The Digital Ark :: John Stocker

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

John Stocker ( - fl. c. 1699)

Relevant locations: Visited Bay of Bengal, India
Visited Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
References in Documents:

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 25. Mr. STOCKER. This kind Person (and altogether a Stranger) was pleased to bring me a Collection of Shells, which he had pickt up in the Bay of Bengale, amongst them there were some very Curious.

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 1. INIn her Grace the DUCHESS of BEAUFORT's most Noble Garden and Matchless Stoves at Badmington in Gloucestershire, I the last Summer met with many New Rare and very curious Plants, most of them raised to that Perfection I never saw before. 2. From Mr. JACOB BOBART, Botanick Professor of the Physick Garden at Oxford, I have at times received several curious Plants raised in that Garden under his Care. 3. Dr. JOANNES PHILIPPUS BREYNIUS (Son of JACOBUS BREYNIUS that late Celebrated Botanist) hath been pleased to give me several uncommon Plants, which he had collected the last Summer out of the most Curious Gardens in Holland, and he promised me greater Favours at his return to Dantzick. 4. Mr. EDMUND BOHUN hath again been pleas'd generously to present me with great variety of Insects and several Books of Plants, which he collected in Carolina. 5. I am much obliged to Mr. EDWARD BULKLEY at Fort St. George for several curious Plants, Shells, Insects, &c. which, since Mr. SAMUEL BROWNE's Death, he hath been pleased frequently to procure me, which I intend to give some Account of, with what else he shall particularly favour me with. 6. The Reverend Father GEORGE JOSEPH CAMEL hath again been pleased to Favour Mr. RAY and me with the accurate Descriptions and Designs of several new Plants he hath observed to grow in the Phillippine Isles. I have also lately received divers Insects from him, and other Curiosities which shall suddenly be Figured and Described. 7. Mr. MATTHEW COLVILL, Surgeon, gave me a Collection of such Shells he found on Pulo Verara, an Island near Malacca. 8. Mr. JAMES CUNINGHAME. To this Curious Person I am beyond expression obliged, not only for what he has formerly done, but also lately performed, viz. in his last Voyage to China he sent me Collections from the Cape of Good Hope, as also from Combuys near Java, and the Crocodile Isles, and twice from the Islands of Chusan, from whence I have received near two hundred several Plants, most of them altogether New, to these he has added such Insects, Shells, &c. as he met with; some of which are already Figured in the First and Second Decade of my Gazophylacium Nature & Artis, and others you may expect in my Third, &c. 9. To Mr. FIFIELD, Surgeon, I am obliged for some Shells and Plants he gathered in the Bay of Campeachy, and particularly for some Sprigs of the Logwood, which I never saw in England before. 10. Madam ELIZABETH GLANVILE. To this Curious Gentlewoman I am obliged for an hundred Insects lately sent me (besides others she gave me before) which she had observed in the West of England, several of them being altogether new to me. 11. Dr 11. Dr. CHARLES GOODALL, Physician to the Charter-house and one of the College, observed this last Autumn, near Tunbridge-Wells, several Curious Mushrooms which he was pleased to give me. 12. Mr. CLAUDIUS HAMILTON, Surgeon, was pleased some time since to give me a Book of Plants he had collected in Barbadoes, with his Observations on them. 13. From Mr. JAMES HAMILTON, Surgeon in Edinburgh, I have received several Curiosities. 14. To Dr. DAVID KRIEG, F. R. S. I am obliged for some Curiosities he sent me from Riga in Livonia; whilst that City was besieged, and for others since from Paris. 15. The Reverend Dr. LEWIS hath been pleased to favour me lately with some Shells, &c. part of which you may see in the Philosophical Transactions, No 282. and others are Figured in the second and third Decades of my Gazophylacick Tables. 16. In his Lordship the BISHOP of LONDON's Curious Gardens at Fulham, I yearly see many Rare Plants, and several of them not to be met with in any other Garden in England. 17. Dr. NISSOLE, a Physician and very Curious Botanist at Monpelier, has been pleased to send me a Collection, finely preserved, of such Rare Plants as I desired, growing thereabouts 18. My kind Friend Mr. RICHARD PLANER, Surgeon, hath again brought me several Plants and Insects from the Coasts of Guinea, not yet taken notice of, some of which I shall suddenly figure. 19. Mr. RANCE, Surgeon, was generally pleased to give me a Collection of such Shells, &c. he found in the Island of Borneo. 