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Parker, Charles Sandbach (d. 1868 or 1869) : b. Glasgow ; 

 a. 1868 or 1869. Of Aigburth, Liverpool. Studied under 

 DeCandolle at Geneva. Collected in Dutch Guiana and West 

 Indies, 1824. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 147; E. S. C. iv. 758; 

 Lasegue, 492. Herbarium at Kew. Parker ia Hook. 



Parker, John Cowham (c. 1774-1841): b. circ. 1774; d. Hull?, 

 1841. Wine-merchant, of Hull. One of founders of Hull Bot. 

 Garden. "An enthusiastic botanist," E. W. Corlass, ' Sketches 

 of Hull Authors,' 1879, 108. 



Parkinson, James (fl. 1780-1833). F.G.S. Surgeon. Practised 

 atHoxton. ' Organic Eemains,' 1804-1811. Pritz. 240; Jacks. 

 589 ; E. S. C. iv. 760 ; Mantell, ' Pictorial Atlas of Fossil 

 Eemains,' 1850, p. 13. 



Parkinson, John (1567-1650) : b. Nottinghamshire (?), 1567 ; d. 

 London, Aug. 1650; bur. St.Martin's-in-the-Fields. Apothecary. 

 King's Herbarist ('Botanicus Eegius Primarius'). 'Paradisus 

 Terrestris,' 1629. ' Theatrum Botanicum,' 1640. Had a garden 

 in Long Acre, 'Theatrum,' 609. Pult. i. 138; Eees; Pritz. 

 240; Jacks. 589; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 49, 53. Journ. Hort. 

 xxviii. 1875, 493, with portr. Portr. by C. Switzer in ' Para- 

 disus' ; and one by W. Marshall in ' Theatrum,' re-engraved in 

 Eichardson's Illustr. to Granger. Parkinsonia L. 



Parkinson, John (d. 1847) ; d. Paris, 3rd April, 1847. F.E.S. 

 F.L.S., 1795. Consul-General in Mexico. Sent dried and 

 living plants to Kew. Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. iv. 128 ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. i. 336. 



Parkinson, Sydney (d. 1771) : b. Edinburgh ; d. Indian Ocean, 

 Jan. 1771. Woollen-draper. Protege of Banks, with whom to 

 South Seas in 'Endeavour' as draughtsman, 1768. Drawings 

 in Dept. Bot., Brit. Mas. ' Journal of Voyage,' 1784 (efr. 

 "Preface" and " Explanatory Eemarks " : list of plants, 37-50). 

 Portrait prefixed to ' Journal,' engr. Jas. Newton. Pritz. 240 ; 

 Jacks. 223. 



Parks, John Damper (fl. 1823). Collector for Hort. Soc. in 

 China and Java, 1823. Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 427. 



Parnell, Richard (d. 1882) ; b. Devonshire ; d. Edinburgh, 1882. 

 Ichthyologist. M.D. F.E.S.E. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc.Edinb., 

 1836. Lived in Jamaica, 1839. 'Grasses of Scotland,' 1842; 

 • Grasses of Britain,' 1845 ; both with figs, drawn and engraved 

 by himself. Pritz. 241 ; Jacks. 589 ; Journ. Bot. 1883, 30 ; 

 E. S. C. iv. 763. Herbarium of grasses at Linn. Soc. Poa 

 Parnellii Bab. 



Parry, Charles Christopher (1823-1890) : b. Admington, Wor- 

 cestershire, 28th Aug. 1823 ; d. Davenport, Iowa, 20th Feb. 1890. 

 Went to America, 1832. M.D. Botanical explorer and collector. 

 On Mexican Boundary Survey, 1850 ; in Eocky Mountains, 1861. 

 Botanist to Agric. Dept. Washington, 1869-71. ' Chorizanthe,' 

 1884, 1889, and various bot. papers. Friend of Torrey and 

 Gray. Herb, at Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences. Jacks. 689 ; 

 E.S.C. iv. 767; viii. 565; 'Garden and Forest,' iii. 120; Bull. 

 Torrey Bot. Club, March, 1890. Pinus Parryana Engelm. 



