This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Referenoe. Thomson, Joseph (1860-95): b. Penpont, near Thornhill, Dumfries, Feb. 1860; d. London, 2 Aug. 1895. African traveller. Collected in Eastern Equatorial Africa, 1882-3, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 397. R.S.C. xi. 591; Geogr. Journ., Sept. 1895; Athenaeum, 1895, ii. 195. Impatiens Thomsoni Hk. f. Tinker, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Referenoe. Thomson, Joseph (1860-95): b. Penpont, near Thornhill, Dumfries, Feb. 1860; d. London, 2 Aug. 1895. African traveller. Collected in Eastern Equatorial Africa, 1882-3, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 397. R.S.C. xi. 591; Geogr. Journ., Sept. 1895; Athenaeum, 1895, ii. 195. Impatiens Thomsoni Hk. f. Tinker, Jethro (1788-1871): b. 25 Sept. 1788; d. Staleybridge, 10 March, 1871. Working-man. Botanist and entomologist. Contrib. to Buxton, Bot. Guide (p. ix). Herb, in Stamford Park Museum. Monument in Stamford Park, between Ashton and Staleybridge, inscribed "Our Local Linn us." Traill, George William (1836-97): b. Kirkwall, Orkney, 26 Oct. 1836; d. Joppa, near Edinburgh, 7 April, 1897. Algologist. 'Alg of the Forth, ' 1885. 'Algae of Joppa, ' 1886. 'Algae of Orkney, ' 1890. Herbarium in Herb. Bot. Soc. Edin. Jacks. 246; R.S.C. xi. 631; Orkney Herald, 14 April, 1897; Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1898, 7; Journ. Bot. 1896, 10; 1897, 440, with bibliogr. Trailliella Batters. Trimen, Henry (1843-96): b. Paddington, 26 Oct. 1843; d. Peradeniya, Ceylon, 16 Oct. 1896; bur. Kandy. M.B., Lond., 1865. F.L.S., 1866. F.R.S., 1888. Assistant Bot. Dep. Mus. Brit., 1869-79. Bot. Lecturer, St. Mary's Hospital 1877. Director Bot. Gard. Peradeniya, 1879. Discovered Wolfia arrhiza, 1866. 'Flora of Middlesex' (with W. T. T. Dyer), 1869. Edited 'Journ. Bot., 1871-79. 'Medicinal Plants' (with Robert Bentley), 1875-80. 'Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, ' 1893-95. R.S.C. vi. 40; viii. 1115; xi. 644; Pritz. 323; Jacks. 614. Journ. Bot. 1896, 489, with portr.; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1896-7, 70; Kew Bull. 1896, 219. Trimmer, Sarah, nee Kirby (1741-1810): b. Ipswich, 1741; d. 15 Dec. 1810; bur. Ealing. 'Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature, ' ed. vi. 1789; ed. xi....
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