66 The Irish Naturalist. June, 



G. Flood in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academ}/, 

 vol. XXXV., Section B, as follows : — 



April, 19 19 — No, 2. " The History of the London Plane, Platanus 



acerifolia, with notes on the genus Platanus." 

 September, 191 9 — No. 4. " The History of the Dunkeld Hybrid Larch, 



Larix eurolepis, with notes on other Hybrid Conifers." 

 May, 1920 — No. 5. " The Douglas Firs : a Botanical and Silvicultural 



Description of the various Species of Pseudotsuga." 



Miss Flood's share in these papers represent a vast amount 

 of painstaking labour, which has helped, to solve some 

 problems of considerable interest to foresters and systematic 

 botanists. 



In April, 1920, Miss Flood rejoined Trinity College as 

 Demonstrator of Zoology for a brief period ; and then, 

 on October 14th, 1920, she was appointed Technical Assistant 

 in the National Museum, a post which opened out to her 

 a career, where her acquirements and talents would have 

 had full scope. Dr. R. F. Scharff writes to me on the i8th 

 May : " Miss Flood felt too unwell on the 15th March to 

 continue her work, and we all thought she must have 

 contracted some form of influenza and expected her to be 

 back soon. And then came the long and painful illness 

 from which she never recovered. We have only had her 

 services for five months. From the moment of her arrival 

 in the museum I felt that we had made a unique discovery. 

 Her charm of manner, her strong character and keen 

 interest in Natural Hist or}/ impressed me particularly. 

 Only one accomplishment she lacked which I thought 

 would be useful to her as Technical Assistant, namely, 

 typewriting ; and she began at once to acquire it. A few 

 weeks after, she v/as able to type well and then started the 

 catalogue of the large number of pamphlets which had 

 accumulated during the war. Meanwhile she was busy 

 mounting specimens in spirit for exhibition, and re-arranging 

 and re-labelling the fossil invertebrates. It must be re- 

 membered that for years before Miss Flood came there was 

 no one in the museum to deal with the great accumulations 

 of that kind, and she threw herself into the work with 

 unbounded energy and zeal. When Mr. Nichols mentioned 



