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Naturalist" for May, 1909, a record of the discovery by him of 

 Chtnopodium polyspermum on the shore of Lough Neagh. 



Rev. Samuel Arthur Brenan, B.A., T.C.D., born 1837, died 

 1908 at Cushendun, and buried at Cushendall, was a keen 

 botanist, and never thought any trouble too much or any walk 

 too long in looking for a rare plant. He worked principally 

 amongst the Flora of Antrim, Armagh, and Tyrone, and con- 

 tributed notes to the " Journal of Botany " and " Irish Naturalist," 

 and specimens to other workers. He left his herbarium to his 

 friend, Mr. William Hancock, who deposited it in the Belfast 

 Museum. 



Canon John Grainger, D.D., rector of Skerry and Rathcavan, 

 born 1830 at Belfast, died 1891 at Broughshane, where he is 

 buried, gave his immense collections of stone and metal antiquities 

 and coins, geological specimens, insects and shells, and library to 

 the City of Belfast, though best known as an antiquary and 

 geologist, was also a botanist. In the preface to " Flora 

 Belfastiensis " the author acknowledges the assistance he received 

 from him in the compilation of that book, and nothing gave him 

 greater pleasure than to return home from one of the Naturalists' 

 Field Club excursions bringing something new to add to his 

 herbarium. 



Isabella Maffett, daughter of Richard Maffett, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., 

 of Glasslough, Co. Monaghan, born at Glasslough 1842, died 23rd 

 April, 1907, and was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. 

 Contributed to the Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club. Herbarium is at Church House, Clyde Road, Dublin, of 

 which Institution for many years she had been Mother Superior. 

 She is mentioned by Stewart in the Introduction to " Flora of 

 North-East of Ireland." 



John Henry Davies, born at Penketh, near Warrington, 1838, 

 died suddenly at Belfast 20th August, 1909, spent the greater 

 portion of his life in Ireland. In very early life he developed a 

 taste for botany, making a speciality of mosses, and corresponding 



