138 BIOaEAPHICAL INDEX OF 



Hort. Soc. in China (1821) and Bengal. Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 

 iii. 427 ; vii. 25. Pottsia Br. 



Potts, John (fl. 1842-52). Manager of Mint at Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. Sent plants to F. Scheer at Kew. ' Bot. Herald,' 

 285. 



Power, Rev. John (d. 1864 ?) : d. Cambridge, 1864 ?. Of 

 Atherstone, Leicester. Librarian, Univ. Cambridge, 1845- 

 64. ' Calendar of Flora at Market Bosworth,' 1807. Jacks. 

 256. 



Power, Thomas (fl. 1845). M.D. Lecturer on Bot., Cork 

 School of Medicine. ' Botanist's Guide for County of Cork,' 

 1845. Pritz. 252 ; Jacks. 250. 



Poynter, Richard [see Corbet]. 



Prescott, John D. (d. 1837) : d. St. Petersburg, 1837. Of St. 

 Petersburg. Correspondent of Hooker and Lindley. " A 

 learned and indefatigable botanist," Lindley, Bot. Eeg. 1916. 

 Collected in Eussia. Herbarium of 25,000 species in Field- 

 ing's at Oxford. Lasegue, 279 ; Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 342 ; 

 Hook. Bxot. Flora, t. 115 ; Wallich, List, p. 114. Prescotia, 

 Lindl. 



Preston, Charles (fl. 1696-1701). M.D. Of Edinburgh. Cor- 

 respondent of Bay, who styles him " eruditissimus vir, et 

 curiosissimus stirpium observator." Sent plants from Scot- 

 land and France to Plukenet. Mus. Pet. no. 266; Pluk. 

 Mant. 12 ; Herb. Sloaue, xvi. Ixi. ; Eay Corr. (Derham) 308- 

 16 ; Phil. Trans. 1696. Prestonia Br. 



Preston, George (fi. 1710-16). Superintendent, Edinburgh Gar- 

 den, until 1716. ' Catalogus omnium Plantarum, &c.,' 1710. 

 " An indefatigable botanist," Blair, Bot. Essays, pref. Misc. 

 Essays, 101. Pult. ii. 9 ; Jacks. 411. 



Price, John (1803 ?-87) : d. Chester, 1887. Of Chester. M.A. 

 ' Old Price's Eemains.' Papers on proliferous leaves in Liver- 

 pool Nat. Scrap-book and Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Science 

 (1878). E. S. C. viii. 662 ; Journ. Bot. 1888, 32. 



Pritchard, Stephen F. (fl. 1836). List of plants of St. Helena, 

 1836. Pritz. 253 ; Jacks. 353. 



Pryor, Alfred Reginald (1839-81): b. Hatfield, Herts., 24 

 April, 1839; d. Baldock, Herts, 18 Feb., 1881; bur. Bal- 

 dock. B.A. Oxon, 1862. F.L.S., 1874. ' Notes on Flora 

 of Hertfordshire,' Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc. 1875-6. 

 'Flora of Hertfordshire,' ed. B. D. Jackson, 1887. Library 

 and herbarium bequeathed to Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc. Jacks. 

 694 ; Journ. Bot. 1881, 276 ; Fl. Hertfordsh. xliv. ; Proc, 

 Linn. Soc. 1880-82, 19. 



Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) : b. Fieldhead, Leeds, 24 March, 

 1733; d. Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 6 Feb., 1804. 

 F.E.S., 1766. LL.D. Edin., 1767. Went to America, 1794. 

 ' Experiments relating to Nat. Philosophy,' 1781 (dealing 

 with chlorophyllian action). E. S. C. v. 19 ; Memoirs, partly 

 autob., 1806-7 ; Life by Corry, 1805 ; Misc. Works, 1817-34, 

 with bibliog. ; Chalmers ; Hoefer ; Michaud (by Cuvier) ; 

 Allibone; Gent. Mag. 1804, i. 375. Port, in 'Profiles o^ 



