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1835. Surgeon E.N. F.L.S., 1825. On board H.M.S. 

 Blossom, 1825-28. Collected in California, with Lay, in 

 1827 ; also in Chili and Australia, 1832. Plants in Herb. 

 Kew. Pritz. 66 ; ' Botany of Beeehey's Voyage ' ; Botany of 

 Geol. Surv. Californ. ii. 554. 



Collins — (fl. 1820?). M.D. MS. List of Barbados plants. 

 Maycock, Fl. Barbadensis, vii. 



Collins, Rev. John Coombes (fl. 1816-48). B.A. Camb., 

 1826 ; M.A., 1848. List of Somerset plants in N. B. G., 553. 



CoUinson, Michael (1729 ?-95): b. Peckham?, 1729?; d. 

 11 Aug., 1795; bur. at Sproughton, Suffolk. Of Hendon, 

 Middlesex, and Chantry, Suffolk. Only son of the following. 

 Nich. Anec. v. 315. 



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

 Street?, 14 Jan., 1694; d. London, 11 Aug., 1768 (not at 

 Thorndon). P.E.S., 1728; F.S.A., 1737. Woollen-draper. 

 Had garden at Peckham till 1749, and then at Mill Hill 

 (afterwards Salisbury's). Friend of Derham, Woodward, 

 Dale, Sloane, Linnseus, Bartram, Frankhn, &c. Contributed 

 to Gent. Mag. 1751-66. MS. account of introduction of 

 American seeds in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. Pult. ii. 275 ; 

 Eees ; Pritz. 66 ; Account by Dr. Fothergill, 1770, with 

 portr., engr. T. Trotter ; Nich. Anec. v. 309 ; ix. 609, with 

 portr. ; 'Hortus Collinsonianus,' by L. W. Dillwyn, 1843; 

 Friends' Books, i. 443 ; Linn. Corr. i. 1-77 ; Linn. Trans, x. 

 270; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 54, 81; Cott. Gard. viii. 143; 

 Gent. Mag. 1768, 398 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 882. Portr. at 

 Kew. Gollinsonia L. 



Colquhoun, Sir Robert (fl. 1822). Baronet. Collected in 

 Kumaon. PL in Hort. Bot. Calcutta. Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. 608. Golquhounia Wall. 



Colvill, William (fl. 1830). Of Arbroath. ' Functions of Spiral 

 Vessels.' Edinb. Journ. iii. (1830) 5 ; E. S. C. ii. 26. 



Compton, Hon. and Rev. Henry (1632-1713) : b. Compton 

 Wyniates, Warwick, 1632; d. Fulham, 7 July, 1713; bur. 

 Fulham. Cornet in Guards. M.A. Camb., 1661 ; and Oxon, 

 1666 ; D.D., 1669 ; ordained, 1662. Bishop of Oxford, 1674 ; 

 of London, 1675. Friend of Eay, &c. Introduced many 

 exotics, Loudon, ' Arboretum,' 50. Pult. ii. 105, 302 ; Pritz. 

 67 ; ' Life,' 1713 ; F. L. Colvile, 'Worthies of Warwickshire ' ; 

 Phil. Trans, xlvii. 241 ; Cott. Gard. iv. 183 ; vii. 171 ; Wood, 

 Athen. Ox. iv. 514 ; Fasti, ii. 293 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xi. 443. 

 Portr. mezz. by Is. Beckett, after J. Eiley ; by J. Simon, after 

 Hargrave, 1710 ; and engr. by D. Loggan, 1679 Oomptonia 

 Brongn. = Comptonites Nilss. ? Oomptonia Banks MS., Gartn. 



Conway, Charles (fl. 1836). List of Monmouth plants in 

 N. B. G. 629. E. S. C. ii. 38 ; Top. Bot. 542. 



Cook, James (1728-79) : b. Marton, Yorkshire, 27 Oct., 1728 ; 

 murdered Hawaii, 14 Feb., 1779. Circumnavigator. First 

 voyage, with Banks and Solander, 1768-71 ; second, with J. 

 E. and G. Forster, 1772-75; third, 1776-79. Pritz. 68; 

 Jacks. 634 ; Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 233 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xii. 



