1923. Joseph Wright. 5^ 



laborious work in conjunction with Mellard Reade on Post- 

 glacial beds round Liverpool, and from Canada and other 

 distant places clays and sands arrived for his examination. 



Joseph Wright was one of the most generous and helpful 

 of men. No request for information or assistance was ever 

 made to him in vain. He loved to show and demonstrate 

 slides from his great collection to the beginner as well as to 

 the expert ; and many people, including the writer, owed 

 their ii st glimpse of the beauty and interest of the Micro zoa 

 to him. He was an invaluable member of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, and contributed much to their 

 Proceedings. The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, and the Liverpool Geological Society, elected him to 

 honorary membership, and the Geological Society of London 

 made him, in 1896, the award of the Barlow- Jameson 

 fund. To the present generation of naturalists he was 

 almost unknown, though his name was known and honoured ; 

 those who still remain who were privileged to work with him 

 mourn a sincere friend, a delightful companion, and a true 

 naturalist. 



R. Ll. p. 



CANON LETT'S IRISH SPHAGNA. 



Determined by J. A. Wheldon. 



The herbarium of the late Canon Lett was acquired 

 by the Botanical Division of the Dublin National Museum. 

 It is especially rich in Mosses and Liverworts. The Museum 

 is indebted to Dr. J. A. Wheldon for a critical revision of 

 the peat-mosses in the collection, in accordance with 

 Warnstorf's fine monograph of Sphagnum. Dr. W. A. 

 Lee has already pointed out the desirability of a revised 

 record of Irish Sphagna and in the Irish Naturalist for 

 February, 1922, p. 18, and for March, 1923, p. 28, has given 

 two useful hsts. The following is a catalogue of the Irish 

 Sphagna in the Lett herbarium, based on Dr. Wheldon's 

 examination and not recorded in Dr. Lee's lists. 



T. Johnson. 



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