CoRRY — On the Heights attained by Plants on Ben Bulhen. 73 



IX. — 0.\ iHi: Heights attals-ed bt Plaxts o>' Bex^ Buxbek. By the 

 late Thoieas HrGHES Coeey, M.A., F.L.S.* 



[Eead, December 10, 1883.] 



'SLr. Coeey had received from the Academy, in 1882 and 1883, a 

 grant for the exploration of the Botany of the Ben Bulben Range of 

 fountains, and it was in carrying out this undertaking that he met 

 with the accident which caused his prematui-e death. He and his 

 companion, Ih'. Dickson, were drowned by the upsetting of their Lout 

 ia Lough Gill, near Sligo, in the month of August last. 



Mr. Corry's career as a Botanist was only just commencing, but 

 he had already given great promise of distinction as a scientific Natu- 

 ralist. Himself an Irishman, he took the greatest interest in the Botany 

 of the country. His remarkable zeal and energy, his love for the study 

 of critical plants, together with the position which he held as Curator 

 in the Herbarium at Cambridge, and as the trusted friend of Professor 

 Babington, gave him unusual advantages, of which he diligently 

 availed himself ; and his early death will be deplored by all who feel 

 an interest in the advance of Botany in Ireland. One of his best 

 contributions to the subject is an account which he published of a 

 tour made in Clare in 1879. He also wrote several short ai'ticles 

 chiefly relating to Irish plants for the " Journal of Botany," and, at 

 the time of his death, had made preparations for printing a Flora of 

 !North-eastem Ireland. 



Owing to the unexpected death of Mr. Corry, at the very time 

 when he was commencing a second exploration of the Botany of Ben 

 Bulben and its neighbourhood, his notes and manuscripts were left 

 very incomplete, the more so because he had postponed writiag any 

 detailed account of his work until he should have fijiished his intended 

 examination of the whole range, both in Sligo and Leitrim, and 

 therefore he had not yet put together any connected narrative of the 

 expedition which he made, with his friend Mi'. Dickson, in 1882. 



Under these circumstances, it has been thought best to extract 

 only the heights, as found carefully noted by Mr. Corry, in the copy 

 of the " London Catalogue of British Plants " which he carried with 

 him. As his researches were almost entirely confined to the county 

 of Sligo, and as there is no mention of Truskmore Mountain in his 

 notes, it will probably be safe to take 1963 feet, the summit of Ben 

 Weisken, as the highest point of the range explored by him. From 

 the capital letters B, W, K placed opposite many of the species, he 

 appears to have visited the three mountains, Ben Bulben, Ben Weis- 

 ken, and King's Mountaia (or Knocknaree), also Glencar, and a 

 mountain opposite King's Mountain. 



Of the twenty-three Alpine species previously known as occiuTing 

 on this range, it will be seen that Mr. Corry gathered eighteen, and 



* Communicated by A. G. More, F.L.S., M.E.I. A. 



