156 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



19; Memoirs, partly autob., 1806-7; Life by Corry, 1805; 

 Misc. Works, 1817-1834, with bibliog. ; Chalmers; Hoefer ; 

 Michaud (by Cuvier) ; Alliboue ; Gent. Mag. 1804, i. 375. 

 Portr. in ' Profiles of Warrington Worthies.' Priestleya DC. 



Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801): b. Loughborough, Leicester, 

 17th Feb. 1730; d. Blandford, Dorset, 13th Oct. 1801; bur. 

 Langton, near Blandford. M.D., Edinb., 1764. L.R.C.P. 

 1765. F.L.S., 1790. F.R.S., 1762. F.R.S.E., 1793. Prac- 

 tised as surgeon and apothecary at Leicester, and from 1765 at 

 Blandford. Contributed list of plants to Nichols' ' Hist. Leices- 

 tershire' ; and to Hutchins' ' Hist. Dorset.' ' View of Writings 

 of Linnaeus,' 1781. ' Biographical Sketches,' 1790. Collections 

 bequeathed to Linn. Soc. MS. ' Flora Anglica' in Bot. Dept., 

 Mus. Brit. Rees ; Pritz. 254 ; Jacks. 594 ; Memoir by Maton 

 in ' Writings of Linnaeus,' ed. 2, with portr. ; Memoir by John 

 Aikin in 'Phil. Mag.; Gent. Mag. lxxi. (1801), 1058, 1207; 

 Munk, ii. 264; Cott. Gard. viii. 315; Gorham, 102; Nich. 

 Anec. viii. 196, and Hist. Leicester, iii. 848, both with portr. 

 engr. Basire, after oil by T. Beach (1788) at Linn. Soc. Also 

 engr. by T. Roberts. Portr. Kew. Pulterma Sm. 



Purdie, William (d. 1857) : d. Trinidad, 10th Oct. 1857. Kew 

 Collector in Trop. America and W. Indies. Journal in Journ. 

 Bot. 1844-5. Curator, Bot. Gard. Trinidad, 1846. Journ. Bot. 

 1847, 40; Gard. Chron. 1857, 792; R. S. C v. 43. Plants at 

 Kew. Purdiaa Planch. 



Purton, Thomas (1768-1833) : b. Endon Burnell, Chetton, Salop, 

 10th May, 1768 ; d. Alcester, Warwick, 1833. Surgeon. 

 Practised in London, 1791-1795, and then at Alcester. Fungolo- 

 gist. Friend of Smith, W. J. Hooker, Greville, and Sowerby. 

 'Midland Flora,' 1817-1821. Pritz. 255 ; Jacks. 246 ; R. S. C. 

 v. 46; Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. (1836), 606; Lees' ' Botany of Wor- 

 cester,' lxxxix. 



Quekett, Edwin John (1808-1847): b. Langport, Somerset, 

 Sept. 1808 ; d. 28th June, 1847. Microscopist and Surgeon. 

 F.L.S., 1836. Lect. Bot. London Hosp., 1835. Orig. Memb. 

 R. Microscopic Soc. R. S. C. v. 53 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 378 ; 

 Phyt. iii. 110. Quekettia Lindl. 



Quekett, John Thomas (1815-1861); b. Langport, Somerset, 

 1815 ; d. Pangbourne, Berks, 20th Aug. 1861. Brother of 

 preceding. Microscopist. Professor of Histology, R. Coll. Surg., 

 1856. F.R.S., 1860. F.L.S., 1857. ' Lectures on Histology,' 

 1852-4. ' Cat. Fossil PI. in Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons,' 1855. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1861-2, xciii. Pritz. 255 ; Jacks. 594; R,S.C. 

 v. 553; Gent. Mag. 1861, ii. 338, 454; 'Athenaeum,' 1861, 

 ii. 254. 



Quicke, William (fl. 1600). Apothecary. Found Smyrnium. 

 Parkinson, ' Theatrum,' 930. 



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