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help to decide the matter if we could only find out from the Clare College 

 records 



1. Was there a Fellow named Heaton about 1640-50? 



2. What were his names or initials ? And year of taking degree ? 



Was he a Revd. or a Dr. (D.D. ?), and did he hold a living in 



England ? 



At any rate I am sure you can advise me how to proceed, and 

 whether there is any hope of further information about our earliest Irish 

 Botanist. 



Mr. Babington found him the information he wanted. 

 Another Irish botanist, of whom great hopes (too soon 

 frustrated) were entertained by many, is mentioned in his 

 next : 



March 22, 1880. 



DEAR BABINGTON, I thought I had sent you the Supplement to 

 " Cyb. Hib." long ago, but as you do not seem to have received it I am 

 now posting you a copy. I am very glad to hear that you like Mr. 

 Corry. I have never seen him ; but I have no doubt he will turn out 

 one of our few reliable botanists. Thank you very much for the infor- 

 mation about Heaton. I have scarcely any doubt that he is the Rich. 

 Heaton you mention, and he was made Dean of Clonfert in 1662, vide 

 Cotton's "Fasti Ecclesise Hib." It would be interesting to know, if 

 not giving you too much trouble, his county, and entry at St. John's. 

 Newbould must have made some mistake about his being a " Fellow of 

 Clare." There is also one little item in Merrett's " Pinax" (a book I 

 cannot get in Dublin) to the effect that something is said about Heaton 

 under Trichomanes ramosum. Could you kindly look some day in the 

 University Library, as I suppose Merrett's book must be there. 



The wound in my leg is now quite healed, and I was getting on 

 famously till this morning, when I have picked up a very severe touch 

 of sciatica, or tic, or some other form of acute rheumatism. With my 

 very kind regards to Mrs. Babington; and again thanking you most 

 sincerely for your most kind letter and sympathy during my illness, 

 yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



His recovery was far less complete than had been 

 hoped. Next day (March 23rd) he was again confined to 

 bed, and for a fortnight after (to April 5th) suffered " sharp 

 and disabling pain" from the old wound, which was not 

 again pronounced healed until the ist of June. 



Nothing perhaps interested him more at this time than 

 Mr. Barrington's researches into the history of the Squirrel 

 in Ireland. It was just such an inquiry as he delighted in, 



