possibly identical to William Purkiss (1824-1xxx): www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-purkiss_28061981
or w. William Purkiss (1806-1xxx): www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-purkiss_202732878
England, UK
John Henry Leech (1862-1900); Edward Whymper (1840-1911); Alfred P. Maudslay & F. Ducane Godman: Biologia Centrali-Americana 1889-1902; archeol.W.Reiss & vulcanol. A.Stübel: Necropolis Ancon Peru 1880-7; George French Angas: Lepidoptera Dominica 1884; Henry Nottidge Moseley (1844-1891); O. Salvin ; Herbert Druce (1846-1913) & Walsingham,
Thomas de Grey (1843-1919) ;