118 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Parry, Sir William Edward (1790-1855) : b. Bath, 19th Dec. 

 1790 ; d. Ems, 8th July, 1855 ; bur. Greenwich Cemetery. 

 Arctic explorer. Rear-Admiral, 1852. F.R.S., 1821. D.C.L.. 

 Oxon, 1829. Knight, 1829. Plants at Kew and Mus. Brit. 

 'Memoirs' by Rev. Edw. Parry, 1857, with portr. by G. Rich- 

 mond, 1842, engr. Lane. Parrya Br. 



Parsons, James (1705-1770) : b. Barnstaple, Devon, March, 

 1705 ; d. Bloomsbury, 4th April, 1770 ; bur. Hendon. M.D., 

 Rheims, 1736. F.R.S., 1741. Practised in London. 'Micro- 

 scopical Theatre of Seeds,' 1744. ' Analogy between Propagation 

 of Animals and Vegetables,' 1752. ' Pharmacopoeia Edinburg- 

 ensis,' 1752. Rees; Pritz. 241; Jacks. 589; Munk, ii. 175. 

 Portr. by Wilson in Mus. Brit. Parsonsia P. Browne = Cuphea 

 Jacq. Parsonsia Br. 



Partington, Charles Frederick (fl. 1820-1838). Editor, 'British 

 Cyclopsedia.' ' Introduction to Science of Botany,' 1835. 

 Jacks. 39. 



Pasmore, Rev. Henry (d. before 1699) : d. Jamaica, before 1699. 

 Sent plants to Petiver. Mus. Pet. 46. 



Paterson, John Ligertwood (1820-1882) : b. Midmar, Aber- 

 deensh., 1820; d. Brazil, 9th Dec. 1882. M.D. F.B.S.Ed., 

 1872. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xvi. 9. 



Paterson, William (d. 1810) : b. Montrose?; d. on voyage from 

 Australia, 21st June, 1810. Colonel. F.R.S. F.L.S., 1797. 

 In S. Africa, 1777-79. ' Narrative of Journeys,' 1789. Lieut. - 

 Governor, Botany Bay, 1800-1810. Collected in S. Africa and 

 Australia. Brown, Prodr. 303 ; Fl. Tasmania, cxxiv. ; Lasegue, 

 278, 446 ; Cott. Gard. viii. 329, &c. ; ix. 3. Plants in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. Patersonia Br. 



Patrick, Rev. William (fi. 1831). ' Indigenous Plants of Lanark- 

 shire, with an introduction to Botany,' 1831. Pritz. 241 ; 

 Jacks. 255. 



Patton, George (1803-1869): b. 1803; d. Glenalmond, Perth, 

 30th Sept. 1869. Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, 1867, as 

 Lord Glenalmond. Cbairman, Oregon Bot. Assoc. Introduced 

 Cupre&sus Laivsoniatia and Abies Pattoniana. Gard. Chron. 1869, 

 1043. 



Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803-1865) ; b. Milton Bryant, Beds., 3rd 

 Aug. 1803; d. Sydenham, 8th June, 1865. F.L.S., 1833. 

 Foreman, Chiswick Arboretum, 1824. Superintendent, Chats- 

 wortb, 1826. ' Magazine of Bot.,' 1834. Travelled through 

 S. Europe and Levant, 1838. ' Pocket Bot. Dictionary,' 1840. 

 Knighted, 1851. M.P. for Coventry, 1854, Pritz. 242; Jacks. 

 590 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1865-6, lxxxi. ; Gard. Chron. 1865, 554 ; 

 Journ. Hort. viii. (1865), 446, with portr. ; and ix. 12. Journ. 

 Bot. 1865, 231. Paxtonia Lindl. 



Peach, Charles William (1800-1886) : b. Wansford, Northants, 

 30th Sept. 1800 ; d. Edinburgh, 28th Feb. 1886. Coastguards- 

 man and geologist. A.L.S., 1868. Neill Medal, R.S.E., 1875. 

 Papers on fossil plants in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xii. & xiii., &c. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-86, 146 ; R. S. C. iv. 791 ; Smiles, 

 •Robert Dick'; Scott. Nat. 1886, 289. 



