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BIOGEAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 119
Pearce, Nathaniel (c. 1780-1820) : b. East Acton, Middlesex,
circ. 1780 ; d. Alexandria, 12th Aug. 1820. Lived in Abyssinia,
1809-1819. Sent plants
New Monthly Mag. 1821.
to Brown.
Plants in
'Account of Abyssinia,'
Herb. Mus. Brit. 'Life
and Adventures,' autobiog., 1831 ; Salt's 'Abyssinia' ; Michaud.
Pearce, Richard (d. 1868) : d. Panama, 19th July, 1868. Of
Stoke Devonport. Collector
Plants at Kew and Brit. Mus.
for Messrs. Veitch and
Journ. Bot. 1868, 320 ;
Bull.
Gard.
Chron. 1868, 874, 893;
acanthus Pearcei Hook. f.
Journ. Hort. xv. (1868), 134. Stemon-
Pechey, John (1654-1693 or 1717) : b. Chichester, Dec. 1654 ;
d. Chichester, May, 1693, or June, 1717; bur. St. Peter the
Less or St. Andrew, Chichester. B.A., Oxon, 1675. M.A.,
1678. M.D. F.R.C.P., 1684. ' Herbal of Physical Plants,'
1694. Pult. i. 184; Pritz. 243; Jacks. 590; Muuk, i. 433.
Pecheya Scop.
Peddle, Lieut.-Col. (fl. 1840) : Lieut. -Col. 72nd Eegt. Collected
at Natal, 1839-40. Journ. Bot. 1840, 124, 265. Peddiea Harv.
Peete, William (1771-18481 : b. 27th June, 1771 ; d. Bromley,
Kent, 4th 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 (fl. 1845). Lived in Madeira. 'Madeira
Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns,' 1845 (plates drawn by her). Pritz.
243 ; Jacks. 352.
Penneck, Rev. Henry (1801-1862) : b. Penzance, 1801 ; d. same
place, 24th April, 1862. M.A., Camb., 1830; Oxon, 1847.
Curate of Morvah, 1826. A.L.S. Contrib. to Eng. Bot.
850, 2818, 2845, &c. Had a herbarium. Gent. Mag. 1862, ii.
106 ; Jones, ' Bot. Tour,' Devon and Cornwall, 29, 30.
Penny, George (d. 1838 or 1839). Nurseryman. Of Epsom,
Siurrey. A.L.S. , 1829. ' Hortus Epsomensis.' Proc. Linn.
Soc. i. 36.
Penny, Rev. Thomas (d. 1589). B.A., Camb., 1551. M.A.,
1559. D.D. F.R.C.P.,1582. Prebendary of St. Paul's, 1560.
Entomologist. ''A second Dioscorides," Gerard. Pult. i. 84
Lobel, 'Adversaria,' 368, 394, 397; Cooper, Athena) Cantab.
ii. 78 ; Munk, i. 82 ; Rose. Myrtocistus Penncci Clusius =
Hypericum balearicum.
Percival, Thomas (1740-1804) : b. Warrington, 29th Sept. 1740;
d. Manchester, 30th Aug. 1804. M.D., Leyden, 1765. F.R.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 ; R. S. C. iv. 828.
Percy, John (1817-1889) : b. Nottingham, 1817 ; d. June, 1889.
Metallurgist. M.D., Edinb. F.R.S. M.B.S.E., 1837. Collected
in S.E. France and Switzerland, 1836-7. Plants in
Edinburgh University Herbarium. First Report Bot. Soc.
Edinburgh, 43-45 (1836) ; Trans. B. S. Ed. xvii. 522.
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