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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF

66. Portr., by Dance, at Greenwich Hospital. Two Wedgwood medallions. Cookia Sonn.

Cook, Samuel Edward, afterwards Widdrington [see Widdrington].

Cooke, George (1781-1834): b. London, 1781; d. Barnes, Surrey, 1834. Line-engraver. Drew plates for Loddiges' 'Bot. Cabinet.' Bryan.

Cooper, Daniel (1817?-42): b. 1817?; d. Leeds, Yorkshire 24 Nov., 1842; bur. Quarry Hill Cemetery, Leeds. A.L.S 1837. Curator Bot. Soc. Lond., 1838. Assistant Zool. Dep. Mus. Brit. Assistant-Surgeon in Army, 1842. 'Flora Metropolitana,' 1836. Supplement, 1837. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 534; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 173; Gent. Mag.xix. (1843), 108; R S. C. ii. 41; Proc. Boc. Soc. Lond. 1839; Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. (1838) 163; Johnston Corr. 71; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 141. Cooperia Herbert.

Cooper, Thomas Henry (fl. 1759?-1840?). F.L.S., 181 'Botany of Sussex,' 1834. MS. PL of Notts, N. B. G. vii. 265. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 260; Journ. Bot. 1875, sup., p. 6; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 152.

Coote, Dr. (fl. 1640). Of Shropshire. Sent Drosera anglica to Parkinson. Theatr. 1053.

Copland, William (fl. 1556-69): d. London, 1568 or 1569 Printer. Compiled 'Boke of the Properties of Herbes,' 1552 Pult. i. 51; Herbert in Dibdin's Ames, iii. 133; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 174.

Corbet, Richard, alias Poynter (fl. 1597). Nurseryman, Twickenham. Gerard, 'Herbal,' 1269. [Vincent Corbet, a nurseryman of Ewell, was father of Richard Corbet (158: 1635), Bishop of Oxford and Norwich. Dict. Nat. Biog. xii. 203.]

Corder, Thomas (d. 1874): d. 15 Oct., 1874. Of Writtle Essex. A.L.S., 1833. Local Sec. Bot. Soc. Lond. Found Bupleurum falcatum in 1831. E. B. S. 2763. Phyt. ii. 336. Went to Adelaide, S. Australia, 1843.

Comthwaite, Rev. Tullie (1807?-79): b. London, 1807 d. Walthamstow? 1 May, 1879. M.A. Oxon, 1830; F.L.S. 1864. Of Walthamstow. Formed a herb, and purchase some of Ed. Forster's plants. Herb, now in possession Hildebrand Ramsden, Esq.

Corry, Thomas Hughes (1860?-83): b. Ireland, 1862; drowned in Lough Gill, 4 Aug., 1883. B.A. Camb., 188: F.L.S., 1882. Assistant Curator University Herbarium. Lecturer in the Medical and Science Schools, Cambridge. 'Flora of N. E. Ireland,' with S. A. Stewart. Journ. Bot. 1883, 313; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-86, 3; R. S. C. ix. 583.

Corson, James (1815-41): b. Dalscairth, Dumfriesshire, 1815; d. at sea, 16 June, 1841; bur. Dutch Cemetery, Timor. Surgeon to South Sea whaler. Collected in South Sea Islands (plants and shells). Plants in Edinb. Herb. Loud. Gard. Mag. xviii. 369. Lithospermum Corsonianum Don.

Couch, Jonathan (1789-1870): b. 15 March, 1789, Polperro,