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Parks, John Damper

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

fl. 1823-1838.

career:

(Sometimes misspelled Parkes). Collected for the Horticultural Society in China and Java, 1823.¹ Afterwards gardener of the Earl of Arran, F.H.S. at Bognor, Sussex.

Collecting localities:

Left London in the ‘Lowther Castle’ in 1823, returning in the same ship in May 1824. On the outward voyage he landed at Anger Point (= Anjer, W. Java) (Aug. 1-3. 1823), gathering some botanical specimens; on the homebound voyage the anchor was cast at North Island in the Straits of Sunda, to take in water (Jan. 24, 1824).

collections:

Sold by the Horticultural Society in 1856, obtained by Bentham; in Herb. Kew [K].² A Journal kept by him from August 1823 to 1824 is in the possession of the Roy. Hort. Society.

literature:

(1) cf. Transact. Hortic. Soc. 5, 1824, p. 427; MS. Journal in the Roy. Hort. Soc.
(2) cf. Journ. Bot. 32, 1894, p. 298-299.
‘A Catalogue of all the valuable collections of dried plants which have been formed by the travellers employed by the Hort. Soc. of Lond. etc. (1856).

biographical data:

Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger in Journ. Bot. 28, 1890, p. 117, and in 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Bretschneider, Hist. Bet. Discov. China .1898, p. 271-274; J. R. Hort. Soc. 80, 1955, p. 270.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Parks, John Damper
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	fl. 1823-1838.
	career: (Sometimes misspelled Parkes). Collected for the Horticultural Society in China and Java, 1823.¹ Afterwards gardener of the Earl of Arran, F.H.S. at Bognor, Sussex.
	Collecting localities: Left London in the ‘Lowther Castle’ in 1823, returning in the same ship in May 1824. On the outward voyage he landed at Anger Point (= Anjer, W. Java) (Aug. 1-3. 1823), gathering some botanical specimens; on the homebound voyage the anchor was cast at North Island in the Straits of Sunda, to take in water (Jan. 24, 1824).
	collections: Sold by the Horticultural Society in 1856, obtained by Bentham; in Herb. Kew [K].² A Journal kept by him from August 1823 to 1824 is in the possession of the Roy. Hort. Society.
	literature: (1) cf. Transact. Hortic. Soc. 5, 1824, p. 427; MS. Journal in the Roy. Hort. Soc. (2) cf. Journ. Bot. 32, 1894, p. 298-299. ‘A Catalogue of all the valuable collections of dried plants which have been formed by the travellers employed by the Hort. Soc. of Lond. etc. (1856).
	biographical data: Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger in Journ. Bot. 28, 1890, p. 117, and in 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Bretschneider, Hist. Bet. Discov. China .1898, p. 271-274; J. R. Hort. Soc. 80, 1955, p. 270.