214 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813-1885): b. Exeter, 29fch 

 October, 1813; d. London, 10th November, 1885. M.D., 

 Edin.,1839. LL.D., 1871. C.B.,1872. F.R.S., 1844. P.L.S., 

 1856. Practised at Bristol till 1844. Fullerian Prof, of 



- Physiology, 1844. Registrar, London University, 1856-1879. 

 . 'General Physiology,' 1839. 'Vegetable Physiology,' 1844. 



Pritz. 56; Jacks. 70, 220; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1885-6, 138; 



Proc. G-eol. Soc. 1885-6, 40 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ix. 166. Portr. 



in Ipswich Museum Series; portr., Men of Eminence, 1864. 

 Carroll, Isaac (1828-1880): b. 1828; d. Aghada, Co. Cork, 17th 



September, 1880. Visited Lapland, 1864, and Iceland. Studied 



Cryptogarnia. Contributed to 'Cybele Hiberniea,' 1866. Her- 

 , barium and MS. Flora of Cork at Queen's College, Cork. Journ. 



Bot. 1881, 128 ; R. S. C. i. 801 ; vii. 339. 

 Castle, Thomas (c. 1804-1838) : b. Kent, c. 1804; d. Brighton (?), 



- 1838. M.D., Camb. F.L.S., 1827. Practised in Bermondsey. 

 'Systematic and Physiological Botany,' 1829. 'Medical Botany,' 

 1829. ! Synopsis of Systematic Botany,' 1833. ' Linnean 

 System, 1836. 'British Flora Medica,' with B. H. Barton, 

 1837. Pritz. 58 ; Jacks. 531 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ix. 275. 



Castle, R. (fl. 1840). « Description of a species of Rose new to the 

 British Flora,' Proc. Sci. Soc. Lond. 1840, ii. 36. R. S. C. i. 821. 



Catesby, Mark (1679 or 1680-1749) : b. Sudbury, Suffolk, 1679 

 or 1680 ; d. Old Street, London, 23rd December, 1749. F.R.S., 

 1733. Of Hoxton and Fulham. In Virginia, 1712-1719 ; in 

 Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Bahamas, &c, 1722-1726. 'Natural 

 History of Carolina,' 1730-1748. ' Hortus Europams-Ameri- 

 canus,' 1767. Pult. ii. 219; Rees ; Pritz. 58; Jacks. 110, 362; 

 Baillon, i. 655; Rich. Corr. 401 ; Linn. Letters, ii. 440; Nich. 

 Anec. i. 371 ; Gent. Mag. 1749, xx. 80; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 

 68, 81 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ix. 281. Catcsbea Gronovius. 



Cathcart, J. F. W. (fl. 1851). Bengal civilian. Collected at 

 Darjeeling, and had drawings made, which are now at Kew. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4596. Cathcartia Hook. fil. 



Catlow, Agnes (fl. 1847-1855). ' Popular Field Botany,' 1847. 

 ' Popular Garden Botanv,' 1855. Pritz. 58 ; Jacks. 42, 235. 



Chambers, Richard (1784-1858) : b. London, 1784 ; d. Balder- 

 ton, Notts, 20th December, 1858. F.L.S., 1822. Of Cecil 

 Court, St. Martin's Lane. Schoolmaster. ' Cat. of PI. of 

 Tring,' Mag. Nat. Hist. n. s. ii. 1838, 38 ; R. S. C. i. 868 : 

 ' Introduction to the Study of Botany,' 1847 ; Jacks. 486 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1859, xxx. 



Champion, John George (1815?-1851): b. 1815?; d. Scutari, 

 30th November, 1854. Lieut.-Col. In Ceylon, 1838-1847. Hong- 

 kong, 1817-1850. '. . on . . Cape of Good Hope,' Silliman's 

 Journ., 1836, 230. « Botany in Ceylon,' Journ. Agric. Hort. 

 Soc. India, ii. (1843), 371. ' Temstroamiaceae of Hong Kong,' 

 1850. Linn. Trans. 1855, xxi. 111. R. S. C i. 870; Gard. 

 Chron. 1854, 819 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. x. 33. Plants in Kew 

 Herbarium. < hmfiphma Gardn. . f 



Chandler, Alfred (fl. 1831). Nurseryman and floral artist, ot 



