot. Mag. i. (1855), 3. Wight. 



Illustr. i. 18. CoUected in Ceylon, 1830-40. Plants at Kew. 



E. S. C. vi. 239. Patonia Wight = Xylopia. 

 Walker, Rev. James (d. before 1880). M.A. Head-master, 



King's School, Parramatta. Woolls, 'Indigenous PI. Sydney,' 



p.l. 



