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of Surgeons, Dublin ; and a few years later lie was made Director 

 of tlie Natural-History Museum of the Eoyal Dublin Society. 

 When Dr. Carte entered upon these latter duties, he found the 

 collections of the Dublin Society in a very embryotic stage — 

 some few stuffed birds in a case and a few miserable-looking 

 quadrupeds. The Museum, now by Act of Parliament the Na- 

 tional Museum for Ireland, owes its present existence to the 

 labours and perseverance of Dr. Carte ; he had to commence at 

 the very beginning, and to obtain not only the specimens, but 

 also the cases to hold them. Although a well-taught anatomist, Dr. 

 Carte was not a zoologist in the general acceptance of the word ; 

 and his printed contributions to science were not numerous. He 

 was of the type of those who can make collections, but cannot 

 disclose their treasures to best advantage. A list of his papers, 

 written by himself or in conjunction with Prof Macalister, will 

 be found in the Eoyal Soc. Cat. of Scientific Papers. 



He was made Pellow of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 

 in 1844, and elected a Fellow of our Society in 1859 ; in addition, 

 he was a Member of several foreign societies. He died on the 

 25th September 1881. 



Feedeeick Cueeet was born at Norwood, in Surrey, August 

 19th, 1819, his father, Mr. Benjamin Currey, being Clerk of the 

 Parliaments. He received his education at Eton and Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, where ho obtained a Scholarship, took his 

 B.A. degree in 1841, and proceeded to M.A. in 1844. In that 

 year he was called to the Bar, and thenceforth practised as con- 

 veyancer and equity draughtsman. 



His earliest work on scientific subjects appears to have been a 

 translation of Schacht's ' Das Mikroskop,' which was issued in 

 1853, and so well received as to call for a second edition two 

 years later. In 1854 he contributed a paper to the ' Microsco- 

 pical Journal ' on two new Fungi ; and in the fifth volume of the 

 ' Phytologist ' were printed some observations on the "Fungi of 

 the Neighbourhood of Greenwich." The ' Microscopical Journal ' 

 about this time contains several papers on the more obscure 

 points in the life-history of cryptogams and on local botany. 



The Greenwich Natural-History Club, established in 1852, had 

 appointed a Committee to draw up a Ecport on the flora of the 

 neighbourhood. Mr. Currey being chosen Chairman, drafted 

 the Eeport, which was printed as an 8vo pamphlet early in 1858, 

 in which 395 fungi were enumerated. The title runs, ' On the 

 Botany of the District lying between the Elvers Cray, Eavens- 

 bourne, and Thames.' 



Ill the first volume of the ' Journal of the Linncan Society ' ho 

 described the development of Sclcrotium roseum, Kneiff., which 

 was named by the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, Pcziza Gurreijana. In 

 1856 he was elected Fellow of our Society ; in 1857 he communi- 

 cated an account of the existence of amorphous starch in a 



