36 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Cockfield, Joseph (1740?-1816) : b. 1740?; d. Mar., 1816. Of 

 Upton, Essex. ' Catalogue of Scarce Plants.' ' The Botanist's 

 Guide ' (anon.), 1813 ; Letters, 1765-71, in Nich. Illust. v. 

 753-808. Pritz. 64 ; Jacks. 256 ; Friends' Books, i. 438. PI. 

 Midd, 398. 



Cocks, John (1787-1861) : b. Sussex, 1787 ; d. Devonport, 1861. 

 M.D. Algologist. ' Algarum fasciculi,' 1865-9. ' Seaweed 

 Collector's Guide,' 1853. ' Marine Algae,' Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 iv. 101. Pritz. 64 ; Jacks. 242 ; E. S. C. ii. 5. 



Coel, James (fl. 1610). Of Highgate. Merchant. Lobel's 

 son-in-law. Had a botanic garden at Highgate. Introduced 

 Cerasiis Laurocerasus. Pult. i. 125. 



Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776) : b. Dunse, Scotland, 17 

 Peb., 1688; d. Long Island, New York, 28 Sept., 1776. 

 M.D. Edin., 1705. Practised in Pennsylvania, 1708-15. 

 Surveyor-General of New York, 1719. Lieutenant-Governor, 

 1761. Introduced Linnean system into America. ' Plantae 

 Coldenhamias ' in ' Acta Upsaliensia,' 1743. Correspondent 

 of Linnaeus. ' Correspondence,' in Silliman's Journ. vol. 

 xliv. Pritz. 66 ; ' Memorials of Bartram,' p. 19 ; Linn. Corr. ii. 

 451-8, 476 ; Nich. Anec. v. 484 ; Appleton, ' Cyclop. Americ. 

 Biog.,' with portr. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 260. Goldenia L. 



Colden, Jane, afterwards Farquhar [see Paequhabj. 



Cole, Rev. Thomas (fl. 1725). Of Gloucester. Correspondent 

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



Colebrooke, Henry Thomas (1766-1837): b. London, 15 

 June, 1766; d. London, 10 Mar., 1837. F.E.S.; P.L.S., 

 1816. Sanskrit scholar. Chief Judge, Bengal. In India, 

 1783-1815. Furnished oriental names for Eoxburgh's 'Flora 

 Indica.' On Menispermum, Boswellia, &c.. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 1817-26. Collected in Sylhet ; and sent plants and 

 drawings to W. J. Hooker, Smith, Exot. Bot. ii. 115 ; Pritz. 

 65 ; E. S. C. ii. 12 ; Life by his son. Sir. T. E. Colebrooke, 

 in his ' Miscellaneous Essays,' 1872 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 282. 

 Colebrookia Donn =: Geratanthera Horn. Colebrookea Sm.V 



Coleman, Rev. William Higgins (1816 ?-63) : b. 1816 ? ; d. 

 Burton-on-Trent, 12 Sept., 1863. B.A. Camb., 1836; M.A., 



1838. Master at Christ's Hospital, Hertford; and, from 

 1847, at Ashby-de-la-JZouch Grammar School. Described 

 CEnanthe fluviatilis. Discovered Bunium Bulbocastanum, 



1839. 'Flora Hertfordiensis,' with E. H. Webb, 1849. 

 Pritz. 340; Jacks. 253, 256; Top. Bot. 640. Trans. Bot. 

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

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

 Buhus Colemanni Bloxam. 



Coles, or Cole, William (1626-62) : b. Adderbury, Oxon, 1626 ; 

 d. Winchester?, 1662. B.A. Oxon, 1661; B.D. Lived at 

 Putney. Art of Simpling, Introd. to Knowledge of PI.,' 

 1656. ' Adam in Eden,' 1667. " The most famous simpler 

 or herbalist of his time," Wood. Eees; Pritz. 65; Wood, 

 Ath. Ox. iii. 621 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 277. 



Collie, Alexander (d. 1836) : d. King George's Sound, Dec, 



