June, 1921. 



Th', Irish Naturalist. 



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MARGARET CxREER FLOOD. 



We have to record the loss which science in Ireland has sus- 

 tained by the untimely death of Margaret Greer Flood, B.A., 

 on the 3rd May last. The funeral at Mount Jerome Ceme- 

 tery was attended by many friends and sympathisers, who 

 retain the memory of a refined and enthusiastic character, 

 much beloved by her fellow-students both at Trinity College 

 and the Royal College of Science. Born in Dublin in 1896, 

 her life was short ; but it promised much, and the small 

 band of Irish naturalists mourn their youngest and brightest 

 recruit. It is not for us to speak of the void left in the 

 circle of her relatives and intimate friends, whose poignant 

 grief was so heart-breaking as she was laid to rest. We 

 can but chronicle the brief facts of her public life. 



Educated at Norfolk College, Rathgar, she entered 

 Trinity College in 1914, where her career was a distinguished 

 one. Prof. Henry H. Dixon, F.R.S., under whom she 

 worked at botany, says : " She more than once obtained 

 first-class honours in Natural Science, and in October, 1918, 

 she won Senior Moderatorship, the subjects being Botany, 

 Zoology, and Geology. She submitted at that examination, 

 as part of her research work, an investigation on the 

 ' Exudation of Water by Colocasia antiquonim,' which was 

 afterwards published in the Proceedings of the Royal Dublin 

 Society, vol. xv. No. 36 (April, 1919), and reprinted in 

 ' Notes from the Botanical School, T.C.D.' This work 

 established the existence of continuous passages connecting 

 the vessels of the wood of the leaf with the exterior, and 

 showed that there is no epithema on the leaf-tip responsible 

 for the exudation. In May, 1920, Miss Flood gained at 

 Trinity College a scholarship in Natural Science." 



Miss Flood obtained a grant from the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research to enable her to receive 

 training in Forest Botany at the Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin, under the v/riter of this notice, and she carried out 

 research work there from ist December, 1918, until 31st 

 March, 1920. The results appear in three papers published 

 under the joint names of Augustine Henry and Margaret 



