1835. Surgeon K.N. F.L.S., 1825. On board H.M.S. Blossom 1825-28. Collected in California, with Lay, in 1827; also in Chili and Australia, 1832. Plants in Herb. Kew. Pritz. 66; ' Botany of Beechey's Voyage '; Botany of Geol. Surv. Californ. ii. 554.
Collins—(fl. 1820?). M.D. MS. List of Barbados plants. May cock, Fl. Barbadensis, vii.
Collins, Rev. John Coombes (fl. 1816-48). B.A. Camb., 1826; M.A., 1848. List of Somerset plants in N. B. G., 553.
Collinson, Michael (1729?-95): b. Peckham?, 1729?; d. 11 Aug., 1795; bur. at Sproughton, Suffolk. Of Hendon, Middlesex, and Chantry, Suffolk. Only son of the following. Nich. Anec. v. 315.
Collinson, Peter (1694-1768): b. St. Clement's Lane, Lombard Street?, 14 Jan., 1694; d. London, 11 Aug., 1768 (not at Thorndon). F.R.S., 1728; P.S.A., 1737. Woollen-draper. Had garden at Peckham till 1749, and then at Mill Hill (afterwards Salisbury's). Friend of Derham, Woodward, Dale, Sloane, Linnaeus, Bartram, Franklin, &c. Contributed to Gent. Mag. 1751-66. MS. account of introduction of American seeds in Bot. Dept. Brit. Mus. Pult. ii. 275; Rees; Pritz. 66; Account by Dr. Fothergill, 1770, with portr., engr. T. Trotter; Nich. Anec. v. 309; ix. 609, with portr.; 'Hortus Collinsonianus,' by L. W. Dillwyn, 1843; Friends' Books, i. 443; Linn. Corr. i. 1-77; Linn. Trans, x. 270; Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 54, 81; Cott. Gard. viii. 143; Gent. Mag. 1768, 398; Dict. Nat. Biog. xi. 382. Portr. at Kew. Collinsonia L.
Colquhoun, Sir Robert (fl. 1822). Baronet. Collected in Kumaon. PI. in Hort. Bot. Calcutta. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 608. Colquhounia Wall.
Colvill, William (fl. 1830) . Of Arbroath. 'Functions of Spiral Vessels.' Edinb. Journ. iii. (1830) 5; R. S. C. ii. 26.
Compton, Hon. and Rev. Henry (1632-1713): b. Compton Wyniates, Warwick, 1632; d. Fulham, 7 July, 1713; bur. Fulham. Cornet in Guards. M.A. Camb., 1661; and Oxon, 1666; D.D., 1669; ordained, 1662. Bishop of Oxford, 1674; of London, 1675. Friend of Eay, &c. Introduced many exotics, Loudon, 'Arboretum,' 50. Pult. ii. 105, 302; Pritz. 67; 'Life,' 1713; F. L. Colvile, 'Worthies of Warwickshire '; Phil. Trans, xlvii. 241; Cott. Gard. iv. 183; vii. 171; Wood, Athen. Ox. iv. 514; Fasti, ii. 293; Dict. Nat. Biog. xi. 443. Portr. mezz. by Is. Beckett, after J. Riley; by J. Simon, after Hargrave, 1710; and engr. by D. Loggan, 1679 Comptonia Brongn. = Comptonites Nilss.? Comptonia Banks MS., Gärtn.
Conway, Charles (fl. 1836). List of Monmouth plants in N. B. G. 629. R. S. C. ii. 38; Top. Bot. 542.
Cook, James (1728-79): b. Marton, Yorkshire, 27 Oct., 1728; murdered Hawaii, 14 Feb., 1779. Circumnavigator. First voyage, with Banks and Solander, 1768-71; second, with J. R. and G. Forster, 1772-75; third, 1776-79. Pritz. 68; Jacks. 534; Comp, Bot, Mag. ii. 233; Dict. Nat. Biog. xii.
