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Lough Allen and the SHeveancerin Mountains, and of South Clare 
and the Shannon to the R.I.A. Proceedings, besides papers on 
Saxifraga Hircubis in Ireland (‘ Journ. Bot.’ 302, 1884), on Carex 
aquatilis in Ireland (‘Journ. Bot.’ 49, 1885), on Irish Hieracia 
(‘ Journ. Bot.’ 83, 1886), and his “Flora of N.E. Ireland” is, as 
the author of Cybele Htberntca (wlience the above information 
was extracted) says, “ The most valuable local Irish Flora yet pub- 
lished.” His colleague, T. H. Corry, met a tragic end while on his 
favourite pursuit. I have known him for many years, and always 
found him ready in any way to render assistance to a fellow- 
botanist. He had a very good knowledge of the native species, 
and also detected the alien Hieracium Auricula in a locality near 
Belfast. 
The Rev. William Hunt Painter (1835 — 1910) passed away, 
we regret to say, on October 12, 1910, at 3 Lexden Gardens, Shrews- 
bury, after an illness of nearly a year’s duration. Born in 1835, he 
had nearly completed his seventy-sixth year. He had resigned the 
living of Stirchley, Shifnal, Salop, about ten months previously, 
having been instituted there in 1894. Previously to this he had 
been in charge of the parish of Biddulph, in Staffordshire, and Curate, 
amongst other places, of High Wycombe, 1865-66, and Holy 
Trinity, Derby, 1871-79. It was when in residence at this last 
place that he was able to collect material for his ‘ Flora of Derby- 
shire,’ which though to some extent superseded by the late Rev. 
W. R. Linton’s more ambitious work, was carefully compiled, and 
contained the Musci and Hepaticss as well as the flowering plants. 
In Shropshire, where he resided the last seventeen years of his life, 
he took a very active part in the County Botany. For many years 
he was the Botanical Referee for the ‘ Bare Facts ’ of the Caraden 
and Severn Valley Field Club, of which Club he was a Vice- 
President ; and he often read papers, both geological and botanical, 
at their evening meetings during the winter months. In company 
with the late William Philips Hamilton, of Shrewsbury (whose death 
in June last has deprived Shropshire of her leading Cryptogamist), 
he explored the county well for Mosses, and was one of the few 
survivors of the small band of local Botanists who had prepared 
materials for a new Flora of the County, a work not yet completed 
sufficiently to go to publication. He has left a widow, but no 
