458 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Prince. William Robert Prince, 1795-1869. United States. 



Horticulturist. 

 Pursh. Frederick Traugott Pursh, 1774-1820. Traveled for 



12 years in the United States. Author of Flora Americae 



Septentrionalis. 

 Raf. Constantino Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1784-1842. 



Prof, of Natural History at Transylvania University, 



Kentucky. A keen, but erratic botanist. 



Raimann. Rudolf Raimann. Austria. Prof, at Vienna. 

 Rand. Edward Lothrop Rand. United States. 

 R. Br. Robert Brown, 1773-1858. England. A distinguished 

 botanist, author of many important works. 



Redfield. John Howard Redfield, 1815-1895. United States. 

 Joint author (with Rand) of a flora of ^It. Desert. 



Regal. Eduard August von Regel, 1815-1892. Russia. Di- 

 rector of the Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg. 



Rehder. Alfred Rehder. United States. Assistant at the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. 



Reichard. Johann Jakob Reichard, 1743-1782. Germany. 



Reichenb. Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, 1 793-1879. 

 Germany. Prof, at Dresden. 



Rendle. Alfred Barton Rendle. England. Keeper, Depart- 

 ment of Botan}^, British Museum. 



Retz. Anders Johan Retzius, 1742-1821. Sweden. Prof, at 

 Lund. 



Richard. Louis Claude Marie Richard, 1754-1821. France. 



Richards. John Richardson, 1787-1865. England. Surgeon 



and naturalist with Sir John Franklin's earlier expeditions. 



Wrote a botanical appendix to Franklin's narrative. 

 Ricker. Percy Leroy Ricker. United States. Scientific 



Assistant in Taxonomy, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Riddell. John Leonard Riddell, 1807-1867. United States. 

 Prof, at the University of Louisiana. Author of Synopsis 

 of the Flora of the Western States, Plants of Ohio, etc. 



Ries. Heinrich Ries. United States. Prof, at Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Robbins. James Watson Robbins, 1801-1879. United States. 

 Collected in New England, the Lake region, Virginia and 

 Maryland. Student of Potamogeton. 



Robinson. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson. United States. Prof, 

 of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Gray Herbarium, 

 Harvard University. Author of many papers on the plants 

 of North America and Mexico, a flora of the Galapagos 

 Islands, etc. 



