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William Vernon (1666/7 - c.1715?)

Botanist, traveler, and plant collector, travelling with David Kreig (c. 1670-1710) to Maryland in 1698 (Quattrocchi, 2788-9). Probably the "Mr. Vernon" named by Jezreel Jones in connection with a exploratory trip to the Canary Islands. James Petiver identifies him in 1699 as Fellow of Peterhouse in Cambridge (Centuria, 54). Other Links: https://islandbiodiversity.com/petalumni.htm - Botanist
 Relevant locations: Member of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
Visited Maryland, United States
 Relationships: William Vernon was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Jezreel Jones (-d. 1731)
William Vernon was a member of Royal Society (-)

John Scampton (-fl. c. 1699) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of William Vernon
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology.
as Mentions or references - John Scampton (fl. 1696).
as Mentions or references - Musei Petiveriani centuria prima [-decima], rariora naturæ continens: viz. animalia, fossilia, plantas, ex variis mundi plagis advecta, ordine digesta, et nominibus propriis signata. A Jacobo Petiver.
 References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * A. 89. Muscus trichoides minor pileis magnis acutis. The Extinguisher=moss. First observed by Mr. Tho. Pool, a diligent enquirer into Natural History, about Nottingham, since which, Mr. William Vernon (who hath been very curious in the discovery of this minute Tribe of Plants) tells me he hath found it in Essex.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) A. 304. Papilio Leucomelanus subtùs viridescens marmoreus. The greenish marbled half=Mourner. The only one I have seen in England, Mr. Will. Vernon caught in Cambridgeshire. Mr. Jezreel Jones, F. R. S. has observed the same about Lisbon.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) A. 324. Papilio Fritillarius minor. Mr. Vernon's small Fritillary. Observed first by him in Cambridgeshire, and since that in Hornsey-Wood near London, by Mr. Handley.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 382. Corallina capillacea non geniculata spermophoros. This Mr. Will. Vernon some time since gave me.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 566. Milium Marianum locustis Avenaceis purpureis, staminulis luteis. This Mr. William Vernon Fellow of Peter-House in Cambridge brought me from Maryland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 694. Verbenaca Mariana Rosæ Chinensis folio, seminibus deorsum tendentibus. The only specimen I ever saw of this Plant, Mr. Charles Du-Bois was pleased to give me, collected by Mr. Will. Vernon in Maryland.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 7. Papilio Leucomelanus CANTABRIGIENSIS. nobis. Papilio Leucomelanus subtus viridescens matmoreus Mus. Petiver. 304. Vernon's half-Mourner. I know not of any that hath met with this in ENGLAND, but Mr. Vernon about Cambridge, and there very rare.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) A. 10. Phalæna nigrescens maculis minoribus, subtus sanguinea. The Scarlet Royal Leopard. I am oblig’d to Mr Antrobus for this beautiful Insect, and remember to have see it with Mr Vernon.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 1. ENGLISH Animals, Vegetables, Fossils, &c. 1 HArwich Harwich ThornFish Gaz Nat. & Art. Tab 22. Fig 2. 2 Broad Earth Scoiopendria G. N. Tab. 15. f. 10. 3 Bakers Pond Squill GAZ. NAT. & ART. 21. 7. 4 Pea Urchin-Egg 31. 10. 5 Warry Pensans Sea-Star 16. 6. 6 Lhwyd's small Donegal Sea-star 16. 18. 7 Small, whire tipt Butterfly 49. xi. 8 Vernons Cambridge half Mourner 1. 7. 9 Saffron Butterfly with spotted Tips 14. xi. 10 Blue Argus 35. 1. 11 Paple blue Argus 35. 2. 12 Mixt Argus 35. 3. 13 Brown edged Argus 35. 4. 14 Under speckled Livonian Argus 32. 6. 15 Holly under green. Butterfly 2. xi. 16 Hair streak Butterfly xi. 9. 17 Brown double streak Butterfly xi. 10. 18 Golden, brown, double streak Butterfly xi. xi. 19 Checkered Hog Butterfly 34. 7. 20 Checker-like Hog Butterfly 34. 8. 21 Streakt Golden Hog Butterfly 34. 9. 22 Handleys brown Hog Butterfly 36. 3. 23 Dandridge's Marsh Frittilary 36. 3. 24 Our Marsh Frittilary 36. 6. 25 Cambridge small Frittillary 16. 10. 26 Lincolnshire Fritillary 18. 10. F 27 Tun