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powers of observation, as shown by his paper "On a minute Alga, 

 which colours Ballydrain Lake," and more especially by the 

 number of localities contributed by him to Professor Harvey's 

 splendid work, " Phycologia Britannica." Dickie in the preface 

 to the " Flora of Ulster " acknowledges the botanical memoranda 

 of the late Mr. W. Thompson as having furnished valuable 

 information for the " Flora," in the pages of which are numerous 

 records of his collecting of various plants. And in the Belfast 

 Museum is a herbarium formed by Thompson, which is of itself 

 an enduring evidence of his industry and research in the fruitful 

 fields of botany. An account of his life was published in the 

 posthumous Vol. IV. of his "Natural History of Ireland." 



David Moore, F.L.S., was born at Dundee 1807, and died at 

 Dublin 1879. He came to Ireland, one of those able adventurous 

 Scotchmen who have done so much for science in this island, in 

 1828, as assistant to James T. Mackay, the director of Trinity 

 College Botanic Gardens; and in 1835 he received an appointment 

 as botanist on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The district which 

 Moore surveyed was County Londonderry, and part of Antrim. 

 His discoveries are recorded in the " Phytologist " (1857), in 

 Colby's " Co. Derry," in his own " Synopsis of the Mosses of 

 Ireland," in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1872;, 

 and in his " Report on Irish Hepaticae " in Proceedings of the 

 Royal Irish Academy (1876). A brief biography will be found in 

 the " Flora of the North-East of Ireland." 



Thomas Drummond, A.L.S., died Havana, Cuba, 1835. 

 Came from Forfar on the formation of the Belfast Botanic 

 Gardens, of which he was the first Curator. He did not remain 

 long in Belfast, but made good use of his time collecting Mosses, 

 which were subsequently published in a folio without any letter- 

 press under the title " Musci Scotici," though a large number of 

 the specimens are Irish. There is a copy in the Belfast Museum 

 Library. 



