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accounts of Dr. Stephen Hales and Dr. Wm. Stukely. One paper in 1764 

 communicates an account of the custom, in Spain, of placing the sheep on 

 the cool mountains during the summer season. 



Collinson was attacked by " strangury " whilst on a visit to Lord 

 Petre, and came home to die. No murmur escaped him : " Few men have 

 enjoyed life more," he said ; " I am thankful to Providence he has pre- 

 served me so long. I cheerfully resign, and am not afraid to die." He 

 was buried in Friends' Burial Ground, Long Lane, Bermondsey. Enclosed 

 in his Will was a paper, stating " that he hoped he should leave behind 

 him a good name, which he valued more than riches : that he had en- 

 deavoured not to live uselessly ; and that all his days he constantly aimed 

 to be a friend to mankind." He left two children : a son, Michael Collinson, 

 born 1727, who succeeded him at Mill Hill ; and a daughter Mary, who 

 married in 1753 John Cator, afterwards of Beckenham, Kent, a member 

 of a family since well known in that neighbourhood. Although Cator 

 at first " scarce knew an apple tree from an oak," both he and young 

 Collinson became so eager about plants that the father said he had something 

 to do to manage them. Michael Collinson corresponded with Bartram after 

 his father's death until the war. He was a man of travel and culture ; un- 

 happily, in later life, moved by political prejudice, and perhaps also owing 

 to the painful disorders from which he suffered, he turned against his old 

 friends and even his father's memory. Having inherited the Russell property, 

 M. Collinson resided at the Chauntry, Sproughton, Ipswich, where he died 

 in 1795. His only son, Charles Streynsham Collinson, lived long in India, 

 and afterwards at Sproughton, serving as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1801. 

 After his death, the fine Collinson library was sold, in 1834. C. S. Collinson's 

 three sons died in war service, leaving no male descendant of Peter Collinson 

 to bear his name. See Darlington, op. cit. ; Gent. Mag., 1797, p. 792 ; 1812, 

 i. 207 ; 1834, i. 11-15 ; 1840, ii. 332 ; Some Anecdotes of P. Collinson, ed. 1785 ; 

 MS. Letter, Franklin to P. Collinson, June 26, 1753, with caustic endorsement, 

 sold at Sotheby's, Dec. 1913 ; Gardeners' Chronicle, 1895, p. 6 ; Corresp. of 

 Dr. R. Richardson, 1835, p. 401 note ; Tablets in Sproughton Church. On 

 Peter Collinson, see also Account by Fothergill in the latter's Works, and in 

 Gent. Mag., 1770, 177, which was afterwards recast as a Memoir by Lettsom, 

 and appended to 4th edition of his Mem. Fothergill, 1786 ; Letters printed in 

 Corresp. Linnczus ; and MS. Letters from and to Collinson, preserved at the 

 British Museum (Sloane and Add. MSS.), and at the Museum of Natural 

 History ; other MS. letters are in the hands of J. H. Tritton of Lyons Hall, 

 near Chelmsford, and of the Logan family of Philadelphia, and at Fds. Ref. 

 Lib., London ; some also were sold at Sotheby's, Dec. 5, 1916 ; Phil. Trans. 

 xxxvi-lvii ; also Roy. Soc. Letters and Papers, Dec., i-iv ; Archczologia, i. 305 ; 

 MS. Registers, Soc. of Friends; Loudon, Arboretum, pt. i. ch. ii. sect. 2; 

 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. ; Southey, The Doctor ; W. H. Dillingham, Tribute, etc., in 

 Biblical Repertory, Phila., 1851, xxiii. 416, reprinted with additions, 2nd ed. 

 1852 ; Britten and Boulger, Bibliographical Index of British and Irish Botanists. 

 Engraved portraits of Collinson, by J. Miller and by Trotter, are prefixed to 

 his memoirs ; the original oil portrait is unknown. 



