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She appears to have been a botanist, but I have been unable 
to discover anything about her. 
Rev. William Somerville Smith, of Antrim, died 19 12, 
was intimate with the httoral flora of Lough Neagh. He 
pubhshed (1885) a httle book — " Gossip about Lough 
Neagh," which gives the names of the plants that grow 
around that lake. 
James Townsend Mackay, a.l.s., m.r.i.a., was born at 
Kirkcaldy, Fife, 1775, and died at Dublin 1862. He 
published in the Transactions of Royal Irish Academy, 
vol. xiv., 1825, "Catalogue of Plants found in Ireland." 
In 1836 he published " Flora Hibernica," in which there 
are many northern records of Phanerogams and Crypto- 
gams. 
Whitley Stokes, m.d., born at Waterford 1763, died at 
Dublin 13th April, 1845, was a friend of Templeton's, with 
whom he collected plants in Ulster. 
Robert Scott, m.d., died before 1813, discovered Di- 
cranum Scottii at Swanlinbar. He worked at mosses of the 
North of Ireland for Dawson Turner. 
Edmund Murphy, 1828-65, landscape gardener, of Dub- 
lin, contributed localities for plants from several northern 
counties, to Mackay's " Flora Hibernica." 
Francis Whitla, of Belfast, 1830-53, later of Dublin, 
knew Irish plants well, and contributed to " Flora Hi- 
bernica." 
Richard Kennedy, a young and promising botanist, 
found, in 1817, Hottonia palustris near Downpatrick. 
[If any reader of these pages can supply any information 
about any of the last-named thirteen botanists, I hope he 
will communicate with the writer.] 
Letitia Hannah Damer Sandys, born 1840, in the Isle of 
Wight, and educated in America, came to Ireland, and 
married Benjamin Nicholson White -Spunner, who became 
Rector of Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone; she died 1911. She 
was a naturalist of wide tastes, her speciality being botany. 
She prepared and exhibited a herbarium in book-form of 
the wild flowers of Ireland, which was exhibited at the 
Chicago Exhibition ; this collection is now preserved by 
her son, who resides in Co. Meath. 
