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56 BIOGRAMICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOtANlS*^.
Newton, Rev. Thomas (d. 1607) : b. Presbury, Cheshire ; d.
Little Ilford, Essex, May, 1607 ; bur. in Ilford Church. Surgeon,
afterwards schoolmaster and clergyman. Rector of
Little Ilford, 1583. Translated ' Herball to the Bible, 1587,
fi'om Lemnius. Pult. i. 108; Wood, Athen. Oxon., ed. Bliss,
ii. 5 ; Cooper, Athen. Cantab.
Nichol, William (1836-1859) : b. Edinburgh, March, 1836 ; d.
Alexandria, 7th May, 1859. M.D., 1857. F.B.S.Ed. Muscologist:
" added many mosses to the flora of Scotland." Trans.
Bot. Soc. Edinb. vi. 290.
NichoUs, Robert (fl. 1745). Apothecary. Of London. Correspondent
of Blackstone. Herbarium presented to Apothecaries'
Company, 1745 ; plants now in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fl. Midd.
891 ; Sloane MS. 4054.
Nicholson, Henry (fl. 1712). M.D., Leyden, 1709. ' Methodus
plantarum in hort. Dublin,' 1712. Pritz. 232; Jacks. 251.
NicoU, William (fl. 1827-1834). Of Edinburgh. Invented
section-cutting of fossil wood in 1827. ' Observations on recent
and fossil Comferse,' Jameson's Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1834.
Fossils in Brit. Mus. A. Geikie, ' Text-book of Geology,' ed. i.
94. Nicolia Ung.
Nid, John (d. c. 1659). Senior Fellow, Trin. Coll. Camb. ' Intimate
friend of Ray, who preached his funeral sermon. Memorials
of Ray, 11 ; Ray, Cat. pi. circ. Cantab, (pref.).
Nimmo, Joseph (fl. 1837-1846). Of Bombay. Investigated Flora
of Bombay, and sent plants to Wight. Completed Graham's
Cat. Bombay Plants (see preface).
Nimmoia Wight = Aimnania, part.
Journ. Bot. 1841, 300.
Niven, James (1774 ?-1826) : b. Pennicuik, Edinburgh, 1774 ? ;
d. same place, 9th Jan. 1826. Grandfather of the following.
Gardener in Edinb. Bot. Gard., at Syon, 1796, to Hibbert, 1798.
Collected in S. Africa for Hibbert, 1798-1803, and again for
Lee and others, 1803-1812. Gard. Mag. ii. 255; Bot. Rep.
t. 193 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 46, 134 ; Lasegue, 447 ; Trans.
Hort. Soc. i. 262. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. Nivenia Br. =
Paranomus Salisb.
Niven, James Craig (1828-1881): b. Dublin, 1828; d. Hull,
16th Oct. 1881. Bon of the following. Asst. Curator at Kew,
1852. Curator, Hull Bot. Gard,, 1853, Lectured on Bot.
at Hull. ' Cat. Herbaceous Plants at Kew,' 1853. Edited
Maund's 'Bot. Garden,' 1878. Jacks, 412; Journ, Bot, 1881,
352; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. p. 541, with portr, on p. 589;
Life and portr., ' Garden,' xx. (1881).
Niven, Ninian (1799-1879) : b. 1799 ; d. Dublin, 18th Feb. 1879.
F.B.S.Ed., 1836. Curator, Glasnevin Bot. Gard., Dublin,
1834-1838. ' Companion to the Bot. Gard., Glasnevin,' 1838.
Pritz. 233 ; Jacks. 411 ; Gard. Chron. (1879), xi. 277 ; R. S. C.
iv. 627.
Nodder, Frederick Polydore (fl. 1777-1794). Botanic painter
to Queen Caroline. Drew and engraved the plates of Martyn's
' Flora Rustica.' Drawings in Bot. Dept,, Brit. Mus.
(To be continued.)