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still in existence, and are evidence of his painstaking researches 

 and industry. He aimed to make his work as perfect as was 

 possible, and when some of his friends urged him to complete and 

 publish his Flora it was his diffidence that held him back. 



The authors whom Templeton helped by sending them 

 specimens were :— Sir James Edward Smith in "English Botany" 

 and " Flora Britannica ;" Louis Weston Dillwyn in " British 

 Confervae ;" Dawson Turner in "British Fuci " and " Muscologia 

 Hibernica;" Dubourdieu's "Histories of Antrim and Down," and 

 Sampson's " History of Londonderry." 



The MSS. left by Templeton consist of seven volumes. One 

 of these is a small 8vo. half bound. It is in the Library of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, and contains 280pp. of lists of Cryptogams, 

 chiefly Mosses, with their localities. In this book is inserted a 

 letter from Miss F. M. More, sister of Alexander Goodman More, 

 to Dr. Edward Perceval Wright, Secretary Royal Irish Academy, 

 dated March, 1897, in which she says "the manuscript which 

 accompanies this letter was drawn up between 1794 and 18 10 by 

 the eminent naturalist, John Templeton, in Belfast. It was lent 

 by his son, Dr. R. Templeton, to my brother, Alex. G. More, 

 when he was preparing the second edition of the ' Cybele 

 Hibernica,' on condition that it should be placed in the Library 

 of the Royal Irish Academy afterwards." The other six volumes 

 are quarto size, and contain 1,090 folios, with descriptions of 

 many of the plants, and careful drawings in pen and pencil and 

 colours of many species. They were lent some years ago to the 

 Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. 



All the drawings were executed by Templeton himself, they 

 are every one most accurately and beautifully drawn, and the 

 colouring is true to nature and artistically finished, those of the 

 Mosses and Hepatics being particularly so. 



Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks, LL.D. (1767-1857), born at 

 Dublin, died at Belfast, and was buried at Killyleagh, Co. Down. 

 Was Corresponding Secretary of the Belfast Botanical Society, 



