452 Field Columbian Muskum — Hoiany, Vol. I. 



Coll. : Hot. Museum, Copenhaj^en (bearing for the most part the 

 herbarium labels of Alfred Benzon). 



Lit.: Warm, in Bot. Tidsskr. Kopenh. Xll (1880), p. 121; 

 Kia-rsk. 1. c. XXI II (igoo), p. 35; Cat. Sc. Pap. 1, p. 285. 



1819-39. Ravn, Peter, (?-i83g), born in Drobak (Norway), passed 

 his surgical examinations in 1816, went to St. Thomas in 1819, 

 where he became garrison surgeon in 1830 and regimental sur- 

 geon in 1834; died there April 26, 1839. He collected on St. 

 Thomas, St. Croix, St. John and Vieques (Crab Island). 

 Coll. : Bot. Museum, Copenhagen; some specimens also in Herb. 



de Caudolle, Geneva. 



Lit.: Krebs. Bidr. St. Thorn., p. 291; Kia^rsk. in Bot. Tidsskr. 



Kopenh. XXIII (1900), p. 43. 



1825. Parker, Charles Sandbach, (?-i868 or 1869), born in Glas- 

 gow (Scotland), studied botany under P. de CandoUe, traveled 

 over British and Dutch Guayana in 1824, went from thence with 

 his own schooner to the West Indies (Trinidad, Barbados, St. 

 Vincent, Guadeloupe, St. Croix and Porto Rico), and was ship- 

 wrecked between Guadeloupe and Antigua, thereby losing a large 

 part of his collection. He assisted Roscoe with his Scitamineae, 

 and died in 1868 or 1869. 



Coll. : Kew Herbarium; duplicates in Cambridge. 

 Lit.: Regensb. Flora vol. VIII, II (1825), p. 493; DC. Prodr. 



XII, p. no: Las. Mus. Deless., p. 492: Britt. and Boulg., p. 131; 



Cat. Sc. Pap. IV, p. 758; Urb. Symb. I, p. 108. 



1825-44. HoRNBECK, Hans Baltzar, (1800-70), son of Cashier C, R. 

 Hornbeck, born in Copenhagen, January 9, 1800, studied medi- 

 cine in his birthplace and in 1825 went to St. John to practice 

 his profession. Here, soon after his arrival, he became district 

 surgeon, and in 1827 territorial physician to the Danish West 

 Indies, He collected plants and other natural history specimens 

 chiefly on St. John, but also on St. Croix, St. Thomas and Porto 

 Rico. He returned to Copenhagen in 1844 and died there Feb- 

 ruary 2, 1H70, while physician to the Copenhagen Hospital 

 (Kopenhavns Sygehjem). 

 Coll. : Bot. Museum, Copenhagen. 

 Lit.: Kia^rsk. in Bot. Tidsskr. Kopenh. XXIII (1900), p. 40; 



Cat. Sc. Pap. HI, p. 434. 



1841. Breutel, Johann Christian (1788-1875), born at Weissen- 

 burg. Middle Franconia, Bavaria (Germany), January 21, 1788, 

 received his education at Ebersdorf (Rcuss), joined the Moravian 

 brethren and learned the trade of glovemaking. As steward of 

 the Moravian church he served at Gnadenfrei (Silesia) 1814-19; 

 at Neuwied (Rhenish Province), 1819-24; at Niesky (Liegnitz), 

 1824-32, and as a member of the board of directors he served at 

 Berthelsdorf, near Herrnhut (Saxony), 1832-57. While in the 



