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to Sir W. J. Hooker; E. S. C, ii., 105 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 ii. 440; Loud. Gard. Mag. 1836; Mag. Zool. Bot. i. (1837), 

 210 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 317. 



Curnow, William (1809 ?-8r) : d. Newlyn, Penzance, 24 Jan., 

 1887. Market-gardener. Cryptogamist, especially Hepaticai. 

 Memb. Bot. Exch. Club. Supplied Mosses to Eabenhorst 

 for ' Bryotheca Europsea.' Contributed to Phyt. i., and to 

 Keys' Fl. Devon and Cornwall. West Cornwall Mosses in 

 Penzance Nat. Hist. Soc. Eeport, 1862-5, 56 ; 1881-2, 117. 

 Penzance N. H. S. Eeport, 1887-8, 309 ; Journ. Bot. 1888, 

 128. Crypt, herbarium in possession of W. E. Baily, 

 Penzance. Fissidens Gurnoivii Mitten. 



Currey, Frederick (1819-81) : b. Norwood, Surrey, 19 Aug., 

 1819 ; d. Blackheath, 8 Sept., 1881 ; bur. Weybridge. Eung- 

 ologist. M.A. Camb., 1844; E.L.S., 1856. Secretary, 

 1860-80; Treasurer, 1880. E.E.S., 1858. Translated 

 Schacht's ' Das Mikrosoop,' 1853, and Hofmeister's ' Higher 

 Cryptogamia,' 1862. Edited Badham's 'Esculent Funguses,' 

 1868; 'Fungi of Greenwich,' Phyt. 1854. Collection of 

 Fungi at Kew. Pritz. 73; Journ. Bot. 1881, 310; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1881-2, 59 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 412 ; E. S. C, 

 ii. 108, ix. 619 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 341. Photo portr. at 

 Linn. Soc. 



Curror, A. B. (fl. 1840). M.D., E.N.,of H.M.S. " Waterwitch." 

 Collected on "West Coast of Africa. Herb, at Kew, Ic. PI. 

 605. Gurroria Planch. 



Curtis, Samuel (1779-1860): b. Walworth, Surrey, 1779; d. 

 La Chaire, Eozel, Jersey, 6 Jan., 1860. Florist at Walworth. 

 Married a dau. of William Curtis in 1801. Became pro- 

 prietor of Bot. Mag. Lived at Glazenwood, Coggeshall, 

 Essex, and at La Chaire. F.L.S., 1810. Pritz. 73 ; Jacks. 

 536 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860, xxii ; Cott. Gard. xxiii. 335 ; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 349. 



Curtis, Thomas (fl. 1800). Brother of following. Conducted 

 Bot. Mag. 1799-1800. Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 479. 



Curtis, William (1746-99) : b. Alton, Hants, 1746 ; d. Bromp- 

 ton, 7 or 27 July, 1799; bur. Battersea. F.L.S., 1788. 

 Apothecary. Taught by John Lagg, ostler. Crown Inn, Alton. 

 Demonstrator to Fordyce at St. Thomas's Hospital. Prse- 

 fectus Horti, Chelsea, 1772-77. ' Flora Londinensis,' 1777- 

 87; 'Bot. Mag.' commenced, 1787; ' British Grasses,' 1787 ; 

 'Lectures,' 1805. Eees; Pritz. 73; Jacks. 536. Life by 

 Goodenough, Gent. Mag. vol. 69, pp. 628 & 635 ; by Thornton, 

 w. portr. in ' Lectures ' (1805) ; Nich. Illust. vi. 256 ; Indexes 

 to Bot. Mag. 1828; Felton, 184; Semple, 104; Annals of 

 Bot. (1806) 189; Friends' Books, i. 502; Fl. Midd. 393; 

 Cott. Gard. iv. 205; Journ. Hort. 1876, xxi. 239; Gard. 

 Chron. 1887, i. 479 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 349. Portr. in 

 Thornton's ' Botany,' and at Kew. Curtisia Alton. 



Cutler, Catherine (d. 1866) : d. Exmouth, 15 April, 1-866. Of 

 Sidmouth. Algologist. Algse in Herb. Mus. Brit Pritz. 

 74 ; Journ. Bot. 1866, 238. C^dleria Grev. 



