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Hart's keen eye was well shown when he found the rare 

 R Kbits Chammiionis after it had been lost for sixt^'-six years. 

 Though not the originator of the search expedition, it was he 

 who re-discovered the plant. There were two mountains 

 separated by a shallow valley. He took one and I took the 

 other. Both of us had almost reached the respective summits, 

 when my friend waved his hand and shouted. When I joined 

 my companion, he said, '' It is within a circle of thirty yards 

 from where I stand." Notwithstanding the small area to be 

 examined, the plant was not detected by me for nearly ten 

 minutes. 



The botany of the British Polar Expedition, 1875-6, and 

 three reports on the Flora of Palestine were, apart from his 

 work in Ireland, Harf s chief contributions to botanical litera- 

 ture. His " Flora of Howth " and " Flora of Donegal " were 

 published in book form. Eight reports and papers on Irish 

 botany appear in the Procecdmgs of the Roj^al Irish Academy, 

 1881 to 1890. What I believe to be a complete bibliograph}^ of 

 his papers, &c., 45 in number, relating to the Irish Flora up to 

 1901 is given in Praeger's "Irish Topographical Botany." 



Though botany unquestionably occupied the first place in 

 Hart's wTitings, birds, mammals and shells, were alwaj's studied 

 with interest. From 1878 to 1898, many notes appear in the 

 Zoologist and a few in the Irish Nahiralist. In 1888 he wrote 

 a book on the animals of the Bible. Latterly he had been 

 assisting the Rev. W. C. Piercy in compiling Murray's Bible 

 Dictionary. 



In recent 3^ears purel}' literary work engrossed mOvSt of his 

 attention. He edited " Othello," " Love's Labour's Lost," 

 " Measure for Measure," and the " Merr,v Wives of Windsor " 

 for the " Arden " Shakspeare, and Ben Jonson's Works for 

 the " Standard Librar}^" his knowledge of Elizabethan 

 literature being remarkably wide and wonderfuU}' minute. 

 Having no regular occupation, he w^as enabled to pursue his 

 studies without the hampering ties of business, of professional 

 life, or of official routine. Exploration in one form or another 

 was most attractive to him, since the physical side of it was 

 especially congenial to his athletic nature. Every expedition 

 was discussed and thrashed out beforehand with his life-long 

 friend, the late A. G. More — the central figure in Irish 

 natural history for over thirty years — on whose co-operation 



