Dale, Samuel (1659-1739): b. Whitechapel? 1659; d. Becking, Essex, 6 June, 1739; bur. Dissenters' burial-ground, Bocking. Apothecary and Physician. Practised at Braintree. Friend and executor of Ray, correspondent of Sloane (Sloane MSS., 4042). 'Pharmacologia,' 1693; Supplement, 1705; 'History ot Harwich,' 1730; Contributed to Phil. Trans. 1692-1736. Herbarium bequeathed to Apothecaries' Company, now in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pult. ii. 122; Rees; Pritz. 75; Jacks. 199, 200; Semple, 63; Gibson, Fl. of Essex, 446; Journ. Bot. 1883, 193, 225; Gent. Mag. 1739, 327; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 385. Oil portr. at Apothecaries' Hall, engrav. by G. Vertue in 'Pharmacologia,' ed. 3, 1737, autotyped in Journ. Bot. 1883; copy at Kew. Dalea Brown = Eupatorium Dalea L. Dalea L.
Dalton Rev. James (1765 ?-1843): b. 1765?; d. Croft, Yorkshire, 2 Jan., 1843. M.A. Camb., 1790; Rector of Croft, 1805; F.L.S., 1801. Contributed to E. Bot. Studied Carices and Mosses. Discovered Scheuchzeria, Pritz. 75; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 172; Ann. Bot. ii. 197; B.G., 663. Daltonia Hook. & Tayl.
Dalton, John (1766-1844): b. Eaglesfield, nr. Cockermouth, 6 Sept., 1766; d. Manchester, 28 July, 1844; bur. Ardwick Cemetery, Manchester. LL.D., Edin., 1834; D.C.L. Oxon, 1832; F.R.S., 1822. Chemist. Pupil of John Gough. Herbarium at Manchester Public Library. Memoirs by R. Angus Smith, w. portr. engr. after Allen; 'Worthies of Cumberland,' by H. Lonsdale, 1874; Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc. 1856 ; and, w. portr., by Dr. W. C. Henry, 1854; 'Annual Monitor,' 1845; 'Friends' Books, i. 506; R.S.C., ii. 122 ; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 429; Portr. by Allen, 1814, at Manchester Phil. Soc. Marble statue by Chantrey at Manchester Roy. Instit., and bronze copy at Royal Infirmary.
Dalzell, Nicol Alexander (1817-78): b. Edinburgh, 21 April, 1817; d. Edinburgh, Jan., 1878. M.A. Edin., 1837; F.R.S. Ed., 1836. In India, 1841-1870. Conservator of Forests, Bombay. 'Bombay Flora ' (w. A. Gibson), 1861. Contributed to Linn. Trans.; Journ. Bot. 1850-1857; Proc. Bot. Soc. Ed., &c. Plants at Kew. Pritz. 75; Jacks. 387, 390, 392; R.S.C. ii. 135; vii. 479; Athenæsum, 1878, 162; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 448. Dalzellia Hook. = Cyanotis.
Dampier, William (1652-1715) : b. East Coker, Yeovil, 1652; d. London, Mar., 1715. Circumnavigator. Collected in Brazil, Australia, Timor, New Guinea, &c. 'New Voyage round the World' (1697). Plants in Brit. Mus. (Herb. Sloane, 93, 94) and at Oxford. Pritz. 75; Rees; Ray's Hist. Plant, iii. (Suppl.) 225 ; Lasègue, 360; 'Life,' Edinburgh Cabinet Library, vol. v., 1830; 'Early English Voyagers,' 1886; Biography by W. C. Russell, 1889; Journ. Bot. 1873, 348 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiv. 2. Portr. by T. Murray in Nat. Portr. Gallery. Dampiera Br.
Dancer, Thomas (1755 ?-1811): b. 1755?; d. Kingston, Jamaica, 1 Aug., 1811. M.I). Swctceeded Dr. Clark as
