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wa8 educated at Cambridge, and lectured on Chemistry at Trinity- 

 College. He then went to Australia, and became well known in 

 University and scientific circles in Melbourne. He held the chair 

 of Geology and Mineralogy, and was Director of the Bendigo 

 School of Mines. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society, 

 and was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1888. He died of 

 typhoid fever at Bendigo on March 11th, 1S9J, aged 39 years. 



Alexandee GrOODMAN MoEE was the son of Mr. Alexander More 

 of Malvern, both his father and mother being of Scottish extraction. 

 He was born in 1831, and was educated at liugby and Cambridge. 

 After leaving the university he went to liv^e in the lsl6 of Wight, 

 where his taste for natural history was fostered by the friend- 

 ship of several ardent naturalists, especially theEev. C. A. Bury, 

 Frederick Boud, and H. Eogers. More at once applied himself 

 industriously to the study of the botany and zoology of the 

 island, in the latter section his attention being first directed to 

 insects and birds, and then ultimately extended to the Chiroptera 

 and other small mammals as well as fishes. In 1860 he contributed 

 " Outlines of the Natural History of the Isle of AVight " to the 

 Hev. Edmund Veuables' ' Guide ' to that Island. From 1858 

 onwards papers by him appeared at intervals in various scientific 

 journals i'.ua magazines, one of the earliest being a communication 

 (Zool. 1858) on the Distribution of Butterflies in Great Britain ; 

 and mention may also be made of an important paper which was 

 printed in ' The Ibis,' 18(55, " On the Distribution of Birds in 

 Great Britain during the JS^esting-S.^ason." He also published, 

 in 1885, a ' List of Irish Birds,'" a second edition of which 

 appeared in 1890. 



Botany, however, appears to have exercised a greater fasci- 

 nation upon Mr. More than zoology ; he ultimately became a 

 high authority upon the flowering plants of Ireland; and in 

 1SG6, in conjunction with Dr. David Moore, he published a volume 

 entitled ' Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica.' 



Whilst at Cambridge he was elected an Associate of the Eay 

 Club in 1851. In 1867 he was appointed Assistant Naturalist 

 in the Museum of Natural History of the Koyal Dublin Society, 

 and in 1881, on the death of Dr. Carte, he became Curator of 

 the Natural History Department. He held this position until 

 1887, when Jailing health compelled him to retire. He was a 

 ]Vi ember of the Eoyal Irish Academy and of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh ; and was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1856. 

 He died in Dublin on March 22ud, 1895, at the age of 64. 



Another deplorable gap in the ranks of our Foreign Members 

 has been caused by the death of Natanael Peingsheim on the 

 6th October, 1894. 



He was born atWziesko, in Upper Silesia, on the 30th November, 

 1823. His first putdication was his thesis for the Doctorate at 

 Halle in 1848, on the thickening of the plant-cells, thus early 



