40 BIOGEAPHICAIi INDEX OF 



wards practised as physician at Ipswich. A.L.S., 1788 ; 

 F.L.S., 1794. ' Hortus Botanicus Gippovicensis,' 1795 ; 

 ' Index Plantarum,' vol. i. 1807. Pritz. 71 ; Jacks. 13, 14, 

 412; Gent. Mag., 1810, i. 389; Eioh. Corr., 184; Nich. 

 lUust. vi. 877 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xii. 424. 



Coys, William (fl. 1600). Of Stuhbers, N. Ockington, Essex. 

 First flowered Yucca, 1604. Lobel, ' Adversaria,' i. 501 ; ii. 

 471 ; Parkinson, Theatrum, 84. 



Crabbe, Rev. George (1754-1832) : b. Aldborough, Suffolk. 24 

 Dec, 1754 ; d. Trowbridge, Wilts, 3 Feb., 1832 ; bur. Trow- 

 bridge. Poet. Chaplain to Duke of Eutland at Belvoir, 

 1782. LL.B. Cant., 1784. Eector of Trowbridge, 1813-32. 

 Wrote, but destroyed, ' Essay on Botany ' ; pub. list of pi. in 

 Nichols' ' Hist. Leicestershire,' vol. i. Bot. Guide, 537 ; 

 Hind. Fl. Suffolk, 479 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xii., 428. Monu- 

 ment at Trowbridge. Portrs. by Pickersgill and by PhUlips, 

 engr. Grabbea Harv. 



Cresswell, Rev. R. (fl. 1846). Of Salcombe Eegis, and Sid- 

 mouth, Devon. ' Flowering PI. and Ferns of Sidmouth,' 

 1846. Experimented on Algas and sent specimens to Harvey. 

 Harvey, Phye. Brit. 1. 16 ?, 160. Schizothrix Gresswellii Harv. 



Crichton, Sir Alexander (1763-1856) : b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec, 

 1763 ; d. June, 1856. M.D., Leyden, 1785; L.E.C.P., 1791 ; 

 F.L.S., 1793 ; F.E.S., 1800. Knighted 1821. Physician to 

 the Czar. ' Vegetable Eemains near BaUisadiere, co. SUgo,' 

 Trans. Geol. Soc. Munk. ii. 416; Proc. Linn. Soc 1857, 

 XXV. ; Proc. Eoy. Soc. iii. (1856) 269 ; Quart. Joum. Geol. 

 Soc xiii. (1857) Lsiv. ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 85. 



Crichton, James Smitti (1841-87) : b. Gaixfield, Arbroath, 2 

 April, 1841; d. Arbroath, 28 June, 1887. M.D. Edin., 1864 ; 

 F.B.S. Edin., 1886. President Nat. Hist. Assoc Arbroath. 

 Helped to compile ' Flora of A.,' 1882. Trans. B. S. Edin. 

 xvii. 522 ; Scott. Nat. 1887, 175. 



Cripps, John Marten (1780?-1853) : d. 3 Jan. 1853. F.L.S., 

 1803 ; M.A. Camb., 1803. TraveUed in East with Dr. E. D. 

 Clarke, and collected plants. At one time owned Pallas's 

 Herb. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 231. 



Croall, Alexander (1809-85) : b. near Brechin, 1809; d. Stir- 

 ling, 19 May, 1885. Of Guthrie, Forfar. Local Sec Bot. 

 Soc. London, 1843 ; Ass. B. S. Edin., 1838. ' Plants of Brae- 

 mar ' (dried specimens), 1855 ; ' Nature-printed Brit. Sea- 

 weeds ' [with Johnstone] , 1859-60. Keeper of Museum 

 and Herbarium, Derby, 1863. Parish schoolmaster ; then 

 curator. Smith Institute, Stirling, 1873. Herbarium at 

 StirUng. Pritz. 157 ; Jacks. 242 ; E. S. C. ii. 95 ; vii. 460 ; 

 Trans. Bot. Soc Ed. xvi. 309 ; Smiles, ' Men of Invention ' ; 

 Scott. Nat. 1885, 98, 148. 



Crocker, C. W. (1832-68) : b. Chichester, 1832 ? ; d. Torquay, 

 Devon, 19 Feb., 1868. Foreman at Kew. Afterwards verger, 

 Chichester Cathedral. ' Germination of CyrtandrecB,' Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. v. 1861. Gard. Chron. 1868, 242. 



Crosfield, George (1785-1847) : b. Warrington, 1785 ; d. 



