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156 BIOGBAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS.
19; Memoirs, partly autob., 1806-7; Life by Corry, 1805;
Misc. Works, 1817-1834, with bibliog. ; Chalmers; Hoefer
Michaud (by Cuvier) ; Allibone ; Gent. Mag. 1804, i. 375.
Portr. in ' Profiles of Warrington Worthies.' Friestleya DC.
Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801): b. Loughborough, Leicester,
17th Feb. 1730; d. Blandford, Dorset, 13th Oct. 1801; bur.
Langton, near Blandford. M.D., Edinb., 1764. L.K.C.P.
1765. F.L.S., 1790. F.E.S., 1762. F.R.S.E., 1793. Prac-
tised as surgeon and apothecary at Leicester, and from 1765 at
Blandford. Contributed list of plants to Nichols' ' Hist. Leicestershire';
and to Hutchins' 'Hist. Dorset.' ' View of Writings
of LimiEeus,' 1781. ' Biographical Sketches,' 1790. Collections
bequeathed to Linn. Soc. MS. ' Flora Anglica' in Bot. Dept.,
Mus. Brit. Rees; Pritz. 254; Jacks. 594; Memoir by Maton
in ' Writings of Linnfeus,' ed. 2, with portr. ; Memoir by John
Aikiu m 'Phil. Mag.; Gent. Mag. Ixxi. (1801), 1058,1207;
Munk, ii. 264; Cott. Gard. viii. 315; Gorham, 102; Nich.
Anec. viii. 196, and Hist. Leicester, iii. 848, both with portr.
engr. Basire, after oil by T. Beach (1788) at Linn. Soc. Also
engr. by T. Roberts. Portr. Kew. Pultcncca Sm.
Purdie, William (d. 1857) : d. Trinidad, 10th Oct. 1857. Kew
Collector in Trop. America and W, Indies. Journal in Journ.
Bot. 1844-5. Curator, Bot. Gard. Trinidad, 1846. Journ. Bot.
1847, 40; Gard. Chron. 1857, 792; R. S. C v. 43. Plants at
Kew. Furdiaa Planch.
Purton, Thomas (1768-1833) : b. Endon Burnell, Chetton, Salop,
10th May, 1768 ; d. Alcester, Warwick, 1833. Surgeon.
Practised in London, 1791-1795, and then at Alcester. Fungologist.
Friend of Smith, W. J. Hooker, Greville, and Sowerby.
' Midland Flora,' 1817-1821. Pritz. 255 ; Jacks. 246 ; R. S. C.
V. 46; Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. (1836), 606; Lees' ' Botany of Wor-
cester,' Ixxxix.
Quekett, Edwin John (1808-1847) : b. Langport, Somerset,
Sept. 1808 ; d. 28th June, 1847. Microscopist
F.L.S., 1836. Lect. Bot. London Hosp., 1835.
and Surgeon.
Orig. Memb.
E. Microscopic Soc. R. S. C. v. 53 ; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 378
Phyt. hi. 110. Quekettia Lindl.
Quekett, John Thomas (1815-1861) ; b. Langport, Somerset,
1815 ; d. Pangbourne, Berks, 20th Aug. 1861. Brother of
preceding. Microscopist. Professor of Histology, R. Coll. Surg.,
1856. F.R.S., 1860. F.L.S., 1857. ' Lectures on Histology,'
1852-4. ' Cat. Fossil PI. in Mus. Roy. Coll. Surgeons,' 1855.
Proc. Linn. Soc. 1861-2, xciii. Pritz. 255 ; Jacks. 594; R,S.C.
V. 553; Gent. Mag. 1861, ii. 338, 454; 'Athenaeum,' 1861,
ii. 254.
Quicke, William (fl. 1600). Apothecary. Found Smyrnium.
Parkinson, ' Theatrum,' 930.
(To be continued.)