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ALEXANDER GOODMAN MORE. 



Mr. H. C. Hart having been prevented by illness from under- 

 taking the biography of Mr. A. G. More which he had kindly offered 

 to prepare for this Journal, it seems desirable not to delay further 

 some account of one who for many years held a foremost rank 

 among British critical botanists. Mr. R. M. Barrington pubhshed 

 in the Irish Naturalist for May an interesting account of the 

 deceased botanist, to which we are indebted for much information ; 

 the account of Mr. More's earlier years is entirely from this source. 



Alexander Goodman More, who was of Scottish descent on both 

 sides, was born in London, September oth, 1830, From his sixth 

 to his eleventh year he lived with his parents at Lausanne, and at 

 this early age the direction of his tastes was shown by the col- 

 lection of butterflies. In 1841 he went to school at Clifton, and 

 subsequently to Rugby, where his natural history tastes further 

 developed : a note in his diary for 1846 runs, " Taste for birds first 

 began from being anxious to know all about a nuthatch I had shot, 

 which I compared with and found out in Bewick," In 1850 he 

 went with a friend to Ireland, where he spent the summer and 

 botanized for the first time. In the same year he entered Trinity 



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