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He was greatly concerned over the title-page of the 

 forthcoming " Flora of the North-East," in the draft of 

 which Mr. Stewart, through regard for his deceased partner, 

 scrupled to do himself justice. " I do beg and urge you 

 to put the late before Corry's name. . . . Your name should 

 stand first. I feel strongly about this, knowing the 

 immense labour the book has cost you. . . . You have 

 done it, and so far as I have seen you have done it right 

 well/' he protests (August 4th), and not content with 

 protesting, calls in the weight of Professor Babington's 

 authority. (Sept. 24th.) " Dear Sir, Babington, whom I have 

 consulted, says that you ought to put the late T. H. Corry. 

 So that, I hope, may be considered settled. I never had 

 any doubt about it." The " Flora " (as to whose title his 

 wish was at last acceded to) was published early in 1888. 



Meanwhile his health had not improved, and the last 

 month of 1887 was marked by a renewal of severe illness, 

 from the effects of which he suffered for many months 

 afterwards. On the 29th of April (1888) he was once again 

 wheeled out in his chair, and from this time may be said 

 to have made better progress. In June, and again in 

 September, he went for a few weeks to Bray ; and a little 

 work at Cybele Hibernica was resumed towards the end 

 of summer. But he felt pathetically the difficulty of 

 keeping " up to date " in knowledge of the new critical 

 forms, cut off, as he was, from the power of collecting and 

 exchanging, and his letters to Mr. Bennett, but for whom 

 he would indeed have been almost stranded, are full of 

 references to this cause of trouble. 



November ijth, 1888. 



DEAR MR. BENNETT, I can hardly thank you enough for your 

 very kind answer to my letter, and for the beautiful specimens which 

 arrived quite safely yesterday. You are treating me in a very generous 

 way, and I assure you that your kindness is the more appreciated now 

 that I am disabled, and I wish I could find some way of making you 

 some small return. I am doing what I can to urge the collecting of 

 Potamogetons and other aquatics. I hope this year my friend Mr. 

 Scully will have some to send you. He is a good and careful observer, 



and dries very good specimens And I hope it will not be very 



long before you will give us some plates as well as text of the Pota- 

 mogetons. Might not a monograph be published in parts, and the 

 best-known species given first ? 



