Thomas Hughes Corry. 61 



on the 9tli August 1883, Thomas Hughes Corry was 

 drowned on Lough Gill, Sligo, whilst prosecuting a botanical 

 survey of the district, at the instance of the Royal Irish 

 Academy. He was born in Belfast on the 19th December 

 1859, and was eldest son of Robert W. Corry, Benvue, 

 Belfast, and nephew of James P. Corry, M.P. for Belfast. 

 This martyr to science was only in his twenty-third year. 

 He has left a wife and child. 



Corry was a most distinguished student, whether as a boy 

 at the Royal Academical Institute or subsequently in the 

 Queen's College of his native town, taking his degree of 

 M.A. with honours, in biological science. From 1875 to 

 1878 he appears in the College lists as first prizeman in 

 mineralogy and geology, practical chemistry, botany, as 

 well as a prizeman in English literature and modern history. 

 He entered Gomville and Caius College, Cambridge, taking 

 an entrance scholarship. He subsequently obtained a 

 foundation scholarship, which he held for four years. He 

 also obtained the Shuttleworth scholarship in connection 

 with the Cambridge University, which he held at the time 

 of his lamented end. He was assistant curator of the 

 Cambridge Universit}' Herbarium, and demonstrator of 

 botany. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 and also a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Several of his 

 papers recently appeared in the Linnean Transactions. 

 He joined our Society in 1876. 



A Tyin Botanic Garden. By Pateick Geddes, RR.S.E. 

 (Plate VIII.) 



(Read 14th June 1883.) 



A brief account of a small Type Botanic Garden, which I 

 had recently occasion to construct at Grange House School, 

 may be interesting and instructive, as illustrating how much 

 may be made of a little space by judicious grouping and 

 choice of types. 



The plot of ground at my disposal, originally the rosetum of 

 the garden, was only about 40 feet by 100 in extent, and 

 even this space included much gravel-walk and turf. The 

 roses being cleared, and only a few yews and a central 



