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BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 309
Bart., 1780. ' Hints on Vegetation,' 1796. ' Inquiry into . . .
Blight,' 1809. Jacks. 67 ; Memoir by liev. Jolin Sinclair, 1837
Gent. Mag. 1836, i. 431 ; Donaldson, Agric. Biog.
Skeen, James (11. 1703). Surgeon. Sent plants from Guinea to
Petiver, Mus, Pet. 95.
Skene, David (1735 ?-1771) : b. Aberdeen, 1735?; d. Aberdeen,
Dec. 1771. M.D., Aberdeen. Had a herbarium. Corresponded
with Linnanis. Murray, ' Northern Flora,' ix.
Skepper, Edmund (1825-1867): b. Oulton, Suffolk, 20th Oct.
1825 ; d. Bury St. Edmunds, 2ud Jmie, 1867 ; bur. Bury
Cemetery. Druggist at Harwich and Bury. * Flora of Suffolk,'
1860. Jacks. 260; Hind's ' Fl. Suffolk,' 485.
Skinner, — . (H. 1772). "Acutissimus oculatissimusque Botanicus
Oxoniensi," Foist. Gen. p. 58. Skinnera Forst.
Skinner, George Ure (1804-1867): b. Newcastle, 18th March,
1804; d. Aspinwall, Panama, 9th Jan. 1867. F.L.S., 1866.
Merchant in Leeds and Guatemala. Collected and grew
Orchids. Trans. B. S. Ed. ix. 91 ; Gard. Chron. 1867, 180
Proc. Linn. Soc. 1866-7, xxxviii. Uroskinnera Lindl.
Skrimshire, William (1766-1830). Entomologist. Of Wisbech.
Contrib. to Eng. Bot. (379, 423, 463, 1369).
Sleeman, Sir William Henry (1788-1856) :
K. S. C. v. 712.
b. Stratton, Cornwall,
1788 ; d. at sea on passage from Calcutta, 10th Feb.
1856. H. E. I. C. military service, 1808. Major-general, 1855.
K.C.B., 1856. 'Age and Flowering of Bamboos,' Trans. Agric.
Soc. India, 1839-1842. E. S. C. v. 714 ; Gent. Mag. 1856,
ii. 243 ; Allibone.
Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753): b. Killileagh, Co. Down, 16th
April, 1660; d. Chelsea, 11th Jan. 1753; bur. Chelsea Churchyard.
M.D., Orange, 1684; Oxon, 1701. F.E.S., 1685.
P.K.S., 1727-1740. F.R.C.P., 1687. P.E.C.P., 1719-1735.
Baronet, 1715. For. Memb. Acad. Sci., 1708. Pupil of
Tournefort. ' Catalogus PI. Jamaic.,' 1696. 'Nat. Hist, of
Jamaica,' 1707-1725. Gave Chelsea Garden to Apothecaries'
Company. Herbarium, 240 vols., library, and MSS. in Mus.
Mem.
Eay Brit. Pult. ii. 65 ; Eees ; Pritz. 298 ; Jacks. 607 :
40 ; Nich. Illustr. i. 269 ; Munk, i. 460 ; Literary Mag. 1790,
with portr. by Angus ; Faulkner's Chelsea, i. 338, with portr.
engr. T. Prescott; Semple, with portr., 26. Statue by Eysbrach
in Chelsea Garden. Wedgwood medallion. Portr. at
E.C.P. by T. Murray, engr. Faber, 1728. Portr. by Kneller,
1716, engr. Faber, 1729. Sldanca L.
Smart, John (£1. 1708). Surgeon. Sent Hudson's Bay and
Maryland plants to Petiver, lib. Sloane 159 ; list in his handwriting
in lib. Sloane, 158.
Smeathman, Henry M. (1750-1787). Collected in Sierra Leone,
Madagascar, and W. Indies. Plants in Brit. Mus. and Herb.
DoCandolle. Sitn'dtlnnnnnitt Br.
Smee, Alfied (1818-1877): b. Camberwell, London, 18th Jiuu!,
1818; d. Wallington, Croydon, lltli Jan. 1877 ; bur. Bedding-
ton. M.E.C.S., 1840. F.E.S. F.L.S., 1875. Surgeon to