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of Indian Museum. ' Growth of Cotton in India,' 1859 » 

 ' Index to Native Names,' 1868. ' Flowers and Gardens,' 

 1872, Jacks. 221 ; Athenseum, Aug. 6, 1892. 



Watson, Peter William (1761-1830) : b. Hull, Aug., 1761 ; d. 

 Hull, 1 Sept., 1830. F.L.S., 1824. One of the founders of 

 Hull Bot. Garden. ' Dendrologia Britannica,' 1825. Pritz. 

 340; Jacks. 244; Loudon, Gard. Mag., vii. 512 ; 'Arbore- 

 tum,' 188 ; Corlass, ' Sketches of Hull Authors,' 109. 



Watson, Sir William (1715-87) : b. London, 1715 ; d. Lon- 

 don, 10 May, 1787. Apothecary and Physician. F.E.S., 

 1741. M.D., Halle and Wittenberg, 1757 ; L.E.C.P., 1759 ; 

 F.E.G.P., 1784. Knighted, 1786. Electrician. Papers in 

 Phil. Trans. xUi.-liii. Pult. ii. 295 ; Linn. Corr. ii. 481 ; 

 Munk, ii. 348 ; Felton, 142 ; Michaud. Oil portr. by L. 

 Abbot at Eoy. Soc, engr. by Eyder, 1791. Watsonia Miller 

 = Antholyza. 



Watt, Mrs. (fl. 1801). Of Birmingham. Sent AlgEB to "Wither- 

 ing and Stackhouse. Stackhouse, ' Nereis,' xxix. 



Watts, Charles (fl. 1680). Apothecary. Curator of Chelsea 

 Garden, circ. 1680. Eay Lett. 158-9 ; Evelyn, Memoirs, i, 

 606 ; Loudon, Encyc. Gard., 276 ; Semple. 



Watts, Rev. John Stanhawe (fl. 1750-1800). Of Ashill, 

 Norfolk. B.A. Camb., 1772 ; F.L.S., 1798. Contrib. to B. 

 Bot. 544, 556, 667. 



Wauch, Captain (fl. 1824). Of Foxhall. Contributed Fungi 

 to Greville's ' Fl. Edinensis,' vii. 



Waugh, Richard (fl. 1805). One of editors of ' Bot. Guide 

 Northumberland and Durham.' E. Bot. 1163, 1526; Jacks. 

 257 



Wavellj William (fl. 1783-1823). M.D. Edinburgh. F.L.S., 

 1823. Partner and successor of Wilham Curtis in Grace- 

 church Street. Practised as physician at Barnstaple. E. 

 Bot. 1612 ; Thornton, ' Life of Curtis,' 4-5 ; Fl. Midd. 393. 



Weaver, Thomas (1803 ?-75): b. 1808?; d. Winchester, 31 

 Jan., 1875. Gardener, Winchester College. Knew Brit. pi. 

 Under Baxter at Oxford Bot. Gard. Gard. Chron. 1875, i. 

 149. 



Webb, Frederick Morgan (1841-80) ; b. Stafford, 1841 ; d. 

 Edinburgh, Oct., 1880. F.B.S.E. Memb. Bot. Exchange 

 Club. Curator of Edinburgh Bot. Gard. Critical on Bosa 

 and Bubus. Edited ' Flora of Liverpool,' 1866. ' Utricu- 

 laria Bremii,' Joum. Bot. 1876. Contributed to Top. Bot., 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. xiii. Journ. Bot. 1880, 382. 



Webb, Philip Barker (1773-1854) : b. Milford, Surrey, 1793 ; 

 d. Paris, 31 Aug., 1854. B.A. Oxon, 1815 ; F.L.S., 1818. 

 In the East, 1818 ; in Spain, 1826 ; Madeira, 1828-30 ; Ire- 

 land, 1851. ' Iter Hispaniense,' 1838. ' Otia Hispanica,' 

 1839. ' Histoire Naturelle des Canaries,' 1835-49. ' Frag- 

 menta Florulse .^thiopico-.^gyptiac8e,' 1848-9. ' Spicilegia,' 

 1849. Herbarium at Florence. Pritz. 340 ; Jacks. 619 ; 

 E. S. C. vi. 286 ; J. Gay, in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, 1856 ; 

 Michaud. Litho. portr. at Kew. Wehhia DC. = Vemonia. 



