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Clendon, James Reddy 1801-1872; in 1830 he visited the Bay of Islands in the City of Edinburgh, bought land from Pomare at Okiato, a few miles south of Kororareka, and settled there in 1832.Coates, Dandeson, d.1846, secretary CMS London: Christianity the means of civilisation, 1837. Codrington lens: mistake for “Coddington lens”, made of a single lens with a grooved diaphragm around the circumference which allows for sharp images at higher magnification. Henry Coddington 1798-1845, mathematician and clergyman. Cole, Rev. RR, Colonial Chaplain, Wellington, 1841-1853. Cook, formerly in the employ of the Mission, lived at Ratoreka Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt 1825-1914: Handbook of British fungi, 1871; Handbook of British Hepaticæ, 1907. Couch, Jonathan: Fishes of the British Isles, 1862. Crawfurd, John 1783-1863. Scots physician and colonial administrator; second Resident of Singapore: Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, 1852. Crozet, Julien Marie 1728-1780: Voyage to Tasmania, N.Z. …, 1891. Cunningham, Allan 1791-1839, Government Botanist for New South Wales, visited NZ twice, the second time spending 3 months with Colenso: Floræ Insularum Novæ Zelandiæ Precursor, published piecemeal between 1837 and 1840. Cunningham, Richard 1793-1835, Colonial Botanist NSW, brother of Allan C, in NZ 1833-1834, discovered Winika (Dendrobium) cunninghamii. Curnow, William 1809-1867, Penzance market-gardener and cryptogamist. Currey, Frederick 1819-1891, mycologist, secretary for botany at the Linnaean Society. Cuvier, Baron Georges 1769-1832, naturalist: Le Règne Animal distribué d’après son organisation, 1817. De Candolle, Augustin Pyrame 1778-1841, Swiss botanist: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 1824, completed by his son Alphonse. Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-1882, English naturalist and father of evolutionary theory. Davies, Owen: unknown; perhaps the Welshman Owen Davis, master mariner of Pupuke and later Whangaroa. Davis, Rev. Richard 1790-1863, arrived at the Bay of Islands in 1824, and moved to Waimate in 1831. He was the grandfather of RH Matthews. Day, Dr Richard, MD 1834, Public Vaccinator Auckland 1869, known as “Rata Rei”.De Lise, DF: Histoire des lichens. Genre Sticta, 1825.Derby, Lord: Edward Smith-Stanley 1775-1851, 13th Earl of Derby, English politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist.Dieffenbach, Johann Karl Ernst 1811-1855, Swiss physician came with NZ Company in 1839, first trained scientist to work in New Zealand.Domett, Alfred 1811-1887, Colonial Secretary, later Premier, poet.Don, George 1798-1856, Scots botanist: A General System of Gardening and Botany, four volumes, 1832-1838.Duncan, J, farmed Hiwera station at Matuku.D’Urville, Jules Sébastien César Dumont 1790-1842, French naval officer and explorer: Voyage au Pole Sud..., 1842-1846.Eccles, Dr Alfred 1821-1904, Dunedin surgeon, involved in the origins of the Otago Medical School, the Otago Institute, and of the first New Zealand Exhibition.Eccles, John Charles, Woodville clergyman, a beneficiary in Colenso’s will.Edgerley, John, botanist who collected in the Hokianga region from about 1835.Ekart, TP 1799-1877, Swiss collector of cryptogams, contributed to Synopsis Hepaticarum, 1844-1847.Endlicher, Stephan Ladislaus 1804-1849: Genera Plantarum, 1836-50; co-authored, with F Bauer: Prodromus floræ Norfolkicæ…, 1833.Enys, John Davies 1837-1912, Christchurch naturalist, Castle Hill, cousin of JB Acland.Evans, Alexander William 1868-1959, US botanist, lichenologist, author of many publications on Hepaticæ.Fairburn, William Thomas established the Church Missionary Society mission at Maraetai in 1837. Colenso and Fairburn’s daughter Elizabeth married in 1843.Fereday, Richard William 1820?-1899, Christchurch lawyer and entomologist.Fitch, Walter Hood 1817-1892, botanical artist at Kew.Fitzgerald, James Edward 1818-1896, Canterbury Provincial Superintendent 1853-1857.Fitzroy, Robert 1805–65, Commander of HMS Baegle, Colonial Governor of New Zealand 1843-5.Ford, Edward Onslow 1852-1901, English sculptor. Forster, Johann Reinold 1729-1798, naturalist on Cook’s Resolution, wrote (with son Georg) Characteres Generum Plantarum, 1776. Forster, Johann Georg Adam 1754-1794, accompanied his father to NZ: wrote Floræ Insularum Australium Prodromus, 1786. Fox, Sir William 1812-1893, NZ Premier, painter. Franklin, Lady Jane, visited New Zealand in 1841; a remarkable woman in an age when the wives of governors were not expected to play an active role in the running of a colony. Franklin, Sir John 1786-1847, British naval officer and explorer, for a time Governor of Tasmania, died while exploring the NW Passage. Freeman, Archdeacon, creationist, Darwinism opposer, who preached that cherubim were the types from which animals were made. Fries, Elias Magnus 1794-1878, Swedish mycologist and botanist: Systema mycologicum, 1822. Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794, English historian: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788. Gillies, Judge Thomas Bannatyne 1828-1889, NZ Attorney-General 1860-65, conchologist. |