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1715. Surveyor-general of New York, 1719. Lieutenant- 

 governor, 1761. Introduced Linnean system into America. 

 ' Plantae Coldenhamiae ' in 'Acta Upsaliensia,' 1743. Corre- 

 spondent of Linnaeus. Pritz. 65 ; ' Memorials of Bartram,' 

 p. 19 ; « Correspondence,' in Silliman's Journ. vol. xliv. ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xi. 260; Linn. Letters, ii. 451-8, 476; Nich. Anecd. 

 v. 484 ; Appleton, • Cyclop. Americ. Biog.,' with portr. 



Goldenia L. 



HAR 



C olden, Jane, afterwards Farquhar. [See Farqi 



Cole, Thomas (fl. 1725). Of Gloucester. Dissenting Minister. 



Correspondent of Dillenius. Burnt his herbarium. Pult. ii. 191. 



Colebrooke, Henry Thomas (1765-18371: b. London, 15th 

 June, 1765 ; d. London, 10th March, 1837. F.R.S. F.L.S., 

 1816. Sanskrit scholar. Bengal Civil Service. In India, 



1783-1815. Furnished 



Flora 



Indica.' 'On Mmispermum, Boswellia, &c.,' Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 1817-1826. Pritz. 65 ; B. S. C. ii. 12 ; Life by his son, Sir 

 T. Edward, in his ' Miscellaneous Essays,' 1872 ; Diet. Nat. 



Biog. xi. 282. Colebrookia Donn = Ceratantliera Horn. Cole- 

 broohea Sm. 



Coleman, William Higgins (1816 ?-1863): b. 1816?; d.Burton- 

 on-Trent, 12th September, 1863. Clerk. B.A., Camb. 1886. 

 M.A., 1838. Ordained, 1840. Master at Christ's Hospital, 

 Hertford; and, from 1847, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar- 

 school. Described (Enanthe fhmatUu. ' Flora Hertfordiensis,' 

 with R. H. Webb, 1849. Pritz. 340 ; Jacks. 253, 255 ; Trans. 

 Bot. Soc. Edin. viii. 13 ; R. S. C. ii. 13 ; ' Flora of Hertfordshire,' 

 1887, xlii. ; Journ. Bot. 1863, 318 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 290. 



Eubus Colemanni Bloxam. 



Coles, or Cole, William (1626-1662) : b. Adderbury, Oxon, 1626; 

 d. Winchester ? 1662. B.A., Oxon, 1650. B.D. ' Art of 

 Simpling, Introd. to Knowledge of PI.,' 1656. ' Adam m Eden,' 

 1657. Rees ; Pritz. 65 ; Wood, Athen. Ox. ed. Bliss, m. 621 ; 



Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 277. _ _ , 



Collie, Alexander (d. 1835) : d. King George's Sound, December, 

 1835. Surgeon R.N.,F.L.S., 1825. Onboard H.M.S. 'Blossom,' 

 1825-1828. Collected about 175 species in California, with 

 Lay, in 1827. Pritz. 66 ; W. J. Hooker, ' Botany of Capt. 

 Beechey's Voyage ' ; Botany of Geol. Surv. Californ. 554. 

 Collinson, Michael (1729 ?-1795) : b. Peckhani ? 1729?; d. 

 11th August, 1795 ; bur. at Sproughton, Suffolk. Of Hendon, 

 Middlesex, and Chantry, Suffolk. Only son of Peter Collinson. 



Nich. Anec. v. 315. _ , , 



Collinson, Peter (1694-1768) : b. St. Clement's Lane, Lombard 



Street, or near Windermere ? 14th January, 1694 ; d. London, 

 11th August, 1768. F.R.S. , 1728. F.S.A., 1737. Friend. 

 Woollen-draper. Had garden at Peckham till 1749, and then 

 at Mill Hill (afterwards Salisbury's). Friend of Derham, 

 Woodward, Dale, Sloane, Linnaeus, Bartram, Franklin, &c. 

 Contributed to Gent. Mag. 1751-1766. Pult. ii. 275 ; Rees ; 

 Pritz. 66. Account by Dr. Fothergill, 1770, with portr. engr. ; 



