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Harvey's splendid work, " Phycologia Britannica." Dickie 
in the preface to the " Flora of Ulster" acknowledges the 
botanical memoranda of the late Mr. W. Thompson as having 
furnished valuable information for the "Flora," in the pages 
of which are numerous records of his collecting of various 
plants. And in the Belfast Museum is a herbarium formed 
by Thompson, which is of itself an enduring evidence 
of his industry and research in the fruitful fields of botany. 
An account of his life was published in the posthumous 
vol. iv. of his " Natural History of Ireland." 
David Moore, f.l.s., was born at Dundee 1807, and died 
at Dublin 1879. He came to Ireland, one of those able 
adventurous Scotchmen who have done so much for science 
in this island, in 1828, as assistant to Jas. T. Mackay, the 
director of Trinity College Botanic Gardens ; and in 1835 
he received an appointment as botanist on the Ordnance 
Survey of Ireland. The district which Moore surveyed 
was County Londonderry and part of Antrim. His 
discoveries are recorded in the " Phytologist " (1857), ^^ 
Colby's " County Derry," in his own " Synopsis of the 
Mosses of Ireland," in the Proceedings of the Royal 
Irish Academy (1872), and in his " Report on Irish 
Hepatic?e " in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 
(1876). x\ brief biography will be found in the " Flora of 
the North-east of Ireland." 
Thomas Drummond, a.l.s., died at Havana, Cuba, 1835. 
Came from Forfar on the formation of the Belfast Botanic 
Gardens, of which he was the first curator. He did not 
remain long in Belfast, but made good use of his time 
collecting Mosses, which were subsequently published in a 
folio without any letterpress under the title " Musci 
Scotici," though a large number of the specimens are Irish. 
There is a copy in the Belfast Museum Library. 
Lady Kane, nee Katherine Baily, born nth March, 
1811, died at Dublin 15th February, 1886, was authoress of 
the " Irish Flora," Dublin, 1833. A considerable number 
of plants are first recorded from Down and Antrim in this 
volume. 
Theobald Jones, f.l.s.. Admiral, m.p. for Londonderry, 
was born at Dubhn, 1790, and died there 12th February, 
