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Doctor Mateer was another Belfast botanist who also helped 

 by his own work to foster a love of the study of botany. 



Rev. William Sunderland Smith, of Antrim, died 1912, was 

 intimate with the littoral flora of Lough Neagh. He published 

 (1885) a little book "Gossip about Lough Neagh" which gives 

 the names of the plants that grow around that lake. 



James Townsend Mackay, A.L.S., M.R.I. A., was born at 

 Kirkcaldy, Fife, 1775, and died at Dublin 1862. He published 

 in the Transactions of Royal Irish Academy, Vol. XIV., 1825, 

 " Catalogue of Plants found in Ireland." In 1836 he published 

 " Flora Hibernica " in which there are many northern records of 

 phanerogams and cryptogams. 



Whitley Stokes, F.T.C.D., M.D., born at Waterford 1763, 

 died at Dublin, 13th April, 1845, was a friend of Templeton's, 

 with whom he collected plants in Ulster. 



Robert Scott, M.D., died before 1813, discovered Dicranum 

 scottii at Swanlinbar. He worked at mosses of the North of 

 Ireland for Dawson Turner. 



Edmund Murphy, 1828-65, landscape gardener of Dublin, 

 contributed localities for plants from several northern counties to 

 Mackay's " Flora Hibernica." 



Francis Whitla, of Belfast, 1830-53, later of Dublin, knew 

 Irish plants well, and contributed to " Flora Hibernica." 



Richard Kennedy, a young and promising botanist, found in 

 18 1 7 Hottonia palustris near Downpatrick. 



Letitia Hannah Darner Sandys, born 1840 in the Isle of 

 Wight and educated in America, came to Ireland and married 

 Benjamin Nicholson White-Spunner, who became rector of 

 Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone. She died 1911. She was a naturalist 

 of wide tastes, her speciality being botany. She prepared and 

 exhibited a herbarium in book form of the wild flowers of Ireland 



