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OBITUARY. 



HARRY CORBYN I^EVINGE. 



The late Mr. H. C. Levinge, D.i^., j.p., who died at his residence, 

 Knockdrin Castle, Mullingar, on March nth, in his 68th year, was the 

 ninth and youngest son of Sir Richard Ivevinge, 6th Baronet, and a 

 member of an old Westmeath family, who have been identified with that 

 county for over two hundred years. Though but a comparatively recent 

 recruit to the ranks of Irish botanists, Mr. Levinge did much to further 

 our knowledge of the distribution of the flowering plants of this country- 

 His three papers on the plants of Westmeath in this Journal, the last of 

 which appeared so lately as last February, form highly important con- 

 tributions to the flora of that beautiful and interesting county, previously 

 almost unexplored ; and his wise encouragement of that remarkable self- 

 taught botanist, Mr. P. B. O'Kelh, of Ballyvaughan, resulted in the 

 publication of two plants new to Ireland— Pohi/uooe^on lanccolaitis and 

 Litnosdla aqiiatica — the discovery of both of which was due to Mr. O'Kelly's 

 keen eye. To t\iQ Journal of Bofauy \\q^ also contributed occasional notes 

 of Irish plants, his most important paper being that on " Neotinea iniacta 

 in County Clare," published in 1892. Among those who had the privi- 

 lege of exchanging botanical specimens with him, Mr. Levinge's 

 plants were famous for the beauty and perfection of the drying, and 

 his herbarium of British plants, to which he devoted much time, was a 

 model of what such a collection should be. Mr. Levinge's devotion to 

 Irish botany, which commenced but a comparatively few years ago, on 

 his return to Ireland after a long period of labour in the Indian Civil 

 Service, was, we believe largely due to the imobtrusive influence and 

 enthusiasm of his friend, A. G. More, who did so much to quicken the 

 activities of a whole generation of Irish botanists. 



Directory of Irish Naturalists.'— A number of members of Irish 

 Field Clubs well qualified for insertion in the new Directory have not yet 

 returned the forms issued with the February nimiber of the LN. They 

 are requested to fill them in and return them without delay, as the list 

 will shortly close. Extra forms may be obtained from the undersigned. 



R. Li^OYD Praeger, 



Sec. Irish Field Club Union 



