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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 307
Sherard, James (1666-1737) : b. Bushby, Leicestersh., 1666 ;
d. 12 Feb., 1737 ; bur. Evington, uear Leicester. Apothecary.
M.D. Oxon., 1731. F.R.C.P., 1732. F.R.S. Youuger brother
of the followmg. Employed Dillenius to write ' Hortus Elthamensis,'
1732. Had a garden at Eltham. Pult. ii. 150 ; R. Syu.
iii. pref. ; Semple, 44 ; Mimk. ii. 127. Loudon, ' Arboretum,'
81. Nich. Anecd. iii. 651. Nich. Ilkistr. i. 403. Druce, Fl.
Osf. 383, 385.
Sherard, William, ne Sherwood (1659-1728); b. Bushby,
Leicestersh., 1659 ; d. London, 12 Aug., 1728 ; bur. at Eltham,
Kent. B.C.L. Oxon., 1683. D.C.L., 1694. F.R.S., 1718.
Pupil of Tournefort. ' Schola Botanica,' under pseudonym
Sajiuel Wharton, 1689. Visited Cornwall and Jersey, R. Syn.
ed. 1, 1690, Appendix. Edited Herman's ' Paradisus Batavus,'
1698. Consul at Smyrna, 1703-15. Brought Dillenius to England.
Founded Chair of Bot. at Oxford, and bequeathed library,
herbarium of 12,000 species, and MS. 'Pinax' to University.
Plants in Hb. Sloane. Pult. ii. 141 ; Rees ; Jacks. 606 ; Rich.
Corr. 293 ; Gorham, 11 ; Journ. Bot. 1874, 129 ; Semple, 48
Gent. Mag. Ixvi. ;
Sherardia L.
Nich. Illustr. i. 339, &c. ; Druce, Fl. Oxf. 380.
Short, Thomas (d. 1772) : b. Edinburgh ; d. Rotherham, 28 Nov.,
1772 ; bur. Sheffield Church. M.D. Of Sheffield, and, from
1762, of Rotheram. ' Explanation of technical words in Bot.,'
1731. ' Medicina Britannica,' 1746. Pritz. 296 ; Jacks. 245 ;
Nich. Anecd. i. 451 ; Gent. Mag. Ixxvii, Ixxviii ; Allibone.
Shuter, James (d. before 1834). M.D. F.L.S., 1819. Collected
about Madras.
Chois.
Wight Prodr. 208. Shiiteria Wight. Shutereia
Shuttleworth, Robert James (1810-1874) : b. Dawlish, Devon,
Feb. 1810 ; d. Hyeres, lUth April, 1874. Captain, 1st Regiment,
Duke of Lancaster's Own, 1833. F.L.S., 1856. Orig. memb.
B.S.Ed. Conchologist and critical botanist. Resided many
years at Berne. ' Excursion in the Valais,' Mag. Zool. Bot.
1838. Had large herbarium, now in Herb. Brit. Mus. (see
Journ. Bot. 1878, 179). Jacks. 158 ; R. S. C. v. 681 ; Trans.
Bot. Soc. Ed. xii. 203; Bull. Soo. Bot. France, xxx. cxxxi.
Whittle, Hist. Preston, ii. 235 ; Journ. de Conch, xxiii. 92.
Slnitth'wnrtfiia Meisn. = Verbena.
Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-c. 1712)
: b. near Leslie, Fife, 15th
April, 1041 ; d. c. 1712. M.D., Leyden, 1061. F.R.C.P.,
1080. First Prof. Medicine, Univ. Edinb. 1085. Knighted,
1682. ' Cat. of PI. in King's Park, Edinb.,' 1084, * Scotia
Filustrata,' 1084. Pult. ii. 3; Pritz. 290; Jacks. 240; Munk,
i. 439; Autobiog., 1833, and in 'Analecta Scotica,' i. 120.
Sihhuldifi L.
Sibthorp, John (1758-1790) : b. Oxford, 1758 ; d. Bath, 8th Feb.
1790; bur. Bath Abbey. M.A., Oxon, 1780. M.D., 1784.
Prof. Bot., Oxford, 1783-1795. F.L.S., 1788. F.R.S. Travelled
in Greece with Ferdinand Bauer, 1780-87, and in Cyprus,
Asia Minor, &c., 1794-95. • Flora Oxouiensis,' 1794. 'Flora
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