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IN MEMORY OF THOMAS HUGHES CORRY. 
It is happily but pani that ~ pursuit of botany is attended 
with results so disastrous as those which we have had lately to 
deplore in the death of te Trish “bobaninteion of them already 
eminent in more than one branch of the science, the other, a 
comparatively recent student, but bidding fair to become a loading 
lo oo i authority. But the investigation upon which Mr. T. H. Corry 
and arles Dickson were engaged terminated fatally and 
serauly on Thursday, the 4th of August. On the morning of that 
day the two gentlemen went out in a boat upon Lough Gill, for the 
purpose of examining the botany of the islands in the lake. The 
weather was very boisterous, and the wind rough; the boat was 
upset, and the two botanists were drowned. 
Mr. Charles Dickson had sompazatively lately take up the study 
of botany, but gave much promise of distinguishing himself in 
local investigation, having good powers of observation. Of Mr 
d in 
sustained by his death can hardly be over-estimated. The os 
paper upon the floral hb oe and fertilisation of A 
Cornuti, which he read at the Linnean Society last Dube, 
within a fortnight of his Sa irae to that body, and which has 
since been published in their ‘ Transactions,’ at once established 
his position as a minute and careful observer. His shorter notes, 
toa ad upon Irish plants, riot of which have appeared i 2 this 
ournal, presented him in another light as a pains 
energetic eld botanist. Mr. Corry’s first abort iciaed botania ae 
seams to have been one recording his rediscov of Car 
Buxbaumii at ‘Tough Neagh, published in ‘ Beicnae ose? for 
1878, p. 187. 
At the = his death (at the early age of ee: Bila eg 
Corry—who held at Cambridge the post of Lecturer 
oe University “Medical and Science Schools and to Gita ‘alee, 
well as that of Assistant Curator of the pe acl Herbari 
was a candidate for the post of Examiner in Botany to the ‘Trish 
Board of Intermediate Education. A copy of his eed now 
before us gives a lengthy list of the honours which he had obtained. 
The following notice from the pen of his friend Professor Babington 
will, we are sure, be read with interest :— 
“T cannot say too much in praise of my truly lamented 
friend Corry. It is quite unnecessary for me to say that he was 
an eraser physiological botanist, for his ade published by 
the Linnean and other Savio prove this. And from 
personal knowledge 2 know him to have to exceedingly well 
acquainted with descriptive ulate. Indeed in this latter de- 
partment he has been of the highest value to me. I lose in him 
not only an excellent scientific helper, but also a very greatly 
valued. ane 
‘‘He was an admirable and indefatigable worker; indeed he 
