pdf 31 MB - BSBI Archive

Biographical indkx of British and ikish botanists. 281
Seller, William (1798-1869) : b. Peterhead, 1798 ; d. Edinburgh ?,
11 April, 1869. M.D., Edhi., 1821. F.B.S. Ed., 1848, Pres.,
1857. 'Nutrition of Plants,' Edin. New. Phil. Journ. xxxix.
50. ' Plants from Davis' Straits,' Traus. Bot. Soc. Ed. ii. 215.
Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. x. 203.
Seward, John (fi. 1794). M.D. Of Worcester. A.L.S., 1796.
Discovered Hypericum dubiitm. E. B. 296.
Seymer, Henry (1745-1800) : b. Hauford, Dorset, 1745 ; d.
3 Dec, 1800. Of Hanford, Dorset. B.C.L. Oxon. 1771.
D.C.L. 1777. Friend of Pulteney and Solander. Step-uncle
of A. B. Lambert. Had a garden of exotics. Pursh, Fl. Amer.
Sept. ii. 737, Nich. Anec. viii. 201. Hutchins' Hist, of Dorset,
iv. 66. Oil portr. at Linn. Soc. Seymerut Parsh.
Sharpe, Daniel (1806-1856) : b. Marylebone, 1806 ; d. London,
1856. Geologist. Collected in Portugal. F.G.S., 1827.
F.L.S., 1828. Fossil and Portuguese pi. in Herb. Mus. Brit.
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xiii. 1857, xlv. E. B. 2990.
R. S. C. V. 672. Engr. portr. in Bot. Dep. Brit. Mus.
Sharrock, Robert (fl. 1660-1694). Fellow of New Coll., Oxford.
' History of Propagation of Vegetables,' 1660. ' History of
Plants,' 1694. Pritz. 296.
Shaw, George (1751-1813): b. Bierton, Bucks, 10 Dec, 1751;
d. British Museum, 22 July, 1818. B.A. Oxon. 1769. M.D.,
1787. V.P.L.S., 1789. F.R.S., 1789. Deputy Bot. Lecturer
to Sibthorp at Oxford, 1786. Assistant Keeper of Nat. Hist.
Mus. Brit., 1791. Keeper, 1807. ' Cimelia Physica,' 1796.
Wrote descriptions ' for Freeman's Select Specimens of British
Plants,' and also some for Eng. Bot. Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 304.
Gent. Mag. 1813, ii. 290.
Shaw, Henry (1800-1889): b. Sheffield, 24 July, 1800; d. St.
Louis, Missouri, 25 Aug., 1889. Merchant. Founded Missouri
Bot. Garden, 1848 ; est.ibhshed Shaw School of Botany, Washington
University : published Engelmann's Botanical Papers,
1887. Gard. Chron. viii. (1890), 46.
Shaw, Rev. Thomas (1698-1751): b. Kendal, Westmoreland,
1693; d. Oxford, 15 Aug., 1751 ; bur. Braniley, Hants.
B.A. Oxon., 1716.
Algiers till 1738.
D.D., 1784. F.B.S., 1734. CJiaplam at
Principal of St. Edmund Hall and Vicar of
Braraley, 1740. 'Travels in Barbary,' 1738, w. appendix,
enumerating pi., by Dillcnius. PI. at Kew, Journ. Bot. 1880,
256. Pult. ii. 173; Pritz. 296; Jacks. 346. Forster, Gen.
p. 96 ; Nich. Anecd. ii. 287 ; Nich. lUustr. i. 287. Nicholson,
' Annals
of Kendal,' 340. Shawia Forst. ::= Olearia.
Sheffield, Rev. William (1732 ?-1795) : b. Henley, Warwick,
1782'?; (I. Oxford?, '28 June, 1795. B.A. Oxon., 1754. D.D.,
1778. Keeper of Ashmolcan Museum, 1772-1795. Early
friend of Banks. ' Botanico Oxonicnsi imprimis perito,' Forster,
Gen. t. ix. Rees. Nich. lUustr. v. 517. S/n'jfirldui Forst.
= Sainolub.
( I'o be continued.)