Thomas Velley

[1][2] He matriculated from St. John's College, Oxford, on 19 March 1766, and graduated B.C.L.

He resided for many years at Bath, and devoted himself to botany, and especially to the study of algæ, collecting chiefly along the south coast.

[3] Sir James Edward Smith in 1798 gave the name Velleia, in his honour, to an Australasian genus of flowering plants.

[3] Velley's annotated herbarium, illustrated by dissections and microscopic drawings of grasses and other flowering plants, and especially of algæ, in eight folio volumes, was purchased from his widow by William Roscoe for the Liverpool Botanical Garden.

[5][6] Velley's only independent work was Coloured Figures of Marine Plants found on the Southern Coast of England, illustrated with Descriptions, Bath, 1795, pp.