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of Cryptogams, chiefly mosses, with their locahties. In 
this book is inserted a letter from Miss F. M. More, sister 
of Alexander Goodman More, to Dr. Edward Perceval 
Wright, Secretary, Royal Irish Academy, dated March, 
1897, in which she says — " The Manuscript which accom- 
panies this letter was drawn up between 1794 and 1810, 
by the eminent naturalist, John Templeton, in Belfast. 
It was lent by his son, Dr. R. Templeton, to my brother, 
Alex. G. More, when he was preparing the second edition 
of the ' Cybele Hibernica,' on condition that it should be 
placed in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy after- 
wards." 
The other six volumes are quarto size, and contain 
1,090 folios, with descriptions of many of the plants, and 
careful drawings in pen and pencil and colours of many 
species. They are now lent to the Belfast Museum. 
About ten years ago I spent a week in examining these 
volumes, and as their contents have hitherto never been 
fully described, I would like to give an epitome of my 
investigation of them. 
Vol. I. — Phanerogams, 186 folios, with 15 coloured 
figures, and 6 small drawings in the text. 
Vol. II. — Fresh-water Algae, 246 folios, 71 of which are 
coloured. 
Vol. III. — Marine Algae, 212 folios, of which 79 are 
coloured figures. At the end of this volume are 3 folios 
of Mosses, the pagination of which runs with the rest of 
this volume, but it is evident they had at some time been 
misplaced. 
Vol. IV. — Fungi, 112 folios. 
Vol. V. — Mosses, 117 folios, of which 20 are coloured, and 
also 73 small drawings in the text. 
Vol. VI. — Mosses and Hepaiics. 117 folios are Hepatics, 
40 of which are in colours ; 96 folios are Mosses, of which 39 
are full -page coloured figures ; and in addition there are 
43 small coloured drawings in the text. 
All these drawings were executed by Templeton himself, 
they are every one most accurately and beautifully drawn; 
and the colouring is true to nature and artistically finished, 
those of the mosses and hepatics being particularly good. 
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