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lin, and when her school time was ended, her health was found to be unsatis- 
factory. Dr. Whitley Stokes, a friend of her family, who was consulted about 
the case, recommended her being left in his care. It was so arranged, and she 
soon recovered. When finally leaving for home, Dr. Stokes advised her to live 
in the open air as much as possible, and to this end to take up the study of some 
branch of natural history, by preference that of botany, which was his own 
specialty, and he offered to lend her books into which she had been dipping 
whilst in his house, where also she had become acquainted with Mr. Mackay, 
of Glasnevin Gardens, and Mr. Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth. This would 
provide exercise and fresh air and quiet occupation while indoors. 
“She became an ardent student of mosses, hepatics, lichens, and algae, 
which abounded on the hills, in the glens, or in the sea, around Bantry and 
Glengarriff. She discovered many rare species of all these in the neighborhood 
near her home, and made many drawings for Turner’s ‘Fuci.’ 
.“A trait in her character was her natural modesty, which was so great 
that for some time she objected to her name being published as the collector 
of the rare plants she had found. 
“Sir James Smith wrote of her that ‘she could find almost anything.’ Tur- 
ner, in the conclusion of his ‘Fuci’ (1819), laments her untimely death at the 
early age of 30 years, and says by it he has been deprived of a most able assistant, 
and botany had lost a votary as indefatigable as she was acute, and as successful 
as she was indefatigable. Sir William J. Hooker, in ‘ Muscologia Britannica’ 
(1827), acknowledges assistance received from Miss Hutchins in the preparation 
of that work. 
“David Moore writes in the introduction to his ‘Synopsis of the Mosses 
of Ireland,’ Proceedings of Royal Academy (1872), that William Wilson notices 
in his ‘ Bryologia Britannica’ some species of mosses which were not included 
by Dr. Taylor in Part 2 of Mackay ’s ‘Flora Hibernica,’ but which Wilson had 
found when examining the herbaria of Dawson Turner and Sir William J. Hooker, 
to whom these plants had been sent by the late Miss Hutchins, of Bantry, ‘whose 
name is well known to all cryptogamic botanists, both here and abroad.’ To 
form some idea of her great success amongst the Hepaticae, we have only to 
consult the pages of Hooker’s ‘ Jungermanniae,’ where her name is more or less 
connected with nearly every rare species contained in- that grand work.” 
In the Journal of Botany, February, 1912, page 63, under the title, 
“Eighteenth Century Women Botanists,” is reprinted from a little-known work, 
“Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis,” of G. F. W. Meyer, published in 1818, 
page 199, a tribute to the botanical work of Miss Hutchins. She is described 
as having lately died at “Bontajae,” in Ireland, which is no doubt intended 
for Bantry. Allusion is made to the hepatic, Jungermannia ( Frullania ) Hutch- 
insiae, as having been named after her; mention is made of her fervent love 
of the s'tudy of cryptogamic botany, notwithstanding all its difficulties, and of 
her having found many plants new to English botany. The remarkable collec- 
tion of plants which she had made, together with a large number of beautiful 
drawings and notes on the plants, passed into the possession of Dawson Turner, 
