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APPENDIX. 



IT should have been observed in the notice of Dr. Darlington's 

 work, that there is prefixed to the letters of each of John Bar tram's 

 and Humphry Marshall's distinguished correspondents, a condensed 

 but careful, authoritative and interesting sketch of their respective 

 lives and characters. For that of Peter Collinson, Dr. Fothergill's 

 letter, and the Linnaean correspondence by Sir James Edward Smith, 

 are referred to as his leading authorities. It has been suggested that 

 it might be gratifying to those who take a lively interest in Peter 

 Collinson's history and character, to append to this edition, a brief 

 sketch of his Biography j and also to add the history of his descen- 

 dants, to the present time. This last has been furnished to Dr. 

 Darlington at his request, by the great-grand-daughter, Miss Anna 

 Maria Collinson, in a letter to him, dated Leamington, Warwickshire, 

 England, May 14, 1850, with which we have been kindly favoured. 



We learn from the letter published soon after his death, usually 

 ascribed to Dr. Fothergill, and re-published as such by Dr. Lettsom 

 in his edition of Fothergill's worksf that the family of the COLLIN- 

 SON'S is of ancient standing in the North : PETER and JAMES were 

 the great-grand-sons of Peter Collinson, who lived on the paternal 

 estate called Hugal Hall, or Height of Hugall, near Windermere 

 Lake, in the parish of Stavely, about ten miles from Kendal, in 

 Westmoreland. 



Peter was born January 28, 1693-4, in a house opposite to Church 

 Alley, St. Clement's Lane, Lombard street, London. He resided 

 for many years at the Red Lion, on Grace Church street, where as a 

 wholesale woollen draper, in company with his brother James, he 

 accumulated a handsome estate. In 1724, he married Mary, the 

 daughter of MICHAEL RUSSELL, Esq., of Mill Hill, Hendon. The 

 wife died in May, 1753, leaving him a son MICHAEL, and a daughter 

 MARY, married to the late JOHN CATOR, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent. 

 Both inherited many of the good qualities of their father, but Michael 

 is said to have allowed his political feeling to carry him away when the 

 war broke out with this country, even to the undervaluation of his 

 father's most intimate friend, Dr. Fothergill, and extending to both 



* Entitled " Some Account of the late Peter Collinson, Fellow of the Koyal Society, and of 

 the Society of Antiquaries in London, and of the Society of Berlin and Upsal. In a letter to 

 a friend, 1770." 



