ipfo- Samuel Alexander Steivart. 207 



carelCvSsness about food, may have been accountable for the 

 rheumatism from which he suffered in later years. 



In 1888 Stewart's crowning work, the Flora of the North- 

 east oj Ireland, was published. Although Corry's name ap- 

 pears on the title page, the work was almost entirely Stewart's, 

 his colleague having been drowned in a lamentable boating 

 accident on Lough Gill in 1883, a few years after collaboration 

 had been agreed upon. The Flora represents thirty years of 

 field-work b)^ Stewart over three counties — work carried out 

 in the brief intervals of business, at a time when trains were 

 few and slow, and the bicycle still unknown as a scientific 

 accessory ; and its fullness, accuracy and scholarly style 

 place it high among works of the kind. 



Two years later, in 1893, Stewart undertook in conjunction 

 with the present writer his last heavy piece of work — the 

 •systematic exploration of the Mourne Mountains. Two sea- 

 sons were spent in thoroughly searching this range for plants, 

 with good results ; and the writer will always rank as a great 

 privilege his companionship with Stewart during the many 

 long daj'S spent at that time among the mountains. By the 

 time the report on this work was published, Stewart was 

 sixty-five, and henceforth he confined himself to less arduous 

 excursions. But until well past seventy he was still able to 

 get out into the fields and hills he loved so well, and his latest 

 w^alks were to the well-known places where he had, under Tate 

 and Jukes, done his earliest field-work — Crow Glen, the Lagan 

 and the People's Park. Until the end he was still ever ready 

 with assistance and advice, and remained a final court of 

 appeal for Belfast naturalists, not only on botanical subjects, 

 but on many problems of geology and zoology besides. 



Our portrait was taken in 1881. when Stewart was fifty-five 

 3'ears of age, and in the midst of his field-work. 



R. Lloyd Prakger. 



A lylvST OF THE WRITJNGvS OF S. A. STEWART. 

 Compiled by R. Li^oyd Praeger. 



BOTANY. 



On the occurrence of some rare andhttle known Plants in the Belfast 

 district [title only]. B.N.F.C. : Report of Committee for 1863-4, 12. 1865. 



[Rare or overlooked plants in the neighbourhood of Belfast.] B.N.F.C, 

 Annual Report for 1865-66. 1S66. 



