134 BIOGEAPHICAI. INDEX OF 



Peddle, — (fl. 1840) : Lieut.-Col. 72nd Eegt. Collected at Natal, 

 1839-40. Journ. Bot. 1840, 124, 265. Peddiea Harv. 



Peete, William (1771-1848) : b. 27 June, 1771 ; d. Bromley, 

 Kent, 4 Feb., 1848. F.L.S., 1794. Surgeon at Dartford 38 

 years. Described Silene patens for Eng. Bot. 2748. Contrib. 

 to Phyt. i. 587. Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 377. 



Penfold, Jane Wallas (Mrs.) (fl. 1845). Lived in Madeira. 

 ' Madeira Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns,' 1845 (plates drawn by 

 her). Pritz. 243 ; Jacks. 352. 



Penneck, Rev. Henry (1801-62) : b. Penzance, 1801 ; d. same 

 place, 24 April, 1862. M.A. Camb., 1830; Oxon, 1847. 

 Curate of Morvah, 1826. A.L.S. Contrib. to Eng. Bot. 

 850, 2818, 2846, &c. Had a herbarium. Gent. Mag. 1862, 

 ii. 106 ; Jones, ' Bot, Tour,' Devon and Cornwall, 29, 30. 



Penny, George (d. 1838 or 39). Nurseryman. Of Epsom, 

 Surrey. A.L.S., 1829. ' Hortus Epsomensis.' Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 36. 



Penny, Rev. Thomas (d. 1589). B.A. Camb., 1551; M.A., 

 1659; D.D. F.E.C.P., 1582. Prebendary of St. Paul's, 

 1560. Entomologist. " A second Dioscorides," Gerard. 

 Pult. i. 84; Lobel, 'Adversaria,' 358, 394, 397; Cooper, 

 AthensB Cantab, ii. 78 ; Munk, i. 82 ; Eose. Myrtocistus 

 PenncBi Clusius = Hypericuin halearicum. 



Percival, Thomas (1740-1804) : b. Warrington, 29 Sept., 1740 ; 

 d. Manchester, 30 Aug., 1804. M.D. Leyden, 1765. F.E.S. 

 Practised in Manchester from 1767. ' Perceptive Power of 

 Vegetables,' Manchester Phil. Soc. Mem. ii. 1789, 122. 

 ' Works,' with memoir, 1807. Pritz. 243 ; Jacks. 82 ; E. S. C. 

 iv. 823. ■ 



Percy, John (1817-89) : b. Nottingham, 1817 ; d. June, 1889. 

 Metallurgist. M.D. Bdin. F.E.S. M.B.S.E., 1837. Col- 

 lected in S.E. France and Switzerland, 1836-7. Plants 

 in Edinburgh University Herbarium. First Eeport Bot. 

 Soc. Edinburgh, 43-45 (1836) ; Trans. B. S. Ed. xvii. 521. 



Pereira, Jonathan (1804-63) : b. Shoreditch, 22 May, 1804 ; 

 d. London, 20 Jan., 1863 ; bur. Kensal Green. M.D. Erlan- 

 gen, 1840. F.E.S., 1888; F.E.C.P., 1845; F.L.S., 1828. 

 Prof. Mat. Med. Pharm. Soc. 1843. Translation of ' Pharma- 

 copoeia,' 1824. 'Elements of Materia Medica,' 1839-40. 

 Pritz. 243 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 237 ; E. S. C. iv. 825 ; Phar- 

 maceut. Journ. 1862-3, 409, with portr. engr. by D. Pound 

 from daguerrotype by MayaU. Bust by McDowall at London 

 Hosp. Medal by Wyon at Pharm. Soc. 



Perkins, E. E. (Mrs.) (fl. 1837). "Professor of Botanical 

 Flower Painting." Of Chelsea. ' Elements of Botany,' 1837. 

 Lectured on Botany. Jacks. 39. 



Perry, William Groves (1796-1863) : b. Warwick, 1796 ; d. 

 Warwick, 25 March, 1863. Curator, Warwicksh. Mus. 1840. 

 F.B.S.Bd., 1840. ' Plantse Varvicenses Selects,' 1820. 

 Herb, in Warwick Museum. Pritz. 244 ; Jacks. 261 ; Phyt. 

 i. 700 ; Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. viii. 14 ; Fl. Warwicksh. 494. 



Petiver, James (c. 1658-1718) : b. Hill Morton, Warwickshire, 



