Henry William Lett (4 December 1836,
Hillsborough
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, County Down – 26 December 1920,
Aghaderg
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) was an
Irish botanist
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who specialised in
moss
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es.
Lett was educated at
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. He was
Canon of
Dromore and a Member of the
Belfast Natural History Society and a Member of the
Royal Irish Academy
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.
Works
The most significant are
*Lett, H. W. 1912. Musci and Hepaticae.
Clare Island Survey
The Clare island Survey was a multidisciplinary (zoological, botanical, archaeological, and geological) survey of Clare Island an island off the West coast of Ireland.
The survey which followed a similar survey of Lambay Island in 1905 and 190 ...
, parts 11, 1Z: ''Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.'', 13, 1–18.
*Lett, H. W. 1915. Census Report on the Mosses of Ireland. ''Proc. Roy. Irish Acad''., 32, B, 65–166.
References
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Robert Lloyd Praeger
Robert Lloyd Praeger (25 August 1865 – 5 May 1953) was an Irish naturalist, writer and librarian.
Biography
From a Unitarian background, he was born and raised in Holywood, County Down. He attended the school of the Reverend McAlister and t ...
''Some Irish naturalists: A Biographical Note-book'' W.Tempest, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, 1949 online her
External links
Henry William LettHerbaria United
digital images of 77 Herbarium, herbarium specimens collected by Rev. Henry William Lett
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19th-century Irish botanists
1836 births
1920 deaths
Bryologists