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Petersburg, 4tli May, 1842. Historical painter. H.M. Consul
at Caraccas, 182G-1841. Zoologist. Knighted, 1813. Caraccas
plants in Fielding's Herb, at Oxford. Journ. Bot. 1854, 283;
Ic. PI. 8G4; Gent. Mag. 1842, ii. 99; 1850, ii. 3G4 ; 'Athenaeum,
1842, 479 ; AUiboue ; Bryant ; Hoefer ; Michaud. Por-
tcria Hook. = Phi/llactis.
Potts, John (d. 1822): d. London?, Oct. 1822. Collector for
Hort. Soc. in China (1821) and Bengal. Trans. Hort. Soc. v.
iii. 427; vii. 25. Pottsio Br.
Potts, John (fl. 1842-1852). Manager of Mint at Chihuahua,
Mexico. Sent plants to F. Scheer at Kew. 'Bot. Herald,' 285.
Power, Rev. John (d. 18G4?) : d. Cambridge, 18G4 ? Of Atherstone,
Leicester. Librarian, Univ. Cambridge, 1845-1864.
'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.
Jacks. 250.
Pritz. 252 ;
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. Pieg. 1910. Collected
in Eussia. Herbarium of 25,000 species in Fielding's at
Oxford. Lasegue, 279 ; Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 342 ; Hook. Exot.
Flora, t. 115; Wallich, List, p. 114. Prescotia Lindl.
Preston, Charles (fl. 1G9G-1701). M.D. Of Edinburgh. Correspondent
of Bay, who styles him " eruditissimus vir, et curiosissimus
stirpium observator." Sent plants from Scotland and
France to Plukenet. Mus. Pet. no. 266 ; Pluk. Mant. 12
Herb. Sloan, xvi. Ixi. ; Ray Lett. (Derham) 308-16; Phil.
Trans. 1696. Prcstonia Br.
Preston, George (fl. 1710-1716). Superintendent, Edmbui-gh
' Garden, until 1716. Catalogus omnium Plantarum,
1710, "An indefatigable botanist," Blair, Bot. Essays,
&c.,'
pref.
Misc. Essays, 101 ; Pult. ii. 9 ; Jacks. 411.
Price, John (1803 ?-1887) : d. Chester, 1887. Of Chester. M.A.
' Old Price's Eemains.' Papers on proliferous leaves in Liverpool
Nat. Scrap-book and Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Science
(1878). R. S. C. viii. 062; Journ. Bot. 1888, 32.
Pritchard, Stephen F. (fl. 1836). List of plants of St. Helena,
1836. Pritz. 253 ; Jacks. 353.
Pryor, Alfred Reginald (1839-1881): b. Hatfield, Herts., 24th
April, 1839 ; d. Baldock, Herts., 18th Feb. 1881 ; bur. Baldock.
B.A., Oxon, 1862. F.L.S., 1874. ' Notes on Fl. of Hertford-
shire,' Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc. 1875-6. 'Flora of
Hertfordshire,' ed. 15. D. Jackson, 1887. Library and herbarium
bequeathed to Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc. Journ. Bot. 18H1, 27G
Fl. Hertfordsh. xliv. ; Jacks. 594 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1880-82, 19.
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) :
1733 ;
b. Fioldhcad, Leeds, 18th March,
d. isorthumberland, Pennsylvania, 6th Feb. 1804.
F.R.S., 17GG. LL.D., Edinb., 1767. Went to America, 1794.
' Experiments relating to Nat. Philosophy,' 178] . R. S. C. v.