182 BIOGEAPHICAIi INDEX OF 



Wildgose, Robert (fl. 1820-30). Of Daventry. List of pi. in 

 Baker's ' Hist, of Northants,' 1822-30. 



Wilford, Charles (fl. 1857). Kew collector. In Formosa with 

 Swinhoe in 1857-8 in H.M.S. ' Inflexible.' Fl, Hongkong. 

 11*, Plants at Kew. Hemionitis Wilfordi Hook. 



Wilkin, Simon (1790-1862) : b. Cossey, Norfolk, 27 July, 1790 ; 

 ■d. Hampstead, 28 July, 1862. F.L.S., 1811. Friend of J. E. 

 Smith. Had private bot. garden at Cossey. Sent Conferva 

 . capillaris to B. Bot. (2364). Proc. Linn. Soc. 1862-3, xlvi, 



Wilkins, Miss (fl. 1847). Discovered Simethis at Bournemouth, 

 1847. Gard. Chron. 1847, 467. 



Wilkinson, Caroline, Lady, nSe Ijucas (1822-81) : b. Llandebie, 

 Caermarthen, 10 May, 1822; d. Llandovery, 2 Oct., 1881; 

 bur. Llandovery. Wife of following. 'Weeds and Wild 

 Flowers,' 1858. Made drawings of fungi. Pritz. 347 ; Jacks. 

 215 ; Journ. Bot. 1882, 159, 



Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner (1797-1875) : b. Chelsea, Mid* 

 dlesex, 1797 ; d. Llandovery, 29 Oct., 1875 ; bur. Llandovery. 

 D.C.L. Ox., 1852 ; F.E.S. Knighted, 1839. Egyptologist. 

 Collected in Egypt, 1823-30, and made drawings. Plants in 

 Hb. Brit. Mus. Journ. Bot. 1880, 224 ; Athenaeum, 1875, 

 ii. 610. 



Wilkinson, George (fl. 1803). Surgeon at Sunderland. ' Ex- 

 periments on Cortex Salicis Latifolise,' 1803. Jacks. 205. 



Wilkinson, Hannah Elizabeth, nSe NayijOb (1810-92) : b. 

 Bartley-Car, Yorksh., 6 May, 1810 ; d. Anerley, Surrey, 24 

 Jan., 1892 ; bur. St. Margaret's, Lee, Kent ; m. Edward Smith 

 WUkinson, of White Webbs Park, Enfield, 1849. Herbariimi 

 presented to London School of Medicine for Women. Oil 

 portr. in possession of family. 



WUliams, Charles (fl. 1828-35). Of Salisbury. ' The Vegetable 

 World,' ed. 2, 1833. Pritz. 348 ; Jacks. 38. 



WUliams, Rev. Edward (1762 ?-1833) : b. Eaton, Salop, 1762?; 

 d. Chelsfield, Kent, 3 Jan., 1833. M.A. Oxon, 1787. In- 

 cumbent of Battlefield and Uffington, Salop, 1786. Eector 

 of Chelsfield, 1817. ' Shropshire Lichens,' Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. i. 183 (1868). MS. Flora of Shropshire in possession 

 of Lord Berwick. Had a herbarium. Discovered Elatine 

 hexand/ra in Britain, Aug., 1798. Contrib. to E. Bot; (904, 

 955, 2360). E. S. C. viii. 1243 ; Leighton, Fl. Shrops., pref. 



Williams, John (fl. 1830). Of Llanrwst. ' Faunula Grusten, 

 sis : the natural contents of Llanrwst ; also a cat. in Latin, 

 EngUsh and Welsh, of the animals and plants,' 1830. 



Williams, Joseph (fl. 1850). M.D. Lecturer on Bot., Dublin. 

 Eevised 3rd ed. of J. H. Balfour's ' Manual,' 1848. ' Botanists' 

 Vade-Mecum,' 1855 ; ed. 2, 1856. Jacks. 217. 



Williams, J. (fl. 1825). ' Dissert, de succi circuitu,' 1825. Pritz, 

 348. 



Williams, Lady (Saeah Elizabeth) nie Amheest (d. 1876) : 

 m. Sir John Hay Williams, Bart., 1842. Daughter of Lord 

 and Lady Amherst. Travelled m India, 1823-8, Wall. PI. 

 Asiat. Ear. i. 1. Amherstia Wall. 



