446 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



1822. Superintendent of Government Bot. Garden, Ayer 

 Hitam, till 1834. Collector for Wallich. Curtis Cat. PI. of 

 Penang, 1892, 99. Dracana Ported Baker. 



Pratt, Anne. [See Pearless.] 



Pursh, Friedrich Traugott (1774-1820) : b. Tobolsk, Siberia, 

 4 Feb. 1774; d. Montreal, 11 July, 1820; bur. Montreal. 

 Travelled twelve years in United States (1799-1811), and after- 

 wards in Canada. In England, 1811-15. ' Verzeicbniss der 

 . . . Pflanzen,' 1799. ' Flora America septentrionalis,' 1814. 

 "Arranged materials for a Flora Canadensis." Edited ed. viii. 

 and ix. of Bonn's ' Hortus Cantabrigiensis,' 1815, 1819. Her- 

 barium purchased by Lambert. D. Don, Account of Lambert 

 Herb. 17 ; Sargent, ' Silva N. America,' ii. 39 ; Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1898, 13; Pritz. 254; Jacks. 594. 

 Purshia, DC. 



Quekett, Eliza Catherine. [See White.] 



Rae, John (1813-93) : b. Clestrain, Stromness, Orkneys, 30 Sept. 

 1813; d. Kensington, 22 July, 1893; bur. Kirkwall. M.D., 

 Edinb., 1833. LL.D. M.D., Montreal, 1880. F.R.S., 1880. 

 Arctic explorer. ' Narrative of Arctic Expedition in 1846-7,' 

 1850. Portr. by S. Hodges in Museum, Stromness; bust by 

 G. Maccallum in Edinb. Univ. Canadian Record of Science, 

 v. 484 ; Diet. Nat. Biogr. xlvii. 152 ; Appleton, Cyclop. Americ. 

 Biog., with portr. 



Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (1781-1826): b. at sea, off 

 Jamaica, 5 July, 1781 ; d. Highwood Hill, Middlesex, 4 July, 

 1826. Under-Secretary, Pulo Penang, 1805 ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Java, 1811-16. ' History of Java,' 1817. Large 

 collections lost at sea. Founded Zoological Society. Life, by 

 D. C. Boulger, with portraits, 1898 ; D. Don, Account of Lam- 

 bert Herb. 22 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 228. Portr. Nat. Port. 

 Gall, by Joseph. Eafflesia R. Br. 



Ralph, Thomas Shearman (d. 1892?): d. Melbourne, 1892? 

 A.L.S., 1842. M.R.C.S. Practised in Melbourne. ' Ele- 

 mentary Bot.,' 1849 : ed. ii. 1862. * Icones Carpologicae,' 1849. 

 Edited ' Opuscula Botauica ' of Thomas Johnson, 1847. ' The 

 Young Botanist,' 1865. R.S.C. v. 81 ; viii. 689; xi. 96; Pritz. 

 256 ; Jacks. 595. 



Ramsay, Christina, Countess of Dalhousie {nee Broun) (fl. 

 1805-33) : m. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, 1805. 

 In Nova Scotia, 1816-28 ; in India, 1829-32. Hon. Member 

 Bot. Soc. Ed. Collected extensively in Nova Scotia and Canada, 

 and in Simla and Penang. Sent plants to Sir W. J. Hooker. 

 *' Rendered essential service to botany" (Dedication of vol. Ix. 

 Bot. Mag.). Herbarium of about 1200 species presented to Bot. 

 Soc. Edmburgh. Fl. Indica, 70 ; Loud. Gard. Mag. i. 255 ; 

 Proc. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1836-7, 50 ; 1838-9, 52. Dalhousiea Grab. 



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