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OBITUARY. 



FRANCES MARGARET MORE. 



The death of Miss More, on February 7th, was an event of sad interest 

 to Irish naturalists, to whom for the past fourteen 3'ears her life had 

 been a valued link with the not yet distant past in which her distin- 

 guished brother, the late A. G. More, filled so prominent a place. Miss 

 More had from childhood been her brother's chief companion, and 

 devoted herself with rare and unselfish assiduit}' to the seconding of his 

 pursuits. It is a rather remarkable, though, perhaps, accidental, fact 

 that A. G. More's first attention to botany was the result of a request 

 made by her at the time of his first visit to Ireland (in 1850) that he would 

 collect some of the County Galway plants for a small herbarium she had 

 begun to form. A few years later the brother and sister visited Castle 

 Taylor together. More's important paper on the flora of that neighbour- 

 hood was the result of work done by them in common, and it is well 

 known that the subsequent discovery of Habenaria (or Neotinea) intacla 

 as an Irish and Britannic plant was practically Miss More's achievement. 

 Her quickness of eye was very remarkable, and frequently led to the 

 discovery of some of the best prizes obtained during their joint botanical 

 rambles, in the Isle of Wight as well as in the early visits to Ireland. 

 After the death of her father in i886 Miss More took up her residence 

 permanently with her brother in Dublin, and from that time onwards 

 most Irish naturalists have enjojed the privilege of counting her 

 among their friends. Though she did not put herself forward as a 

 scientific naturalist, her knowledge in more than one department of 

 nature-study was far from inconsiderable. Lepidoptera and shells were 

 among her favourite subjects, and it w^as an instructive pleasure to be 

 shown by her through the large and interesting collections which she 

 and her brother had together formed. After the death of the latter 

 Miss More rendered a real service to botany by forwarding the publication 

 of the new edition of the Cvbele Hibernica. Of her personal character- 

 istics this is scarcely the place to speak, but she possessed in a rare 

 degree that forgetfulness of self and interest in others which made her 

 brother so long a guiding spirit amongst students of nature in Ireland. 



C. B. M. 



