Barton, John (fl. 1812-30). Of Chichester. Brother of Bernard Barton. 'Lecture on the Geography of Plants,' 1827. Pritz. 15; Jacks. 221; R. S. C. i. 200.
Barton, Rev. William (1754?-1829): b. Preston, Lane, 1754?; d. Lytham, Lane, 21 March, 1829. M.D. Edin.; B.A. Camb., 1795. Incumbent of Samlesbury, Lango, and Great Harwood. "An accurate naturalist, botanist, poet." Whittle, Hist. Preston, ii. 272.
Bartram, John (1699-1777):8b. Marple, Co. Delaware, Penn., 23 March, 1699; d. 1777. " King's botanist in America," 1765. "The greatest natural botanist in the world," Linnaeus. Correspondent of Sloane, Hill, Ellis, and Collinson, Phil. Trans. 1740-1763. Pritz. 15; Medical & Phys. Journ. i. (1804), 115; Memorials, by W. Darlington, 1849. Friends' Books, i. 201. Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 85. Bartramia Hedw.
Baskerville, Thomas (1812-1840): b. 26 April, 1812; d. London, 1840 (?). M.R.C.S., 1835. Practised at Canterbury. 'Affinities of Plants,' 1839. Pritz. 16; Jacks. 17; Dict. Nat. Biog. iii. 369. Baskervilla Lindl.
Bateman, Rev. John (fl. 1665?-1700): b. Sittingbourne, Kent, 1665?. B.A. Oxon, 1687; M.A., 1690. MS. List of Faversham plants, Hb. Sloane, 317. Pult. ii. 272; Jacob, 'Plantæ Favershamienses.'
Bauchop, J. C. (fl. 1840). Of Edinburgh. Wrote botany of Borrowstounness, Linlithgow, for Stat. Ace. Scotl. Bauer, Ferdinand (1760-1826): b. Feldsberg, Austria, 20 Jan., 1760; d. Hietzing, Vienna, 17 March, 1826. Accompanied Sibthorp to Greece, 1784. Flinders' Expedition, 1801-5. 'Ilustrationes Floræ Novas Hollandiæ,' 1813. Lambert's 'Pinus,' 1810-87. Lindley's 'Digitalis.' Pritz. 17; Jacks. 398; Nich. Illust. vi. 838; Ann. & Mag. iv. (1840), 67; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 1839, 39; Journ. Bot. 1843, 106.
Bauer, Francis (1758-1840): b. Feldsberg, Austria, 4 Oct., 1758; d. Kew, 11 Dec, 1840; bur. Kew. Brother of preceding. F.L.S., 1804; F.E.S., 1820. Came to England, 1788. Employed as artist by Banks. 'Delineations of Exotic Plants' . . ., 1796. 'Strelitzia depicta,' 1818. 'Ergot,' Linn. Trans. 1840. Drawings of both Bauers in Dept. Bot. Brit. Mus. Pritz. 17; Jacks. 519; Gard. Chron. 1841, 22; Bot. Eeg. 1841, p. 85. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 1841, 101; Proc. Boy. Soc. iv. (1843), 342; Ann. & Mag. v. 1840, 47; vii. 1841, 77, 439. Portr. at Kew. Bauera Banks ex Andr. Bot. Rep. (after the brothers).
Baxter William (1787-1871): b. Eugby, Warwick, 15 Jan., 1787; d. Oxford, 1 Nov., 187L A.L.S., 1817. Curator, Oxford Bot. Garden, 1813-51. 'British Phæsnogamous Botany,' 1834-43. 'Stirpes Cryptogamicae Oxonienses,' 1825. Plants in Oxford Herbarium. Pritz. 18; Jacks. 235; Journ. Bot. 1871, 380; Gard. Chron. 1871, 1426; Loud. Gard. Mag. X. (1834), 110; Druce, ' Flora of Oxfordshire,' 392; Fl. Warwicksh. 498; Dict. Nat. Biog. iii. 438. Engr. at Kew, by J. Whessell, from drawing by A. Burt.
