308 Alexander Goodman More. [isss 



.... I have been touring with my sister the last ten days. We 

 went to St. David's, the remote S.W. promontory of S. Wales; but the 

 rock scenery, though interesting, will not compare with the west coast 

 of Ireland. We got two very scarce plants, Allium sibiricum and 

 Genista pilosa ; also Aira uliginosa, Cicendia, &c. I enclose you a bit 

 of the Genista, though I daresay you will have left home by this, and I 

 hope that you will b successful in your Shannon expedition. Better 

 dry any uncommon-looking Chara. I expect to be back in Dublin early 

 in September ; so I hope you will write and say how you are getting on. 

 There are some fine ruined castles hereabouts, and fine rocks and 

 cliffs. 



He was back in Dublin on the ist of September, and 

 was, for the concluding months of the year, even more 

 than usually busy. His correspondence was incessant, 

 much of it relating to Birds, but more, at this time, to 

 Fishes. Dr. F. Day, Mr. J. D. Ogilby, and Dr. Gunther 

 were his principal ichthyological correspondents. But on 

 no subject was he more intent than upon the interests of 

 Irish botany, and his concern lest any of the fruits of 

 Mr. Corry's labours might be lost appears in his next letter 

 to Mr. Stewart : 



September 20 th, 1883. 



MY DEAR SIR, I was away in England when I received the sad 

 news of the lamentable death of our friend Mr. Corry. His will indeed 

 be a serious loss to the cause of botany in Ireland, and the object of 

 my present letter is to ask you whether you can tell me about any notes 

 or MS. which he may have left. If his observations made last year on 

 Ben Bulben are sufficiently arranged, I think it would be very desirable 

 to have them published by the Royal Irish Academy ; and of course if 

 I could be of any service in editing them, or in bringing them before 

 the Academy, I should be most happy to do all I can. 



Again, about the Flora of Derry and Antrim, which I remember you 

 told me was to be ready this winter, and in which I think you were his 

 partner. Has this advanced any considerable way towards completion, 

 and are you in charge of part or all of the MS. ? I do think that, in any 

 case, an effort should be made to bring out this ; . . and I think that 

 the publication of his labours would be a very proper tribute to his 

 memory. 



Mr. Stewart sent him the Ben Bulben notes, and a 

 sample-sheet of the projected Flora. The former he worked 

 into a Report which he read as Mr. Corry's to the Academy, 

 on the loth of December. " I have mentioned in the 



