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and canina,’ and in the 2nd vol, (1850), pp. 1-2, a ‘Notice on 
Potamogeton fluitans Roth and Ulex Gallii Planch.’ ; 
Meanwhile, though these short notes suffice to show the writer’s 
critical acumen, he was already giving proof of the direction in 
which that acumen was likely to be employed. In 1850 he 
platyphylla’ ; and in the same volume (pp. 155-7) appears a ‘ Note 
on Athyrium filix-femina var. latifolium,’ dated 12th November, 
on the ‘ Occurrence of Orobanche carulea Vill. and Aconitum Napellus 
in Monmouthshire,’ dated July 21st, 1852, anda ‘Note on the 
of Mr. H 
Cambridge. 
In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of his College; in 1853 he 
n 
ment of botany in favour of biblical studies in much the same 
manner as Watson regretted that Edward Forbes’ « attention had 
been drawn from botany to the more showy studies, in which he 
became eminent.”’ 
With Hort’s subsequent career we are not here concerned. He 
became Divinity Lecturer and Fellow of Emmanuel College in 
1872, Hulsean Professor of Divinity in 1878, and Lady Margaret 
Professor in 1887. He became D.D. of his own University in 1875; 
published two theological dissertations in 1876, and, jointly with 
Dr. Westcott, a revised Greek text of the New Testament in 1881. 
of the New Testament, and for these services to scholarship was 
L Trinity College, Dublin, in 1888, and 
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