The Irish Naturalist Volume 7-8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...systematica Plant arum indigettarum in comitatu nblinensi inverttarum; and when he followed this up in 1S04 with his well-known Planicc Rariores in Hibcrnia invenla, and induced the Society to found a Botanic Garden at Glasnevin, 110 doubt Irish botanists considered that they had now abundant means at their disposal for the study of their favourite hobby. But the Irish plant-list was still very incomplete, and two or three localities were all that even the most interesting species could boast. Twenty years later that industrious Scotchman, James Townsend Mackay. first curator of Trinity College Botanic Garden, presented to the Royal Irish Academy his important Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants of Ireland, "the result of twenty years observation during numerous excursions made to almost every part of the country that was likely to afford interesting matter to the Botanist." This was published in vol. xiv. of the Transactions of the Academy. 'Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland. Second edition, founded on the papers of the late Alexander Goodman More, I-.RS.E., F.L.S., M.R.I.A., by Nathaniel Colgan, M.R.I.A., and Reginald W. Scully, F.L.S. Dublin: Ponsonby; London: Gurney and Jackson, 1898. 8vo. pp. 96 + 53S. Map. i$. 6d. Mackay's list is the first enumeration of Irish plants that has any claim to completeness, and as such its appearance marked a distinct forward step. Meanwhile John White, of Glasnevin Botanic Garden, an enthusiastic field-botanist, had amassed a considerable body of plant-records as the result of excursions to various parts of Ireland, and Miss Katherine Sophia Baily (afterwards Lady Kane), then twenty-two years of age, edited and...