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 66. Portr., by Dance, at Greenwich Hospital. Two Wedgwood medallions. Cookia Sonn.

, afterwards Widdrington [see ].

(1781-1834): b. London, 1781; d. Barnes, Surrey, 1834. Line-engraver. Drew plates for Loddiges' 'Bot. Cabinet.' Bryan.

(1817?-42): b. 1817?; d. Leeds, Yorkshire 24 Nov., 1842; bur. Quarry Hill Cemetery, Leeds. A.L.S 1837. Curator Bot. Soc. Lond., 1838. Assistant Zool. Dep. Mus. Brit. Assistant-Surgeon in Army, 1842. 'Flora Metropolitana,' 1836. Supplement, 1837. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 534; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 173; Gent. Mag.xix. (1843), 108; R S. C. ii. 41; Proc. Boc. Soc. Lond. 1839; Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. (1838) 163; Johnston Corr. 71; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 141. Cooperia Herbert.

(fl. 1759?-1840?). F.L.S., 181 'Botany of Sussex,' 1834. MS. PL of Notts, N. B. G. vii. 265. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 260; Journ. Bot. 1875, sup., p. 6; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 152.

(fl. 1640). Of Shropshire. Sent Drosera anglica to Parkinson. Theatr. 1053.

(fl. 1556-69): d. London, 1568 or 1569 Printer. Compiled 'Boke of the Properties of Herbes,' 1552 Pult. i. 51; Herbert in Dibdin's Ames, iii. 133; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 174.

(fl. 1597). Nurseryman, Twickenham. Gerard, 'Herbal,' 1269. [Vincent Corbet, a nurseryman of Ewell, was father of Richard Corbet (158: 1635), Bishop of Oxford and Norwich. Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 203.]

(d. 1874): d. 15 Oct., 1874. Of Writtle Essex. A.L.S., 1833. Local Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond. Found Bupleurum falcatum in 1831. E. B. S. 2763. Phyt. ii. 336. Went to Adelaide, S. Australia, 1843.

(1807?-79): b. London, 1807 d. Walthamstow? 1 May, 1879. M.A. Oxon, 1830; F.L.S. 1864. Of Walthamstow. Formed a herb, and purchase some of Ed. Forster's plants. Herb, now in possession Hildebrand Ramsden, Esq.

(1860?-83): b. Ireland, 1862; drowned in Lough Gill, 4 Aug., 1883. B.A. Camb., 188: F.L.S., 1882. Assistant Curator University Herbarium. Lecturer in the Medical and Science Schools, Cambridge. 'Flora of N. E. Ireland,' with S. A. Stewart. Journ. Bot. 1883, 313; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-86, 3; R. S. C. ix. 583.

(1815-41): b. Dalscairth, Dumfriesshire, 1815; d. at sea, 16 June, 1841; bur. Dutch Cemetery, Timor. Surgeon to South Sea whaler. Collected in South Sea Islands (plants and shells). Plants in Edinb. Herb. Loud. Gard. Mag. xviii. 369. Lithospermum Corsonianum Don.

(1789-1870): b. 15 March, 1789, Polperro,