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 1835. Surgeon K.N. F.L.S., 1825. On board H.M.S. Blossom 1825-28. Collected in California, with Lay, in 1827; also in Chili and Australia, 1832. Plants in Herb. Kew. Pritz. 66; ' Botany of Beechey's Voyage '; Botany of Geol. Surv. Californ. ii. 554.

—(fl. 1820?). M.D. MS. List of Barbados plants. May cock, Fl. Barbadensis, vii.

(fl. 1816-48). B.A. Camb., 1826; M.A., 1848. List of Somerset plants in N. B. G., 553.

(1729?-95): b. Peckham?, 1729?; d. 11 Aug., 1795; bur. at Sproughton, Suffolk. Of Hendon, Middlesex, and Chantry, Suffolk. Only son of the following. Nich. Anec. v. 315.

(1694-1768): b. St. Clement's Lane, Lombard Street?, 14 Jan., 1694; d. London, 11 Aug., 1768 (not at Thorndon). F.R.S., 1728; P.S.A., 1737. Woollen-draper. Had garden at Peckham till 1749, and then at Mill Hill (afterwards Salisbury's). Friend of Derham, Woodward, Dale, Sloane, Linnaeus, Bartram, Franklin, &c. Contributed to Gent. Mag. 1751-66. MS. account of introduction of American seeds in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. Pult. ii. 275; Rees; Pritz. 66; Account by Dr. Fothergill, 1770, with portr., engr. T. Trotter; Nich. Anec. v. 309; ix. 609, with portr.; 'Hortus Collinsonianus,' by L. W. Dillwyn, 1843; Friends' Books, i. 443; Linn. Corr. i. 1-77; Linn. Trans, x. 270; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 54, 81; Cott. Gard. viii. 143; Gent. Mag. 1768, 398; Dict. Nat. Biog. xi. 382. Portr. at Kew. Collinsonia L.

(fl. 1822). Baronet. Collected in Kumaon. PI. in Hort. Bot. Calcutta. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 608. Colquhounia Wall.

(fl. 1830). Of Arbroath. 'Functions of Spiral Vessels.' Edinb. Journ. iii. (1830) 5; R. S. C. ii. 26.

(1632-1713): b. Compton Wyniates, Warwick, 1632; d. Fulham, 7 July, 1713; bur. Fulham. Cornet in Guards. M.A. Camb., 1661; and Oxon, 1666; D.D., 1669; ordained, 1662. Bishop of Oxford, 1674; of London, 1675. Friend of Eay, &c. Introduced many exotics, Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 50. Pult. ii. 105, 302; Pritz. 67; 'Life,' 1713; F. L. Colvile, 'Worthies of Warwickshire '; Phil. Trans, xlvii. 241; Cott. Gard. iv. 183; vii. 171; Wood, Athen. Ox. iv. 514; Fasti, ii. 293; Dict. Nat. Biog. xi. 443. Portr. mezz. by Is. Beckett, after J. Riley; by J. Simon, after Hargrave, 1710; and engr. by D. Loggan, 1679 Comptonia Brongn. = Comptonites Nilss.? Comptonia Banks MS., Gärtn.

(fl. 1836). List of Monmouth plants in N. B. G. 629. R. S. C. ii. 38; Top. Bot. 542.

(1728-79): b. Marton, Yorkshire, 27 Oct., 1728; murdered Hawaii, 14 Feb., 1779. Circumnavigator. First voyage, with Banks and Solander, 1768-71; second, with J. R. and G. Forster, 1772-75; third, 1776-79. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 534; Comp, Bot, Mag. ii. 233; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii.