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d. Berwick, near Shrewsbury, 11 Sept., 1794. Of St. James's, 

 "Westminster. F.E.S. ' Plants found in several parts of 

 England,' Phil. Trans. Ixi. 369. Gent. Mag. 1794, ii. 966, 1051. 

 Waring, Miss S. (fl. 1827-41). ' The Meadow Queen, or the 

 Young Botanists,' 1836. Jacks. 486 ; AUibone. 



Warner, Richard (1711-75): b. London?, 1711; d. Wood- 

 ford, Essex, 11 April, 1775 ; bur. Woodford. Corres- 

 pondent of Linnaeus. 'Plantse Woodfordiensis,' 1771. Her- 

 baria at Wadham Coll., Oxford, and in possession of Essex 

 Field Club. Pult. ii. 281 ; Pritz. 339 ; Jacks. 262 ; Gibson, 

 Fl. Essex, 147 ; Eose ; AUibone. Oil portr. in possession of 

 Sir Arthur Jervoise at Idsworth. Warneria Mill. = Hy- 

 drastis. 



Warren, Miss Elizabeth Andrew (d. 1864) : d. Flushing, Corn- 

 wall, 5 May, 1864. Algologist. Of Flushing. ' Bot. Chart for 

 Schools,' 1839. List of Falmouth Algse in Eept. Cornwall 

 Polytechnic Soc, 1849. E. S. C. vi. 269; Eept. Cornw. 

 Polytech. Soc, 1864, 11 ; Journ. Bot. 1865, 101. Schizosi- 

 phon Warrenia, Casp. 



Waterhouse, Benjamin (1754-1846) : b. Newport, Ehode 

 Island, 4 March, 1754; d. Cambridge, Mass., 2 Oct., 1846. 

 M.D. Leyden, 1780. Pupil of Fothergill. Prof. Medicine, 

 Harvard, 1783 ; of Nat. Hist., Brown University, 1784. 

 Founded Harvard Bot. Garden. Correspondent of Smith, 

 Corr. ii. 173. 'The Botanist,' 1811. Appleton. 



Watkins, Burton Mounsher (1816-92) : b. Liverpool, Dec, 

 1816 ; d. Treaddow, near Eoss, Herefordsh., 30 July, 1892. 

 ' Florula of Dowards ' in Trans. Woolhope Field Nat. Soc, 

 1881. Contrib. to ' Fl. Herefordshire,' 1889. E. S. C. vi. 

 279, viii. 1202 ; Journ. Bot., 1892, 319. 



Watkins, Charles R. W. (fl. 1855-74). Capt. in Bombay Army. 

 ' Principles of Botany," 1858. Pritz. 339 ; Jacks. 43. 



Watlington, John (d. 1659) : bur. Eeading, 2 Oct., 1659. 

 Friend of Ashmole. "Apothecary in Eeading, and a very 

 good botanist," Ashmole's ' Life,' pp. 307, 308, 326. 



Watson, Alexander (fl. 1825). " Militumpraefectus." 'Flora 

 Sta Helenica,' 1825. Pritz. 339. 



Watson, Hewett Cottrell (1804-81) : b. Firbeck, Yorkshire, 

 1804 ; d. Thames Ditton, Surrey, 27 July, 1881 ; bur. Thames 

 Ditton Churchyard. F.L.S., 1834. ' Outlines of distrib. of 

 Brit. PI.,' 1832. ' Eemarks on Distrib.,' 1835. ' New Bot. 

 Guide,' 1835-7. 'Cybele Brit.,' 1847-60. 'Compendium,' 

 1868-70. ' Top. Bot.,' 1878-4 ; ed. 2, 1883. Contributed to 

 ' Phytol.' o.s. Discovered Bammculus tripartitus in Britain, 

 B. Bot. 2946. Herb, of Brit. pi. at Kew, of others at Owens 

 College, Manchester. MSS. in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. Pritz. 

 340; Jacks. 618; E. S. C. vi. 280; viii. 1202; Life, with 

 photo, portr., Journ. Bot. 1881, 257 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 

 177. Photo, at Kew. 



Watson, John Forbes (d. 1892) : d. Bournemouth, July, 1892. 

 M.D. F.L.S., 1869. Indian Army Medical Service ; Eeporter 

 to Government on Products of India ; afterwards Director 



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