Colenso’s collections
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Names mentioned in the letters, lists and labels Acharius, Erik 1757-1819, the “father of lichenology”: Synopsis methodica Lichenum 1814. Acland, John Barton Arundel 1824-1904, barrister, sheepfarmer (Mt Peel station), politician (South Canterbury rep. in House of Representatives). Alexander, Alexander, ran trading store at Onepoto in 1846, later partner with the first grog seller, later farmed among his wife’s people, the Ngati Hinepare at Wharerangi. Colenso’s close friend in the 1840s. Andrews, EW: see “collectors” (below). Ashwell, Rev. Benjamin Yate; came to Paihia in 1835, and eventually established the Kaitotehe Mission station at the Taupiri bend on the Waikato River. Babington, Charles Cardale 1808-1895, English botanist: Manual of British Botany, 1843. Backhouse, James 1794-1869, naturalist and Quaker missionary, in Australia 1832-1838. Baker, Charles b.1803, came to Paihia in 1828, and was the first missionary to reside in Uawa (Tolaga Bay) – from 1843. Baker, John Gilbert 1834-1920, keeper of the Herbarium at Kew: Synopsis Filicum: a synopsis of all known ferns, 1865. Baker, Horace: see “collectors” (below). Balfour, David Paton: see “collectors” (below). Banks, Sir Joseph 1743-1820, English naturalist, botanist and science patron, on Cook’s first voyage (1768–1771); around 80 species of plants bear Banks’s name. Bartling, Friedrich Gottlieb 1798–1875, South African plant collector. Barton, Billy: had a sheep station at White Rock, Whawhanui, on the Wairarapa coast, where the Kurawhawhanui stream reaches the sea. Bastian, Adolf 1826-1905, German anthropologist: Die heilige Sage der Polynesier, Leipzig, 1881. Beddowes, Colonel; collector of ferns: Ferns of southern India. Bell, Sir Francis Dillon 1822-1898; involved in Māori land purchases, MP and advisor to Governor Browne. Bentham, George 1880-1884, English, “the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century”: Handbook of the British flora, 1878; Flora Australiensis, 1864.Berkeley, Miles Joseph 1803-1889, wrote the section on fungi in WJ Hooker’s The English Flora, 1836.Besant, Sir Walter 1836-1901, British novelist and historian: Captain Cook. English Men of Action. 1890. Bidwill, Charles Robert 1820-1884, pioneer Wairarapa sheepfarmer, brother of John Carne Bidwill.Bidwill, John Carne 1815-1853, explorer and plant collector who visited New Zealand in the 1830s and 40s, brother of Charles Robert: Rambles in New Zealand, 1841. de la Billardiere, Jacques-Julien Houtou 1755-1834, French naturalist, accompanied d’Entrecasteaux. Binsfield, Fr JN, priest in Canterbury till 1887, member of the Canterbury Institute, travelled abroad 1887; may have returned to Napier. Boott, Francis 1792-1863: American physician & botanist, lived in Britain after 1820: Illustrations of the genus Carex, 1858-1860. van den Bosch, Roelof Benjamin 1810-1862: Hymenophyllaceæ Javanicæ, 1861. Bridel-Brideri, Samuel Elysée 1761-1828, Swiss bryologist: Bryologia universa..., 1826. Brotherus, Viktor Ferdinand 1849-1929, Finnish botanist who studied mosses. Brown, Robert 1773-1858, pioneer botanist in Australia: Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et Insulæ Van Diemen, 1810. Brown, Thomas: The elements of conchology; or natural history of shells: according to the Linnean system, with observations on modern arrangements, 1816. Brown, Captain, read papers on Coleoptera at the Auckland Institute in 1875 and 1877. Browne, Octavius 1809-1876, Melbourne merchant. Browning, John 1835-1925, London instrument maker and oculist. Buchanan, John 1819-1898, celebrated surveyor, explorer, artist and naturalist in NZ. Buller, James; in 1839 became the permanent Wesleyan minister at the Mission station on the Wairoa River, between Dargaville and Whangarei. Father of WL Buller. Buller, Sir Walter Lawry 1838-1906; son of James Buller: A history of the birds of New Zealand, 1872-73. Burnett, Hubert (or Herbert), barrister, Mayor of Woodville from 1892; attended Colenso after his accident and wrote to RC Harding about it. Busby, James 1801–71, British Resident and early settler. Campbell, R. & Co. Shipping agents in Sydney. Cargill, William 1784-1860, Otago coloniser.Carpenter, Dr William B 1813-1885, physiologist, geologist, physician and microscopist: The microscope and its revelations, 1856.de Cassini, Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel 1781-1832, French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in Asteraceae.Chambers, William Knox: see “collectors” (below).Cheeseman, Thomas Frederic 1845-1923, celebrated NZ botanist and Museum Director.Christy, Henry 1810-1865, English ethnologist, associated with the discovery of CroMagnon man.Clarke, Charles Baron 1832-1906, plant collector in the Indian subcontinent. |