so The Irish Natufalist. February, 
A most interesting biographical sketch of Stewart's Ufe, 
by Rev. C. H. Waddell, b.d., will be found in the Annual 
Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 
Club for 1910-11, pp. 410-434, and in the lYish Naturalist 
for October, 1910. And in the same number of the Irish 
Naturalist is a contribution by Mr. Praeger on Stewart's 
work, together with a complete list of his writings. 
It is a tragic and remarkable coincidence that Stewart's 
death, like that of his coadjutor on the " Flora of the 
North-east of Ireland " was the result of an accident. 
He died from injuries received by falling on the pavement 
in Ann Street, Belfast, on 15th June, igio. 
Rev. Samuel Arthur Brenan, b.a., t.c.d., born 1837, 
died 1908 at Cushendun and buried at Cushendall, was a 
keen botanist, and never thought any trouble too much 
or any walk too long in looking for a rare plant. He 
worked principally amongst the flora of Antrim, Armagh, 
and Tyrone, and contributed notes to the Journal of 
Botany and Irish Naturalist^ and specimens to other 
workers. He left his herbarium to his friend, Mr. William 
Hancock, who deposited it in the Belfast Museum. 
Canon John Grainger, d.d., Rector of Skerry and Rath- 
cavan, born 1830 at Belfast, died 1891 at Broughshane, 
where he is buried, and who gave his immense collections, 
of stone and metal antiquities and coins, geological specimens 
insects, and shells, and library to the city of Belfast, though 
best known as an antiquary and geologist, was also a 
botanist. In the preface to " Flora Belfastiensis," the 
author acknowledges the assistance he received from him 
in the compilation of that book, and nothing gave him 
greater pleasure than to return home from one of the 
Naturalists' Field Club excursions bringing something new 
to add to his herbarium. 
John Henry Davies, born at Penketh, near Warrington, 
1838, died suddenly at Belfast 20th August, 1909, spent 
the greater portion of his life in Ireland. In very early 
life he developed a taste for botany, making a speciality of 
mosses, and corresponding with Professor W. H. Harve3% 
of Trinity College, Dublin, and William Wilson, of War- 
rington. Specimens of Mosses collected by him in Wicklow 
