26 The h is/i Naturalist. February, 
and Antrim, within a radius of fifteen miles from Belfast. 
He taught for many years natural science classes which the 
Government established in Belfast, and in 1863 in con- 
junction with a number of his pupils founded the Belfast 
Naturalists' Field Club. A full account of this will be 
found in the Irish Naturalist, 1902. 
Catherine Gage, born 18 16, on Rathlin Island, where she 
died 1 6th February, 1892, and is buried, took a great 
interest in its native flora ; she made a series of drawings, 
correctly executed, of the greater part of the plants. Her 
list of the plants is very complete, the Dicotyledons being 
204, and the Monocotyledons 21 ; it was prepared for the 
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and an abstract was 
published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 
for the year 1850. 
James R. Garrett, of Hoh^wood, Co. Down, solicitor, 
born 1820, died 1855, who is known to Belfast zoologists 
as co-editor with Robert Patterson, of vol. iv. of 
Thompson's " Natural History of Ireland," in addition to 
being a zoologist was a student of the plants of the North- 
east of Ireland. He was one of the first fern -fanciers of 
the district, and had at Holy wood a fernery in which were 
grown specimens of all our native ferns, with several of their 
fancy varieties. I have now in my fernery two fine plants 
of Lastrea Filix-mas var. cristata which originally came from 
his garden. 
Rev. Richard Oulton, born in 1812, at Cooldagh, near 
Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, died at Holywood, in 1880, was 
curate of St. Anne's, Belfast, Chaplain to the Forces, and 
Registrar to the Queen's College. He was a keen botanist, 
and was intimate with the plants of the Counties Down, 
Antrim, and Armagh, and knew all the localities for the 
rarer species. He had formed a good herbarium of the local 
plants, which twenty years after his death on the demise 
of his widow, was sold, together with some other natural 
history collections and his library, in Belfast. 
In the second edition of " Cybele Hibernica " (1898), 
at p. 520, is the following correction of a notice of a very 
rare plant that was omitted in error from its proper place in 
the book — '' Euphorbia Peplis L. Garraris Cove, near 
