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It will be necessary to keep a uniform standard of the extent 

 and limits of the species, and with this end in view it may be 

 desirable for the author to act in an editorial capacity when 

 dealing with the genera written by specialists ; but, so far as is 

 possible, each specialist will be given a free hand in the treatment 

 of his particular genus. 



Special attention will be paid to nomenclatorial matters, and 

 the International Eules will, in general, be followed. 



Vol. i., vv'hich will be about the fourth or fifth volume to appear, 

 will contain the Gymnosperms and Pteridophytes, and the intro- 

 ductory chapters. The latter will deal with topographical distri- 

 bution, and with such questions as the origin of the British Flora. 



SOME lEISH BOTANISTS. 

 By the Editor, 

 (with portraits.) 



For many years this Journal has given prominence to bio- 

 logical notices of botanists of these kingdoms who have been 

 removed by death from the fields in which they have won more or 

 less distinction, or have at least put on record in these pages some 

 evidence of their attachment to botanical investigation, repre- 

 senting different grades of society but one in their common interest 

 in botany. In the case of the three Irishmen of whom I now propose 

 to give a somew^hat belated notice, ample accounts have appeared 

 in the pages of the Irish Naturalist, to whom I am indebted for 

 many of the following facts, and also for permission to reproduce 

 the excellent portraits which accompany the memoirs. Althougli 

 late, it seems right that some notice of them should appear in 

 these pages, to which two at least were frequent contributors. 



Henry Chichester Hart 

 (1817-1908) 

 was born at Raheny, Co. Dublin, on July 29, 1847, at which 

 time his father. Sir Andrew S. Hart, was Vice-Provost of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1869. He came of a 

 Donegal family, and in his early youth began the investigation of 

 the county which, after several papers in this Journal from 1879 

 to 1896 and reports in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 culminated in his Flora of Donegal, published in 1898. Numerous 

 other papers dealing with the botany of various parts of Ireland 

 will be found in the two publications named, in whicli his name 

 appears as early as 1873, in connection with the discovery of 

 Alchemilla alpina in Wicklow ; those in this Journal were often 

 written in narrative form and, though thus less convenient for 

 comparison than a mere list, make far more interesting reading, 

 containing as they do many observations on the people and 

 customs of the different districts, and on other points connected 

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