BEITISH AND lEISH BOTANISTS. 139 



Warrington Worthies.' Statue at Birmingham. Priest- 

 ley a DC. 



Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801) : b. Loughborough, Leicester. 

 17 Feb., 1730; d. Blandford, Dorset, 18 Oct., 1801; bur. 

 Langton, near Blandford. M.D. Edin., 1764; L.E.C.P., 

 1766. F.L.S., 1790; P.E.S., 1762; F.E.S.E., 1793. Prac- 

 tised as surgeon at Leicester, and from 1765 at Blandford. 

 Contributed list of plants to Nichols' ' Hist. Leicestershire ' ; 

 and to Hutchins' ' Hist. Dorset.' ' View of Writings of 

 Linnffius,' 1781. ' Biographical Sketches,' 1790. MS. 

 ' Mora Anglica ' in Bot. Dept., Mus. Brit. Eees ; Pritz. 264 ; 

 Jacks. 594 ; Memoir by Maton in ' Writings of Linneeus,' 

 ed. 2, with portr. ; Gent. Mag., Ixxi. (1801), 1068, 1207 ; Fl. 

 Leic. p. xi. ; Munk, ii. 264 ; Oott. Gard. viii. 315 ; Gorham, 

 102 ; Nieh. Anec. viii. 196, and Hist. Leicester, iii. 848, both 

 with portr. engr. Basire, after oil by T. Beach (1788) at Linn. 

 Soc. Collections in Bot. Dept., Brit. Mus. Portr. Kew. 

 Pultencza Sm. 



Purdie, William (d. 1857) : d. Trinidad, 10 Oct., 1857. Kew 

 Collector in Trop. America and W. Indies. Journal in Journ. 

 Bot. 1844-5. Curator, Bot. Gard. Trinidad, 1846. Plants 

 at Kew. Journ. Bot. 1847, 40; Gard. Chron. 1867, 792; 

 E. S. C. V. 48. Purdiaa Planch. 



Purton, Thomas (1768-1833) : b. Endon Burnell, Bridgnorth, 

 Salop, 10 May, 1768 ; d. Alcester, Warwick, 29 April, 1833. 

 Surgeon. Practised in London, 1791-6, and then at Alcester. 

 Fungologist. Friend of Smith, W. J. Hooker, Greville, and 

 Sowerby. ' Midland Flora,' 1817-21. Pritz. 255 ; Jacks. 

 246 ; E. S. C. v. 46 ; Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. (1836), 606; Lees' 

 'Botany of Worcester,' Ixxxix. ; Fl. Warwicksh. 495. 



Quekett, Edwin John (1808-47): b. Langport, Somerset, Sept., 

 1808 ; d. 28 June, 1847. Microscopist and Surgeon. F.L.S., 

 1836. Lect. Bot. London Hosp., 1835. Orig. Memb. E. 

 Microscopic Soc. E. S. C. v. 58 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 378 ; 

 Phyt. iii. 110. Quekettia Lindl. 



Quekett, John Thomas (1815-61) : b. Langport, Somerset, 

 1815 ; d. Pangbourne, Berks, 20 Aug., 1861. Brother of pre- 

 ceding. Microscopist. Professor of Histology, E. Coll. Surg., 

 1866. F.L.S., 1857; F.E.S., 1860. ' Lectures on Histology,' 

 1852-4. 'Cat. Fossil PI. in Mus. Eoy. Coll. Surgeons,' 1856. 

 Pritz. 265 ; Jacks. 594 ; E. S. C. v. 553 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 1861-2, xciii. ; Gent. Mag. 1861, ii. 388, 454; 'Athenaeum,' 

 1861, ii. 254. 



Quicke, William (fl. 1600). Apothecary. Found Smyrniwn. 

 Parkinson, ' Theatrum,' 930. 



Rainey, George (fl. 1842-73). Lecturer on Micros. Anatomy, 

 St. Thomas' Hospital. ' Sap,' 1847. ' Starch-granules,' Quart. 

 Journ. Micros. Sci. viii. 1860, 1. Pritz. 256; Jacks. 80; 

 E. S. C. V. 79 ; viii. 689. 



Ralfs, John (1807-90) : b. Millbrook, Southampton, 13 Sept. 



