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BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 117
Parker, Charles Sandbach (d. 1868 or 1869) : b. Glasgow
d. 18G8 or 1869. Of Aigbnrtli, Liverpool. Studied under
DeCandoUe at Geneva. Collected in Dutch Guiana and West
Indies, 1824. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 147; E. S. C. iv. 758;
Lasegue, 492. Herbarium at Kew. Parkcria Hook.
Parker, John Cowham (c. 1774-1841): b. circ. 1774; d. Hull?,
1841. Wine-merchant, of Hull. One of founders of Hull Bot.
Garden. "An enthusiastic botanist," E. W. Corlass, ' Sketches
of Hull Authors,' 1879, 108.
Parkinson, James (fl. 1780-1833). F.G.S. Surgeon. Practised
at Hoxton. ' Organic Eemains,' 1804-1811. Pritz. 240 ; Jacks.
589 ; E. S. C. iv. 760 ; Mantell, ' Pictorial Atlas of Fossil
Eemains,' 1850, p. 13.
Parkinson, John (1567-1650): b. Nottinghamshire (?), 1567; d.
London, Aug. 1650; bur. St.Martin's-in-the-Fields. Apothecary.
King's Herbarist ('Botanicus Eegius Primarius'). 'Paradisus
Terrestris,' 1629. ' Theatrum Botanicum,' 1640. Had a garden
in Long Acre, 'Theatrum,' 609. Pult. i. 138; Eees ; Pritz.
240; Jacks. 589; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 49, 53. Journ. Hort.
xxviii. 1875, 493, with portr. Portr. by C. Switzer in ' Paradisus';
and one by W. Marshall in ' Theatrum,' re-engraved in
Eichardson's Illustr. to Granger. ParMnsonia L.
Parkinson, John (d. 1847) ; d. Paris, 3rd April, 1847. F.E.S.
F.L.S., 1795. Consul- General in Mexico. Sent dried and
living plants to Kew. Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. iv. 128 ; Proc.
Linn. Soc. i. 336.
Parkinson, Sydney (d. 1771) :
Jan. 1771. Woollen-draper.
b. Edinburgh ; d. Indian Ocean,
Protege of Banks, with whom to
South Seas in 'Endeavour' as draughtsman, 1768. Drawings
in Dept. Bot., Brit. Mus. ' Journal of Voyage,' 1784 {cfr.
" Preface" and "Explanatory Eemarks": list of plants, 37-50).
Portrait prefixed to ' Jacks. 223.
Journal,' engr. Jas. Newton. Pritz. 240 ;
Parks, John Damper (fl. 1823). Collector for Hort. Soc. in
China and Java, 1823. Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 427.
Pamell, Richard (d. 1882) ; b. Devonshire ; d. Edinburgh, 1882.
Ichthyologist. M.D. F.E.S.E. Orig. Memb. Bot. Soc.Edinb.,
1836. Lived in Jamaica, 1839. ' Grasses of Scotland,' 1842
' Grasses of Britain,' 1845 ; both with figs, drawn and engraved
by himself. Pritz. 241 ; Jacks. 589 ;
Journ. Bot. 1883, 30
E. S. C. iv. 763. Herbarium of grasses at Linn. Soc. Poa
ParncUii Bab.
Parry, Charles Christopher (1823-1890) : b. Admington, Worcestershire,
28th Aug. 1823 ; d. Davenport, Iowa, 20th Feb. 1890.
Went to America, 1832. M.D. Botanical explorer and collector.
On Mexican Boundary Survey, 1850; in Eocky Mountains, 1861.
]jotanist to Agric. Dept. Washington, 1869-71. ' Chorizauthe,'
1884, 1889, and various bot. papers. Friend of Torrcy and
Gray. Herb, at Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences. Jacks. 689 ;
ll.S.C. iv. 767; viii. 565; 'Garden and Forest,' iii. 120; Bull.
Torrey Bot. Club, March, 1800. Pnms L'arrijana Engclm.