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BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS.
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Liverpool, 15 Dec, 1847. Secretary, Bot. Soc. Warrington. 'Calendar of Flora,' 1810. Pritz. 72; Jacks. 261; Annual Monitor, 1849; Friends' Books, i. 494; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 213.

Crouch, Rev. James Frederick (1810?-89): b. Aynho, Beds., 1810? d. Pembridge, 1889. M.A. Oxon, 1833; B.D., 1841. Eector of Pembridge, Heref., 1849. 'On Cuscuta hassiaca'; Woolhope Club Trans., 1869, 123. Fl. Heref. pref. vi.; R. S. C. vii. 469.

Crowe, James (d. 1807). Of Lakenham, nr. Norwich. F.L.S., 1788. Studied mosses, fungi, and willows. Had a salicetum. Contributed to E. B. Helped Withering (Nat. Arr., pref. to ed. ii.); Smith, Lett. i. 17. Crowea Sm. Salix Croweana Sm.

Crowther, James (1768-1847): b. Manchester, 24 June, 1768; d. Manchester, 6 Jan., 1847; bur. St. George's, Hulme. Weaver and porter. Contributed to 'Flora Mancuniensis.' Discovered Cypripedium at Malham. Cash, 77; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 245.

Crozier, George (1792-1847): b. Eccleston, Lane, 1792; d. Hulme, Manchester, April, 1847. Saddler. Pupil of Thomas Townley, at Blackburn. Settled in Manchester, circ. 1831. Contributed to Phyt.i. Left large herbarium. Cash, 119.

Cruckshanks, Alexander (fl. 1831): Collected in Chili. 'Account of Excursion from Lima to Pasco.' R. S. C, ii. 100; Bot. Misc. ii. 168. Cruckshanksia Hook. & Am.

Cruickshanks, James (c. 1813-47): b. Montrose, c. 1813; d. Dumfries, 3 Dec, 1847. A.B.S. Edin. Cryptogamist. Dumfries Jungermanniae in Phyt. i.; Phyt. iii. 33.

Cullen, W. (1785-1862): b. 17 May, 1785; d. Allepey, India, 1 Oct., 1862. Resident at Court of Travancore. General, Madras Artillery. Meteorologist. Studied economic botany. Wight Icon. 1761. Balfour, Cyclop. India (ed. 2), i. 419. Cullenia Wight.

Cullen, W. H. (fl. 1849). M.D.; F.B.S.E. Of Sidmouth. 'Flora Sidostiensis,' 1849. Pritz. 73; Jacks. 259. Cttllum, Rev. Sir John (1733-85): b. Hawstead, Suffolk, 21 June, 1733; d. 9 Oct., 1785; bur. Hawstead. B.A. Camb., 1756. 6th Bart., 1774. F.R.S., 1775. Rector of Hawstead, 1762; of Great Thurlow, 1774. 'On Cedars in England,' Gent. Mag. 1779, 138. Discovered Veronica verna, E.B. 25. 'History of Hawstead,' w. list of plants, 1774; 'Naturalist's Journal,' 1772-85; B. G., 554. Hind Fl. Suff. 476. Nich. Anec. vi. 625; viii. 209, 673; Nich. Illust. vii. 408; Dict. Nat. Biog. xiii. 283. Portr. by Angelina Kauffmann, 1778, at Hardwick; engr. by Basire in 'History of Hawstead,' 1813; and in Nich. Anec. viii. 209. Culumia R. Br.

Cullum, Sir Thomas Gery (1741-1831): b. Hardwick House, Suffolk, 30 Nov., 1741; d. Bury St. Edmunds, 8 Sept., 1831; bur. Hawstead. M.R.C.S., 1800; F.L.S., 1790; F.R.S. Practised at Bury St. Edmunds. Bath King-at-arms, 17711800. 7th Bart, 1785 'Floræ Anglicæ Specimen,' 1774;