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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS.
Neill, Patrick (1776-1851) : b. Ediuburgh, 1776 ; d. Canonmills,
Edinburgh, 3rd Sept. 1851 ; bur. Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
LL.D., Edinb. A.L.S., 1807. F.L.S.,1813. F.R.S.Ed.
First Vice-Pres.Bot. See, Ed., 1836. Printer. Correspondent of
Cuvier. Article, ' Fuci,' in Edinb. Encyclop. Friend of George
Don. Collected Scotch plants. Secretary, Wernerian Society.
Gard. Chrou. 1851, 567, 663; Cott. Gard. vii. 121; Greville,
'Algffi Brit.' iv. ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 191; Banksian Corresp.
xii. (Mar. 12, 1801). Neillia D. Don.
Nelson, David (d. 1789) : d. Timor, 20th July, 1789. Kew
gardener. Assistant on Cook's 3i'd voyage, 1776-1780. On
H.M.S. 'Bounty,' 1787. Australian, Cape, and Timor plants
in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fl. Tasmania, cxiii. ; Gard. Chron. 1881,
ii. 267 ; Brown, Prodr. 481.
New, Rev. Charles (d. 1875).
for many years. Collected
Nelsonia Br.
Methodist Missionary in Africa
on Kilima'Njaro, 1871. Journ.
Bot. 1872, 235 ; 1875, 160 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 141. Plants
at Kew. Helichn/sw» Neivii Oliv. & Hiern.
Newbould, Rev. William Williamson (1819-1886) : b. Sheffield,
20th Jan, 1819 ; d. Kew, 16th April, 1886 ; bur. Fulham Cemetery.
B.A., Cantab., 1842. M.A., Cantab., 1845. F.L.S.,
1863. F.B.S.Ed,, 1841. Grig. Member Ray Soc. Curate at
Bluntisham, Hunts, 1845 ; at Comberton, Cambs., 1848. In
Scotland, 1845 ; in Ireland, 1852, 1858 ; in N. Wales, with
J. Gay and Babington, 1862. Intimate friend of C. C. Babington
and H. C. Watson. MSS. in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus.
E. S. C. viii. 493; Top. Bot. 551; Journ. But., with portr.,
1886, 161 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1885-86, 145. Newhouldia Seem.
Newman, Edward (1801-1876) : b. Hampstead, 13th May, 1801
d. Peckham, Surrey, 12th June, 1876; bur. Nunhead. Printer
and publisher, pteridologist and entomologist. F.L.S., 1833.
Lived at Godalming, 1817-1826. Contributed to Mag. Nat.
Hist, from 1831. In Ireland, 1839. ' History of Brit. Ferns,'
1840; ed. iv. 1865 (illustrated by himself ). Edited 'Phytologist,'
1841-1854. 'Letters of Rusticus,' 1849. Pritz. 232; Jacks.
686; R. S. C. iv. 600; viii. 494; Memoir, with portr., 1876;
Journ. Bot. 1876, 223; Gard. Chrou. 1876, i. 823; Zoologist,
1876, pref., with portr.
Newton, James (1611 ?-1689 ?)
: b. 1611?; d. 1689? M.D.
• Enchiridion ' (fragment), 1689. ' Herbal ' (ed. by his son),
1752 ; ed. 6, 1802 ; begun, 1680. Friend of Ray, Hermann, and
Commelin. " Stirpium Britannicarum explorator indefessus,"
Pluk. Aim. 200. Botanized in Scotland, Kent, Westmoreland,
Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, and Wales. Plants collected in
Great Britain, Ireland, and Holland, Herb. Sloane, 205-207,
236-239. Phil. Trans, xx. 263; Pref. to Herbal; MS. notes in
copy of Parkinson's ' Theatrum ' in Bot. Dcpt., Brit. Mus.;
Pritz. 232; Jacks. 586; Fl. Midd. 389. Portr. prolixed to
Herbal.
Newton, John (fl. 1640). Surgeon. Of Colliton, Somerset.
Brought plants from America to Parkinson (Theatrum, 596).
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