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Belfast, and in 1863, in conjunction with a number of his pupils, 

 founded the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. A full account of 

 this will be found in the " Irish Naturalist" for 1902. 



Miss Catherine Gage, daughter of Rev. Robert Gage, rector 

 of Rathlin, born in 18 16 on Rathlin Island, where she died 16th 

 February, 1892, and is buried, took a great interest in the native 

 Flora of the Island, and made a series of excellent drawings of 

 most of the plants, which are in the possession of the family. 

 Her list of the Island plants is very complete ; the Dicotyledons 

 being 204, and the Monocotyledons 21. This was prepared for the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and an abstract of it was 

 published in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History " for 

 the year 1850. 



James R. Garrett, of Holywood, Co. Down, solicitor, born 

 1820, died 1855, ls known to Belfast zoologists as co-editor with 

 Robert Patterson of Vol. IV. of Thompson's " Natural History of 

 Ireland," in addition to being a zoologist was a student of the 

 plants of the North-East of Ireland. He was one of the first fern 

 fanciers of the district, and had at Holywood a fernery in which 

 were grown specimens of all our native ferns, with several of their 

 fancy varieties. I have now in my fernery two fine plants of 

 Lastrea Filix-mas var. cristata, which originally came from his 

 garden. 



Rev. Richard Oulton, born in 181 2 at Cooldagh, near 

 Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, died at Holywood in 1880, was curate 

 of St. Anne's, Belfast, Chaplain to the Forces, and Registrar to 

 the Queen's College. He was a keen botanist, and was intimate 

 with the plants of the Counties Down, Antrim, and Armagh, and 

 knew all the localities for the rarer species. He had formed a 

 good herbarium of the local plants, which twenty years after his 

 death, on the demise of his widow, was sold, together with some 

 other natural history collections and his library, in Belfast. 



In the second edition of " Cybele Hibernica" (1898), at 

 p. 520, is the following correction of a notice of a very rare plan*: 



