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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF

1809 (q.v.); m. 2. Augustus Wall Callcott (afterwards knighted), 1827. 'Journal of a Residence in India,' 1812. 'Journal of a Voyage to Brazil,' 1824. 'Scripture Herbal,' 1842, &c. Collected in Brazil. Jacks. 20; Journ. Bot. 1842, 26; Gent. Mag. 1843, i. 98; Dodd, Annual Biography, 1842, 285. Dict. Nat. Biog. viii. 258. Græmia Hook. = Cephalophora Grahamia Gill.

Caldcleugh, Alexander (fl. 1823). P.L.S., 1823; F.R.S. Collected in Chili. Friend of D. Don. Caldeluvia D. Don.

Caldwell, Andrew (1733-1808): b. Dublin?, 19 Dec, 1733; d. near Bray, Wicklow, 2 July, 1808. Irish bar, 1760. F.L.S., 1796. Correspondent of Smith. Smith, Lett. ii.; Nich. Illustr. viii. 24; Gent. Mag. lxxviii. 746; Dict. Nat. Biog. viii. 247.

Caley, George (d. 1829): b. Yorkshire; d. Bayswater, 23 May, 1829; bur. St. George's burial-ground, Hyde Park. Began life as stable-boy. Assisted by Banks. In New South Wales, 1799-1810. Superintendent, St. Vincent Gardens, 1816-22. "Botanicus peritus et accuratus," R. Brown., Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. (1811); Gard. Chron. xxiv., 1885, 263; Mag. Nat. Hist. 1829, 310; 1830, 226. Woolls, Bot. Discov. in Austr., *7; Cash, 21. Caleana R. Br.

Calvert, Caroline Louisa Waring, née Atkinson (1834-72): b. Oldbury, Argyle co., N. S. Wales, 25 Feb., 1834; d. Sutton Forest, N.S.W., 28 April, 1872. m. 1870, James Snowden Calvert, fellow-traveller of Leichhardt, 1844-45. Sent plants to F. von Mueller. Mueller, Fragmenta, v. 34 viii. 53. G. B. Barton, Literature of N.S.W., 1866, 111. Boaśe. Atkinsonia F. v. M., Epacris Calvertiana F. v. M.

Calvert, Michael (1770?-1862): b. Knaresboro', 1770?; d. Knaresboro', 3 Dec, 1862. Chemist, botanist, and topographer. 'Hist, of Knaresboro', 1844. Grainger's Hist. Harrogate (1871), 261. Boyne's Yorksh. Library (1869), 142 'Leeds Mercury,' 1 June, 1889. Boase; Dict. Nat. Biog. viii. 274.

Cameron, David (1787?-1848): b. circ. 1787; d. Shrawley Worc., 25 June, 1848. A.L.S., 1827. Gardener to H. Barclay (q.v.) until 1831; then Curator Birmingham Bot. Garden till 1847. Contrib. to Phyt. i., Gard. Mag., &c. and to Knowles and Westcott's Floral Cabinet. Proc. Linn Soc. ii. 50. Hibiscus Cameroni Kn. and Westc.

Campbell, Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyle (1682-1761): b. Ham House, Richmond, June, 1682; d. London, 15 April 1761. Planted Whitton. Most of his trees went to Kev. Loud. 'Arboretum,' 57-8; Dict. Nat. Biog. viii. 341. Argyle D. Don.

Campbell, William Hunter. (1814-83): b. Edinburgh 1814; d. London, 1883. Fellow collegian of Sir J. H. Hooker. LL.D. Edinburgh. First Sec. Bot. Soc. Edin Collected Scottish plants. Author (with J. H. Balfour and C. C. Babington) of Edin. Cat. Brit. Pl. 1841. Attorney in Georgetown Demerara. 'Vegetation of Georgetown,' Ann.