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and contributed " On Flora of Ireland " to " Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History," VI. ( 1841) 1, and to "English Botany" 

 (2014-2184). 



Hannah Hincks (1798-1871) of Belfast, was a botanist and 

 algologist ; she was the oldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Dix 

 Hincks, and is often mentioned in " Flora of Ulster " and " Flora 

 of the North-East of Ireland " as " of Ballycastle." This is an 

 error which arose from the number of plants she found at 

 Ballycastle, to which sea bathing resort she paid an annual visit. 

 She formed a good Herbarium of Irish plants. 



James Lavvson Drummond, M.D., born at Lame 1783, and 

 died at Belfast 1853, and buried at Ahoghill, Co. Antrim. Was a 

 botanist, and one of the founders of the Belfast Botanic Gardens 

 in 1820, and of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society in 1821, to the Proceedings of which he contributed. 



Rt. Rev. Richard Mant, D.D., son of Rev. Richard Mant, 

 born at Southampton, 12th February, 1776, died at Ballymoney, 

 Co. Antrim, 1848, and was buried at Hillsborough. He had been 

 a scholar of Winchester, and then Fellow of Oriel, Oxford, and in 

 1820 became Bishop of Killaloe, and in 1823 Bishop of Down, 

 and lived at Holywood in a residence now incorporated with 

 the Palace Barracks. He was distinguished as a divine and 

 commentator on the Bible, an accomplished preacher, and a 

 sacred poet. From his college days he was a keen botanist and 

 was familiar with all our native plants. There is a good life-size 

 portrait of him in Culloden House, Cultra. My father, who was 

 one of his examining chaplains, used to tell a good anecdote 

 about Mant and a Belfast gentleman ; after dinner one day as the 

 party strolled round the garden, the Bishop's Presbyterian friend 

 plucked a leaf off the plant, .-Egopodium Podagraria, and 

 presenting it asked — " Mr. Bishop, how is it that my gardener 

 tells me that the worst weed he has to contend with is Bishop's 

 Weed ? "— " And " replied Dr. Mant " my gardener says the most 

 troublesome weed in my garden is called Elderweed ! " 



