CURREY

Frederick ( son of Benjamin Currey, clerk of the Parliaments ). b. Norwood, Surrey 19 Aug. 1819; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; F.L.S., sec. 1860–80, vice pres. and treasurer 1880 to death; F.R.S. 3 June 1858, member of council; his collection of fungi is now in the Kew Herbarium, the genus of fungi, Curreya, was founded by Saccardo as a momento of Currey; edited The natural history review 1861 etc. ; translated Hofmeister’s On the germination of the higher Cryptogam i a 1862; edited C. D. Badham’s Esculent funguses 1863. d. 2 Vanbrugh park road, Black heath 8 Sep. 1881. Journal of botany n.s. x , 310–12 (1881).