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and Kildare in 1857, i^^ which neighbourhood he then hved, 
are prescrxed in the herbarium of Trinity College. He 
contributed papers on the Mosses of Antrim and Down to 
the Phytologist and Irish Naturalist, from 1857 to 1907. 
Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., F.L.S., was born at Raheny, 
Co. Dublin, 29th July, 1847, and died at Carrablagh, on the 
shores of Lough Swilly, 7th August, 1908. He did a very 
large amount of field-work between 1873 and the end of 
the century, parts of nearly every county in Ireland re- 
ceiving his attention. He specialized in the Flora of Co. 
Donegal. In Praeger's "Irish Topographical Botany" 
are listed fifteen papers on the plants of that county's 
botany alone, which he contributed to the Journal of 
Botany and Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
This material was eventually summarized in his well-known 
"Flora of County Donegal." A short account of his life 
and work, from the pen of his friend, R. M. Barrington, 
appears in the Irish Naturalist for December, 1908. 
Mrs. Mary Isabella leehody, who died in 1911 at Lon- 
donderry, did good botanical work for many years, and 
added many records for the county in which she resided. 
She is frequently mentioned in the Irish Naturalist. 
Rev. George Robinson, m.a.. Rector of Tartaraghan, Co. 
Armagh, born 1824 (?) died 1894, was a careful and ardent 
botanist, and contributed many records of the rarer plants 
from Co. Armagh to Dickie's " Flora of Ulster." 
Rev. W. T. Whan is mentioned frequently in Dickie's 
" Flora" as the collector of uncommon plants in counties 
Armagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. 
Another botanist who contributed to Dickie's records 
was VV. H. Ferguson, of Belfast, who was a pupil of his. 
A friend of Dickie's, William Millar, was a teacher in 
Belfast, who had always been very desirous of promoting 
a taste for botany among his private pupils. He had an 
enthusiastic love for the native plants of his country. 
Doctor Mateer was another Belfast botanist who also 
helped by his own work to foster a love of the study of 
botany. A Miss Maffet, of Belfast, is mentioned by Stewart 
in the Introduction to the " Flora of North-east Ireland." 
