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BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



1249 ; Gard. Chron. 1871, 554 ; Gash, 145 ; Joum. Bot. 1871, 

 159; Trans. B. S. Ed. xi. 171. Photo at Kew. Wilsonip, 

 Gill & Hook = Dipyrena. 



Winch, Nathaniel John (1769 ?-1838) : b. 1769?; d. New- 

 castle, 5 May, 1838. F.L.S., 1803;. A.L.S., 1821. 'Bot. 

 Guide to Northumb. and Durham,' 1807, ' Geog. distrib. of 

 pi. through Northumb.,* 1819; ed. 2, 1825. MS8. and 

 herbarium of 12,000 spp. left to Linn. Soc, and given by them 

 to Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumb. and Durham; Contrib, 

 Mosses to B. Bot. (1218, 1946). Discovered Pyrola media 

 in Britain. Pritz. 348; Jacks. 621 ; E.S. C. vi. 392; Mag. 

 Zool. Bot. i. (1838), 415 ; Mag. Nat. Hist. 1830. Portr. at 

 Kew. Winchia A. DC. 



Windsor, John (1787-1868) : b. Settle, 1787 ; d. Manchester^ 

 1 Sept., 1868. F.L.S., 1814. Surgeon. * Thlaspi alpestre, 

 Joum. Linn. Soc. x. 196. ' Settle Plants ' in Phyt. 1855-8, 

 ' Flora Gravoniensis ' (posth.), 1873. Had a herbarium, 

 Jacks. 250 ; E. S. C. vi. 395 ; viii. 1251 ; E. Bot. 2211 ; Pref, 

 to Fl. Gravoniensis ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1868-9, cxx. Windsorw, 

 Mitt. 



Winterbottom, James Edv7ard (1803-54) : b. Beading, 7 

 April, 1803; d. Ehodes, 4 July, 1854. M.A., 1828; M.B., 

 1833 ; P.L.S., 1830. Collected in Himalayas and Tibet, with 

 Strachey, 1848-9. Plants at Kew, &c. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 

 ,418 ; Journ. Bot. 1854, 307, 245; Fl. Indica, i. 65. 



Witham, Henry T. M. (fl. 1831-3). Of Edinburgh ? ' Ob- 

 servations on structure of fossil vegetables,' 1831. Pritz. 350; 

 Jacks. 621 ; E. S. C. vi. 404. 



Withering, William (1741-99) : b. "Wellington, Salop, 28 March, 

 1741 ; d. Birmingham, 6 Oct. 1799 ; bur. Edgbaston. M.D. 

 Edin.,1866. F.E.S. ; F.L.S., 1791. Practised at Stafford, 

 and afterwards at Birmingham. ' Systematic Arrangement 

 of Brit. PI.,' 1776. Pritz. 350 ; Jacks. 621 ; Cott. Gard. vii. 

 43 ; Gard. Mag. iv. 536 ; Phil. Trans, xv. ; Colvile, ' Worthies 

 of Warwickshire,' 837 ; ' Miscellaneous Tracts,' with memoir 

 by his son. Portr. in Thornton. Copy at Kew. Witheringia 

 L'Hdrit. 



Withering, William (d. 1832) : d. London, 1832. Of Birming- 

 ham. F.L.S.,1801. Son of the preceding. Edited 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th ed. of his father's ' Arrangement,' and his ' Miscel- 

 laneous Tracts.' Pritz. 350 ; Jacks. 234. 



Withers, Robert (d. 1856). Of Bath. ' Scivpus Sa/vii,' &c., 

 Phyt. iii. 865. Had a British herbarium, especiallyof Bath 

 plants. E. S. C. vi. 404. 



Witt, Christopher (1675-1765) : b. WUtshire, 1675 ; d. German- 

 town, Philadelphia, 1765. Physician. In Pennsylvania from 

 1704. Friend of Bartram and Collinson. 'Memorials of 

 Bartram,' p. 86. 



Wonfor, Thomas W. (1827 ?-78) : d. Brighton, 20 Oct., 1878. 

 F.L.S., 1877. Hon. Sec. Brighton and Sussex Nat. Hist. 

 Soc.i 1853-78. Microscopist. Naturalist, iv. 75 (1878-9) J 

 il. S. C. viii. 1266. 



