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Lady Kane, nee Katherine Baily, born iith March, i8n, 

 djed at Dublin 15th February, 1886, was authoress of the "Irish 

 F;lora," 1833. A considerable number of plants are first recorded 

 from Down and Antrim in this volume. 



Theobald Jones, F.L.S., Admiral, M.P. for Londonderry, was 

 born at Dublin 1790, and died there 12th February, 1868. He 

 contributed papers on Lichens to the Proceedings of the Dublin 

 Natural History Society. His large herbarium of Lichens is 

 preserved in the National Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin. 



David Orr, engaged in Glasnevin Gardens under Dr. Moore, 

 1854, retired 1882, died at Dublin 1892. He had resided in 

 Belfast, where he noted many plants, some of them very rare 

 mosses, as occurring in the district ; but a suspicion of error has 

 fallen upon a portion of his work and deprived it of the value it 

 otherwise would have had. 



Rev. VV. T. Whan, M.A., born (1835) at Ballylifford, near 

 Moneymore, Co. Derry. Taught classics and botany in the Old 

 Academy, Cookstown. Ordained by the Tyrone Presbytery 

 (i860) as a missionary to New Zealand, where he remained some 

 years, and subsequently removed to Victoria, Australia, where he 

 died (1905). His name occurs frequently in Dickie's Flora as the 

 collector of plants in the Counties of Armagh, Londonderry, and 

 Tyrone. 



The Flora of the North-East of Ireland by Samuel Alexander 

 Stewart, A.L.S., F.B.S.E., and Thomas Hughes Corry, F.L.S., 

 F.B.S.E., published in 1888 by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 

 marks an epoch in the work of the botanists of the North of 

 Ireland. It contains the results of the work of nearly all the 

 botanists who have investigated the plants of our district, and no 

 other part of Ireland except Co. Dublin has yet been so well 

 examined. T. H. Corry, born in Belfast in i860, was drowned in 

 Lough Gill, Co. Sligo, 4th August, 1883, while exploring for the 

 purposes of the Flora, and with him his friend Mr. Charles 

 Dickson, a solicitor of Belfast, who was also an enthusiastic 



