William W. Newbould, various botanical notes, mid-19C

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William Williamson Newbould (1819-1886), botanist
[1] Catalogue of English plants together with the names of their first discoverers in England by Dr. Pulteney.
Transcribed from the original manuscript preserved in the British Museum by Newbould (1860).
[2] Rubi nonnulli Styriae finitimaeque Carinthiae auctore Dr. L. Ch. De Vest.
[3] Conspectus dispositionis Salicum Sueciae elaboratae ab Elia Fries.
[4] Notes of Relham's herbarium at the Linnaean Society May 1863.
[5] Drawings of Iceland plants for Sir J. Bamks in Brit. Mus. 1772.
[6] Notes (apparently written by Mr. W. Vernon a few also by Peliver) extracted from the margin of Ray's Synopsis Methodicus ed. 2 1696 now in Lib. Of British Museum 1861.
[7] List of phanerganic [? possibly meant to be phanerogamic?] plants and ferns &c extracted from Islengh Grasufraedi af O.J. Hjaltalin … 1830 (1863). [Íslenzk grasafraeđi, by Óddur Jónsson Hjaltalín, Kaupmannahöfn 1930]
[8] List of pharerogamic plants & ferns &c extracted from Geographische Beschreiburg von Island von Theodor Gliemann … 1824 (1863).

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Permanent transfer from Plant Sciences Library, JUN 2004

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