220 ALEXANDICR GOODMAN MORE. 



College, Cambridge. The summer of 1851 was also spent in 

 Ireland, at Castle Taylor, Co. Galway (where some years later 

 his sister discovered Ncotinea intacta), and Viola stciipiina was added 

 to the Irish flora. At Cambridge he made the acquaintance of 

 Professor Babiugton, and in 1852 began to study botany seriously, 

 having purchased a number of books dealing with the English and 

 Continental floras. He was prevented by ill-health from completing 

 his college course, and enforced leisure enabled him to spend portions 

 of 1854 and 1855 in Ireland. The results of his earlier investigations 

 appeared in his first published paper, " On the Flora of the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Castle Taylor," which was read at the Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh (of which he was a Fellow) on April 12th, 1855, and 

 printed in its Proceedings, pp. 2G-30. It was "ofi'ered as a small 

 contribution towards what has hitherto been so little explored — the 

 geographical statistics of West of Ireland Botany;" and may be 

 taken as an indication of the bent of his tastes, and as a first step 

 in the direction which led to the publication of the Cyhele Hihernica. 

 In 1856 More became a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Side by 

 side with his botanical work, he kept up the study of birds and 

 butterflies, of which his knowledge was considerable: his knowledge 

 of these branches of natural history, however, demands only a 

 passing reference in these pages. 



More's critical knowledge began to display itself in papers on 

 Viola, Batrachium, and Lcpii/omim, contributed to the new series of 

 the Pliytolotjist in 1860 and 1861 ; some of these were unsigned, but 

 the bibliography appended to Mr. Barrington's sketch enables us to 

 identify them. It was in the Fhytolo(jist also that he printed his 

 Comparative List of British Plants, compiled from the leading floras, 

 which was subsequently published separately. He published a note 

 on the climate of the Isle of Wight (where he was then residing) in 

 the first volume of this Journal (1864), to which he has always been 

 a warm friend and valued contributor, and in which most of his 

 botanical papers have been published. These have related for the 

 most part to the Irish flora, and have been marked by that critical 

 accuracy which was never absent from his observations. 



His chief work was, of course, the Cyhele Hihernua, which he 

 suggested to Dr. David Moore in 1864. The suggestion was received 

 with favour, and as Dr. Moore had already collected a large amount 

 of material, Mr. More went to live at Glasnevin, and the two 

 botanists devoted themselves to the scheme with such energy that 

 the volume was published in 1866. The value of the work is so 

 universally recognized that it is unnecessary to say more than that 

 More's critical faculty is manifest on every page ; and this is no 

 disparagement to his collaborator, without whose extensive know- 

 ledge of the country the necessary material would not have been 

 fortlicoming. The work has long been out of print, and for many 

 years past, up to his death, More was accumulating material for a 

 new edition. It is to be hoped that Irish botanists will, with as 

 little delay as possible, devote themselves to publishing this fitting 

 memorial to one of Ireland's principal botanists. 



In 1867 More was appointed Assistant in the Dublin Natural 



