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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND HUSH BOTANISTS.
187'
804. Bust on tomb. Plants in Herb. Sloano, 61, 72, 79, 114,
145, 146. llic/uirdia L. ; Richanhonia Kunth.
Richardson, Rev. William (1740-1820): b. Ireland,
Clonfele, Co. Antrim, 1820. D.D. Agriculturist.
1740; d.
Of Moy
and Clonfele, ' Useful Grasses,' Trans. Irisb Acad, xi. 88
(1810). 'Fiorin Grass,' Phil. Mag. 1816, 136. E. S. C.
V. 190 ; Donaldson's Agric. Biogr. 108.
Richardson, Rev. William (d. 1768): b. Ullswater, Cumberland.
Rector of Dacre, Camberl.uiA, 1742. Prepared the flora for
Hutchinson's ' Hist, of Cumberland.' Uaker, Fl. Lake District,
9 ; Bot. Guide, 143.
Richardson, William (1797-1879): b. Hebburn, Northumberland,
31st Aug., 1797 ; d. Alnwick, 18th April, 1879. Saddler.
Of Alnwick. Member of Bot. Exchange Club. Discovered
Psamma haltica. Journ. Bot. 1872 21 ; Proc. Berwicksh. Field
Club, ix. 184 ; E. S. C. v. 67 (" W. E., jun.") viii. 744.
Riley, J. (d. 1846) : d. York, 1846. Of Papplewick, near Nottingham.
F.B.S.E. Local Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond. 1843. ' Hybridity
in ferns,' Proc. Bot. Soc. Lond. 60. ' Catalogue of Ferns,
after Sprengel,' 1841. Had a fern herbarium. Phyt. ii. 779 ;
Pritz. 264.
Ritchie, Joseph (d. 1821) : d. Mourzouk, 26tb November, 1821.
African Traveller. Collected near Tripoli, &c., and made notes
and Clapperton's Travels,'
on the plants. Appendix to ' Denham
209 ; Huish, ' Travels of E. and J. Lander.' Ritchiea Br.
Ritson, A. (fl. 1832). ' Spring Flowers,' 1832. Jacks. 38.
Roberts, John (d. before 1843). A.L.S. Miller. Of Norwich,
late of Salisbury. Helped Maton with botany of Salisbury.
Maton, 'Nat. Hist. Wilts,' 10.
Roberts, Miss Mary (1789-1864): b. Painswick ?, Gloucestershire,
1789; d. Brompton, 13th Jan., 1864; bm-. Brompton
Cemetery. ' Wonders of Veg. Kingdom,' 1822. ' Annals of
my Village,' 1831. ' Plants and Animals of America,' 1839.
' Voices from the Woodlands,' 1850. Jacks. 245 ; Friends'
Books, ii. 500 ; Allibone.
Robertson, Archibald (fl. 1822). M.D. Of Edinburgh. ' Colloquia
de rebus prtDcipuis physiologite Vegetabilium atque
botanices,' 1822. Pritz. 265.
Robertson, Benjamin (d. 1800). Of Stockwell. Had a bot.
garden at Stockwell. Friend of A. H. Haworth. Haworth,
' Miscellanies,' 190. llubcrtsunia Haw. = Saxi/rmja.
Robertson, John (d. 1865): b. Perthshire; d. Glasgow, 24tli
March, 1865. A. B. S. Ed. 1863. Gardener at Kew and at
Kinfauns Castle. Prepared ' Flora of Perthshire ' (unpublished).
Trans. Bot. Soc. ed. viii. 337 ; E. S. C. v. 230.
Robertson, William (ll. 1814). Of Newcastle. Friend of Alder
and Hancock. " A very accurate investigator of lichens."
E. Bot. 2602.
Robinson, Anthony (d. before 1814j. Surgeon. Of Sunderland.
Went to Jamaica. MSS. much used by Lunan in ' Ilortus
Jamaicensib ' (see 'Notice to subscribers' and i. 273).