20. To Dr. RICHARD RICHARDSON, a Curious Naturally and Physician, I am indebted for many Rare Plants, Fossils, &c. which he hath observed in the North of England. 21. I have again from Dr. FREDERICK RUYSCH Anatomick and Botanick Professor in Amsterdam, received several Cape-Plants and Foreign Insects. 22. I am obliged to that Accurate Botanist Dr. WILLIAM SHERARD, for divers Specimens of Plants, several of which I had not before. 23. Mr. JAMES SKEEN, Surgeon, was pleased to present me with three of four Books of Plants, with such Shells and Insects as he and Mr. WATT, Surgeon, deceased, had observed at Cape tres Puntas and Wida on the Coast of Guinea. 24. Mr. JOHN STAREMBURGH. From this Gentleman I have received many Curious Cape-Plants very treatly dried, as also some Insects, which are figured in my first and second Decades, and I am daily in expectation of the arrival of many more Curiosites from him. 25. Mr. JOHN STOCKER hath again been pleased to bring me some Shells and Insects, which he hath met with in another East-Indies Voyage. 26. From Mr. JAMES SUTHERLAND, Superintendant of the Physick Garden at Edinburgh, I have received several uncommon Northern Plants, which he had gathered wild in Scotland. 27. I am again charged to that Celebrated Botanist Dr. PITTON TOURNEFORT, Physician, one of the Royal, Academy of Sciences, and Botanick Professor of the Royal Garden at PARIS, for not only his Institutions, Rei Herbariæ, but also for many Curious Plants, several of which he gathererd himself in and . 28. To Mons. VAILLANT (Secretary to Dr. FAGON, Chief Physician to the King of FRANCE) I am indebted for several uncommon Plants, growing about Paris and elsewhere, very curiously preserved. 29. To 29. To that Curious Preserver of all Natural and Artificial Rarities Myn Heer LEVINUS VINCENT at Amsterdam, I am very much obliged for divers admirable Insects he hath lately sent me. 30. Mr. THOMAS WALNER. This Generous Gentleman, at the desire of my kind Friend Mr. ROBERT ELLIS, hath lately sent me Specimens of the Brasiletto Wood, and some other Trees and Plants from New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands: for which I am extreamly obliged to him, and for his kind Promises of greater Performances, by the next and all Opportunities. 31. Madam WILLIAMS. This Gentlewoman, tho altogether a Stranger, was to kind as to send me several Curious Insects, especially Burterflies, which she had observed about her Residence in Carolina. These my hearty Friend Major WILLIAM HALSTEAD brought me with several Curiosities of his own collecting, as Plants, Shells &c. 32. A certain Curious , whose Name at present I am obliged to conceal, hath sent me, from Carolina, several Plants of that Country with his Remark on them.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 10. Cochlea BENGALENSIS ore lacerato. an Cochlea compressa variegata, lateribus acutis, senis minimum dentibus donata List. H. C. L. 4. S. 5. Fig. 31. Tab. 577? Mr. Stocker found this Shell in the Bay of Bengale.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 4. Trochus INDICUS è rubro & pallido radiatus, Brought me by Mr. John Stocker from the Bay of Bengale.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 8. Carabus BENGALENSIS è cupreo virescens. Given me by Mr. John Stocker.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 12. Stockerus BENGALENSIS viridis nigro maculatus. This is a new Genus of the Beetle kind, the Vagina not being split but intire, from under which it expands its membranaceous wings, as the Figure expresses, which is its Flying posture. Mr John Stocker, my Curious Friend, being the first that shewed me this Species, I have chose to distinguish it from other kinds by his name.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 11. Cape Lattice-shell, Cat. 412. It's somewhat oval or checkered, Mr. Perry and Mr. Stocker have brought me this from the Cape.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) ASIATICK Shells. 286 Luzon black girdled Snail Shell 32. 2. 287 Grey’s Madrass Sawcer Shell 1. 6. 288 Topsy-turvy Snail Shell 20. 9. 289 Stocker’s Bengale ragged Mouth 4. 10. 290 Small Persian Olive-Whelk 17. 4. 291 Grey’s Indian Pot-belly xi. 6. 292 Perry’s Indian Pap Shell 3. xi. 293 Indian Ear shell not perforated 12. 4. 294 Venus Bugle 14. 10. 295 Bengale Bugle 20. 4. 296 Saffron ring'd white Cowry 6. 8. 297 Buff Leopard Cowry 8. 3. 298 Newt-bellied Cowry 5. 1. 299 Newtakin Cowry 12. 7. 300 Argus Cowry 9. 7. 301 Small notch-bellyed blewish Cowry 30. 3. 302. Small flat bellyed blewish Cowry 30. 9. F 3 303 Saf