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1868. He contributed papers on lichens to the Pro- 
ceedings of the Diibhn Natural History Society. His 
large herbarium of Lichens is preserved in the National 
Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin. 
David Orr, engaged in Glasnevin Gardens under Dr. 
Moore, 1854, I'etired 1882, died at Dublin 1892. He had 
resided in Belfast, where he noted many plants, some 
of them very rare mosses, as occurring in the district ; but 
a suspicion of error has fallen upon a portion of his work, 
and deprived it of the value it otherwise would have had. 
" The Flora of the North-east of Ireland," by Samuel 
Alexander Stewart, f.b.s.e., a.l.s., and Thomas Hughes 
Corry, f.b.s.e., f.l.s., published in 1888 by the Belfast 
Naturalists' Field Club, marks an epoch in the work of the 
botanists of the North of Ireland. It contains the results 
of the work of nearly all the botanists who have investi- 
gated the plants of our district, and no other part of 
Ireland, except Co. Dublin, has as yet been so well examined. 
T. H. Corry, born at Belfast in i860, was drowned in 
Lough Gill, Co. Sligo, 4th August, 1883, while exploring 
for a botanical report, and with him his friend Mr. 
Charles Dickson, a solicitor of Belfast, who was also an 
enthusiastic botanist, and was helping in the investigation. 
Mr. Corry was a diligent worker, and had already attained 
a position amongst rising botanists beyond what his 
twenty-three years seem to warrant. He was lecturer on 
Botany in the University Medical and Science Schools, 
Cambridge ; and assistant curator of the University Her- 
barium. 
Stewart was thus left to carry on the preparation of 
the Flora for the press, and he took the greatest care in 
testing every record that it was possible to test and to 
confirm. This was a feature of his life. He never took 
anything for granted, and therefore his botanical work is 
thoroughly reliable. His care in this respect was so great 
as occasionally to disturb some of his friends and helpers, 
but it was a good quality. He contributed several im- 
portant reports on Irish botany to the Proceedings of the 
Royal Irish Academy. 
