22 The Irish Naturalist. February, 
of the rare trees still in existence. While one of the plants, 
the AcoYUS Calamus or Sweet-scented Flag, which had 
been planted in Sir Arthur's ponds has disappeared, together 
with the ponds, it has taken up its abode in the long 
level of the Ulster Canal, between Moira and Blaris, as 
our local botanists well know. Sir Arthur is quite forgotten 
at Moira, not a trace of his mansion remains, while of his 
beautiful gardens the only thing left now are the depressions 
where formerly were the ponds and canals. 
As a further proof of Sir Arthur having been a botanist, 
I may mention, that William Sherrard, who died in 1728, 
visited Sir Arthur Rawdon at Moira, from which he ex- 
plored the Mourne Mountains, and the shores of Lough 
Neagh. 
John Templcton was born in Belfast in 1766, where he 
died and was buried in 1825. In any notice of North 
of Ireland botanists a prominent place must be assigned 
to his name and work. His life was short, but strenuous. 
He lived in an age when the study of botany was making 
progress in Great Britain, and in the investigation of the 
plants of Ireland he gave much assistance to several British 
authors in whose works it is duly acknowledged, but he 
himself published very little. 
However, he had intended to publish a " Flora Hi- 
bernica " and he had the work well in hand. The manu- 
script and drawings for this are still in existence, and are 
evidence of his painstaking researches and industry. He 
aimed to make his work as perfect as was possible, and 
when some of his friends urged him to complete and publish 
his "Flora" it was his diffidence that held him back. 
The authors whom Templeton helped by sending them 
specimens, were : — Sir James Edward Smith in " English 
Botany" and "Flora Britannica," Louis Weston Dillwjm 
in " British Confervae," Dawson Turner in " British Fuci " 
and " Muscologia Hibernica," Dubourdieu's " Histories of 
Antrim and Down," and Sampson's " History of London- 
derry." 
The MSS. left by Templeton consist of seven volumes. 
One of these is a small 8vo. half bound ; it is in the Library 
of the Royal Irish Academy, and contains 280 pp. of lists 
