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Eighteenth Century Women Botanists," is reprinted from a little-known 

 work, " Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis " of G. F. W. Meyer, published in 

 1818, p. 199, a tribute to the botanical work of Miss Hutchins. She is 

 described as having lately died at " Bontajae " in Ireland, which no doubt is 

 intended for " Bantry." Allusion is made to the Hepatic Jungermania- 

 (Frullania) Hutchinsiae as having been named after her ; mention is made of 

 her fervent love of the study of cryptogamic botany, notwithstanding all its 

 difficulties, and of her having found many plants new to English botany. 

 The remarkable collection of plants which she made, together with a large 

 number of beautiful drawings and notes on the plants, passed into the 

 possession of Dawson Turner, and are now in safe keeping at Kew. Taylor, in 

 Mackay's " Flora Hibernica," gives Miss Hutchins as the collector of eleven rare 

 mosses in Ireland. In Braithwaite's " British Moss Flora " are several 

 records of mosses collected by Miss Hutchins at " Belfast," and in the 

 " North of Ireland" m the year 1801. 



James Drummond (1784-1863), a.l.s., Curator of the Botanic Garden at 

 Cork, was a good muscologist, and discovered some species new to Ireland, 

 which he communicated to Dr. Taylor, by whom they were incorporated in 

 the " Flora Hibernica." 



H. Thomas Alexander, ji.d. (1833-1845) of Cork, surgeon in the Boyal 

 Navy, investigated the mosses in the County of Cork, and some of the 

 results were published in Power's " Contributions to the Fauna and Flora of 

 Cork." 



Thomas Drummond, a.l.s., who died (1835) at Havana in Cuba, came from 

 Forfar on the formation of the Belfast Botanic Gardens, and became its first 

 curator. He did not remain long in Belfast, but he made good use of his 

 time while there in collecting mosses, which were subsequently published in 

 folio without any letterpress, under the title " Musci Scotici," though a large 

 proportion of the specimens are Irish. There is a copy of this herbarium 

 bound in three volumes in the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society's library. 



Thomas Power (1845), m.d., Lecturer in Botany in Cork School of 

 Medicine, was the author of " Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of 

 the County of Cork" (1845). The paper on which this was founded was read 

 at the meeting of the British Association held in Cork in the year 1843. 

 This work gives the names of 172 species of mosses found in the county, 

 with locality and collector's name for each, amongst which Dr. Power's 

 name occmrs frequently. It is a model of what such a list should be. Four of 

 these species — Pottia Wilsoni, Oligotrichum incurvum, Physcomitrium pyri- 

 forme, JEpipterygium Tozeri, had not been noticed by Taylor, and were additions 



