829-1904), K.C.B., Clerk of the
House of Commons. Author of "Oliver Cromwell the Protector,"
etc.--["Who's Who."]

_me si son_, Sir Joseph Dalton HOOKER, F.R.S. (q.v.).

Lawrence #PARSONS# (b. 1840), fourth Earl of ROSSE, D.C.L., LL.D.,
Camb. and Dublin, F.R.S.; Chancellor of University of Dublin;
author of "Memoirs of Heat of Moon and Stars" (based on
experiments with the famous reflecting telescope made by his
father), and on other subjects.--["Who's Who."]

_fa_, William PARSONS (1800-1867), third Earl of ROSSE, Pres. R.S.;
constructor of the great reflecting telescope at Parsonstown, and
first discoverer by its means of nebulae and other celestial
phenomena.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_bro_, Charles Algernon PARSONS (b. 1854), D.Sc., F.R.S.; notable
in the development of turbine navigation; proprietor and director of
electrical and engineering works.

William Matthew Flinders #PETRIE# (b. 1853), D.C.L., Lit.D., LL.D.,
Ph.D., F.R.S.; Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University Coll.,
London, since 1892. Principal discoveries: Greek settlements at
Naucratis and Daphnae; prehistoric Egyptian at Koptos and Naqada;
inscription of Israelite War at Thebes; Kings of the earliest
dynasties at Abydos; has published much on these
subjects.--["Who's Who," and "Ency. Brit."]

_fa fa fa_, Martin PETRIE, Commissary-General; good administrator.

_fa fa_, William PETRIE, Commissary-General.

_me fa_, Matthew FLINDERS (1774-1813), naval captain; assisted George
Bass to survey the coast of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land,
1795-1800; in command of the "Investigator," and afterwards of the
"Porpoise" and "Cumberland"; made the first survey of a large part of
the Australian coast, 1801-1803.--["Dict. N. Biog."]

_fa_, William PETRIE, civil engineer; first exhibitor of electric
light on a large scale, 1848; inventor of various apparatus for that
and chemical industries.

_me_, Ann FLINDERS PETRIE, writer of some books and articles
popularizing mineralogy, about 1840; learned both Hebrew and Greek
without a teacher.

Percival Spencer Umfreville #PICKERING# (b. 1858), F.R.S., director
of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm; investigator in chemical
physics; editor of "Memoirs of Anna Maria Pickering," and author
of 150 papers on chemical and physical subjects.--["Who's Who."]

_me fa_, John Spencer STANHOPE, F.R.S., and Membre de l'Institut at
twenty-eight years