my Botanical . . . Friends' 1865. Had a herbarium. Friends' Books, i. 131; Hall, ' Flora of Liverpool,' vii., and appendix; R. S. C. vii. 46.
Armitage—(d. before 1840). Treas. Birmingham Bot. and Hort. Soc. Floral Cabinet, iii. 6, 81. Lathyrus Armitageanus Kn. and Westc.
Armstrong, J. (fl. 1840): Kew collector at Port Essington. Plants at Kew. Fl. Tasmania, cxvii.
Arnold, Joseph (1782-1818): b. Beccles, 28 Dec, 1782; 4 Padang, Sumatra, July or Aug., 1818. M.D. Edin., 1807; E.N.; F.L.S., 1815. Memoir by Dawson Turner, Ipswich, 1849; Linn. Trans, xiii. 201; Dict. Nat. Biog. ii. 110. Col. medallion portr. Kew. Rafflesia Arnoldi R. Br.
Arnott, George Amott Walker (1799-1868): b. Edinburgh, 6 Feb., 1799; d. Glasgow, 17 May, 1868. M.A. Edin., 1818; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1837; F.L.S., 1825. Regius Prof. Bot., Glasgow, 1845. 'Botany' in Encycl. Brit., ed. 7. 'Rhizophoreæ,' Mag. Zool. Bot. (1838), 359. 'Langsdorffia,' id, (1839), 36. 'British Flora' (with W. J. Hooker). Herbarium at Glasgow. Pritz. 9; Jacks. 516; R. S. C. i. 98; vi. 568; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. ix. (1868), 414; Gard. Chron. 1868, 683; Journ. Bot. vi. 223; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1869, 101; Dict. Nat. Biog. ii. 120. Portr. at Kew.
Artis Edmund Tyrrell (fl. 1825). House-steward to Earl Fitzwilliam. 'Antediluvian Phytology,' 1825. Pritz. 9; Jacks. 176, 182.
Arviel, Henry (c. 1280). Resided at Bologna. 'De Botanica, sive Stirpium Varia Historia.' "Varia itinera susceperat," Haller, i. 219. Pult. i. 22; Tanner, Bibl. Brit. Hib.
Ascham, Rev. Anthony (fl. 1550). Physician. Vicar of Burniston, near Bedale, Yorkshire. 'A Little Herbal,' 1550. Pult. i. 50-1; Pritz. 9; Jacks. 25; Baker, 'Fathers of Yorkshire Botany'; Dict. Nat. Biog. ii. 149. Portr. engr. Cooper. Aschamia Salisb. = Hippeastnim (in part.)
Ashby, John (1754?-1828): b. 1754?; d. Bungay, 24 Nov., 1828. Grocer and draper. Of Bungay. Contributor to Smith's 'Flora Britannica,' and to Bot. Guide (547). Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. (1829), 120.
Ashfield, Charles Joseph (fl. 1858-63). Of Preston, Lancashire. N. Lancashire plants in Phyt. v. vi., n.s., and in Bot. Chronicle. Herbarium in Preston. R. S. C. i. 107; vii. 53.
Ashley, W. H. (fl. 1850). M.D. Of London. Botanised in Devonshire before 1851. Halle's 'Letters,' pref.
Ashmole, Elias (1617-92): b. Lichfield, 23 May, 1617; d. Lambeth, 26 May, 1692. Hon. M.D. Oxon., 1669. F.R.S. 1661. Windsor Herald, 1660. Took up study of plants in 1648. 'Life.' Mag. Nat. Hist. n.s. i. 272; Cott. Gard. iv. 269; Ath. Oxon. iii. 354; Dict. Nat. Biog. ii. 172.
Atkins, George (d. in or before 1862). M.D. Of Hull. Had a large general herbarium.
Atkins, Anna, née Children (d. 1871): d. Halstead, Kent,
