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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Pereira, Jonathan (1804-1853) : b. Shoreditch, 22nd May, 1804; 

 d. London, 20th Jan. 1853 ; bur. Kensal Green. M.D., Erlangen, 

 1840. F.E.S., 1838. F.R.C.P., 1845. F.L.S., 1828. Prof. 

 Mat. Med. Pharrn. Soc. 1843. Translation of ' Pharmacopoeia,' 

 1824. 'Elements of Materia Medica,' 1839-40. Pritz. 243; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 237; R. S. C. iv. 825; Pharmaceut. Journ. 

 1852-53, 409, with portr. engr. by D. Pound from daguerro- 

 type by Mayall. Bust by McDowall at London Hosp. Medal 

 by Wyon at Pharm. Soc. 



Perkins, E. E. (Mrs.) (fl. 1837). "Professor of Botanical Flower 

 Painting." Of Chelsea. ' Elements of Botany,' 1837. Lec- 

 tured on Botany. Jacks. 39. 



Perry, William Groves (1796-1863): b. 1796; d. Warwick, 

 25th March, 1863. Curator, Warwicksh. Mus. 1840. F.B.S. Ed., 

 1840. ' Plant* Varvicenses Select*,' 1820. Pritz. 244 ; Jacks. 

 261 ; Phyt.i.700; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. viii. 14. 



Petiver, James (c. 1658-1718): b. Hillmorton, Warwickshire, 

 circ. 1658 ; d. London, 20th April, 1718. Apothecary to the 

 Charterhouse. F.R.S., 1695. Contributed list of Middlesex pi. 

 to Gibson's ' Camden,' and to Pay's ' Historia,' vols. ii. and hi., 

 and 'Synopsis,' ed. 2, and to Phil. Trans. 1697-1717. ' Opera,' 

 1764. Plants in Hb. Sloane. Sloane MSS. 3330-3338. Pult. 

 ii. 31 ; Pritz. 245 ; Jacks. 591 ; Fl. Midd. 379. Petiveria Plunder. 



Petre, Robert James, 8th Baron (1713-1743): b. 3rd June, 

 1713; d. 2nd July, 1743. F.R.S., 1731. " The Phoenix of this 

 age," Collinson. Had garden with large stoves, under Philip 

 Miller's supervision, at Thorndon, Essex. Introduced Camellia 

 japmica. Rich. Corr. 316, 340, 392 ; Linn. Letters, i. 9 ; MS. 

 on fly-leaf of B.M. copy of Pult. ii. Pctrea L. 



Phelps, Rev. William (c. 1776-1856): b. FlaxBourton, Somerset, 

 circ. 1776; d. Oxcombe, Lincoln?, 17th Aug. 1856. B.A.,Oxf M 

 1797. Vicar of Meare and Bicknoller, Somerset, 1824. Rector 

 of Oxcombe, Lincoln. ' Calendarium Botanicum,' 1810. Pritz. 

 246 ; Jacks. 233. 



Phillips, Henry (fl. 1798-1829). F.L.S. Writer on cultivated 

 plants. Schoolmaster at Bayswater ; then of Brighton. 'Flora 

 Historical 1824, ed. 2, 1829. ' History of Vegetables,' 1822. 

 ' Pomarium Brit.' 1820. Pritz. 246 ; Jacks. 592; Johnson, 304. 



Phillips, John (1800-1874): b. Marden, Wilts, 25th Dec. 1800; 

 d. Oxford, 24th April, 1874 ; bur. York. Geologist. M.A., 

 Oxon, 1853. D.C.L., 1866. LL.D., Camb., 1866; Dublin, 

 1845. F.R.S., 1834. Curator, York Museum, 1824. Prof. 

 Geol., King's College, 1834; Dublin, 1844; Oxford, 1853. 

 'Geology of Yorkshire,' 1829-36. Jacks. 182; 'Nature,' ix. 

 (1874), 510. 

 Phipps, Constantine John, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (1744-1792) : 

 b. 30th May, 1744 ; d. 10th Oct. 1792. Captain, R.N. M.P., 

 Newark. Arctic navigator, 1773, in 'Racecourse' and 'Carcass,' 

 with Israel Lyons. ' Voyage towards North Pole,' 1774. Plants 

 pp. 200-204, described by Solander. Succeeded to title, 1775. 

 Lasegue, 395. Phipsia Trin. 



