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Yorkshire, 1837, and died at Ilkley, 1902. In his " Synopsis of British 

 Mosses " (1873), while he does not give many localities, he mentions "Ireland " 

 as the locality of 35 species. 



George Edward Hunt (1841-1873) bulled at St. Saviour's, Manchester, 

 visited the south-west of Ireland in the years 1861, 1864, and 1872, for 

 the purpose of collecting mosses, and distributed a large number of these 

 specimens to students. His herbarium is now at Kew. 



Professor S. 0. Lindberg, in a paper, " Hepaticae in Hibernia mense Julii 

 1873, lectae," published in " Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae," 1875, 

 describes a few mosses he collected on this visit to Ireland. He visited 

 Killarney and Wicklow. 



The London Catalogue of British Mosses and Hepatics (1877), published 

 under the directions of the Botanical Becord Club (Mr. H. Boswell being 

 responsible for the census numbers), was the first attempt at a census of the 

 distribution of mosses in the British Islands. In this the occurrence of 

 each species in each district is shown by use of the numbers of the Watsonian 

 Botanical Provinces for Great Britain, and by the letter " I " for Ireland — a 

 very vague and scarcely useful practice as regards Ireland, which was also 

 used in the second edition (1881). The total of species thus recorded for 

 Ireland is 397, out of a total of 568 for the British Islands. 



Alexander Knox, ji.d., published in Dublin (1875) " A History of the 

 County of Down," in which he states that 234 species of mosses are known 

 to grow in the North of Ireland, and he gives the names of 8 of the rarer 

 species. He seems to infer that mosses found in any part of the North of 

 Ireland are to be found everywhere in it. But most certainly one of the 

 species he names, viz., Taylorico serrata, has not yet been discovered in the 

 County of Down. 



Robert Clayton-Browne, who was born at Newmount, Carlow, 3rd May, 

 18-58, and died at Greenville, Carlow, 15th December, 1906, studied and 

 collected mosses iii Carlow, Wexford, and Kilkenny. He made a large 

 number of excellent drawings of magnified parts of the plants, all of which, 

 with his herbarium, are in the National Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin. 



Henry Chichester Hart (1847-1908), as part of his botanical work, collected 

 mosses in many of the counties of Ireland, and submitted them for identifica- 

 tion to D. Moore and G. A. Holt. A list of 28 of the rarer species which 

 he found, and the localities, was published by him in the " Journal of 

 Botany" for 1886. 



Benjamin Carrington, ji.d., f.k.s.e., born at Lincoln, 1827, died at Brighton, 

 1893. Chiefly known as an hepaticist, he was also a student of mosses. He 

 spent several months iii 1862 at Killarney and other places in Kerry and 



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