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However, in spite of its difFuseness, we have dipped into this volume — 

 it is not the kind of book which one can read straight through — with 

 <leep interest. To readers of the Irish Naturalist, the part of Babingto^s 

 Journal which will arouse most attention is the brief notes in which he 

 records his several visits to Ireland. The first of these took place in 1835, 

 when he was 27 years of age, and his first excursion was to Killiney Hill in 

 company with J. T. Macka}'. Thence he went to Lough Derg and 

 Connemara, where he found the garlic which his friend Borrer named 

 in his honour .-^//z/^w Babingtonii, and he travelled z'/a Limerick to Killarney 

 and Cork. He visited Ireland again in the following year, botanizing 

 in Wicklow, Maj^o, and Galway. A third visit to the West was made in 

 1840, his route extending from Westport to Londonderry. In 1841 he 

 landed at Cork, and spent three weeks in the South-west. Two years 

 later the British Association met at Cork. Babington attended the 

 meeting, and subsequently spent three weeks in the counties of Cork 

 and Kerry. He was again in Ireland in 1852, when the British Associa- 

 tion met at Belfast, and with Newbould spent ten days in botanizing 

 round the coast of Antrim. In 1858 we find him at Waterford, Killarney^ 

 Dublin, and Drogheda. His last visit to Ireland was in 1873, when a 

 week was spent in Dublin, and three weeks at Roundstone, much time 

 ibeing devoted to visiting schools and churches. These portions of the 

 Journal are full of notes of plants, and impressions of Irish botany, and 

 form interesting reading to the local naturalist. 



The Letters are, like the Journal, crowded with references to critical 

 plants, and wnth discussions on them. Among them we note many 

 .addressed to A. G, More, who was a very old friend and correspondent 

 of Babington's. 



The two indexes are lengthy, yet on looking under " Ireland " and 

 ■" Connemara " we find no reference to his visits to this countr}', nor on 

 trying under " More " are we directed where to turn in order to consult 

 the letters w^ritten to that botanist. These things have to be picked out 

 of the body of the book. 



R. Ivi.. P. 



OBITUARY, 



DR. G. M. O'CONNOR. 



We have to record the death of Dr. G. M. O'Connor, of Ballycastle, 

 Co. Antrim, which took place on November 20th. Dr. O'Connor was a 

 man of genial and energetic mind, and having a strong taste for natural 

 history, he proved an invaluable ally to naturalists who visited the 

 interesting district of North Antrim. He had a good knowledge of the 

 local flora, and his garden was well known to most of the horticultural 

 members of our Field Clubs. 



