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largely organised and directed, a full account was given in our pages 

 a year ago. Dr. Harada had for some time been in failing health ; 

 he died on December i, 1894, anc ^ hi s funeral was attended by many 

 Europeans, and especially by members of the German colony in 

 Tokio. 



ALEXANDER GOODMAN MORE. 

 Born 1830. Died March 22, 1895. 



IRISH science has sustained a severe loss in the death of this 

 accomplished and genial naturalist. Of Scottish extraction, and 

 educated at Rugby, Cambridge, and Switzerland, Mr. More, after 

 some valuable field-work in the South of England, settled in Ireland 

 about i860. Our knowledge of the flora and fauna of that country 

 has been vastly increased by his labours. In 1866 he published, in 

 conjunction with the late Dr. D. Moore, a " Cybele Hibernica," giving 

 a summary of the distribution of plants in Ireland, of the greatest 

 value, not only for the accuracy of the author's own facts, but for the 

 careful sifting of evidence with regard to doubtful records. It is a 

 matter for the deepest regret to Irish botanists that the second edition 

 of this work, for which material had been assiduously collected by 

 Mr. More almost up to the last, can now never be published by him. 

 In 1867, More became assistant in the Dublin Natural History 

 Museum, of which institution he was appointed Curator in 188 1. In 

 his zoological work he devoted most of his attention to birds, and 

 issued, under the Museum auspices, a valuable list of the Birds of 

 Ireland. His knowledge of other vertebrate groups was, however, 

 very considerable, and he was also well acquainted with the Mollusca 

 and Lepidoptera. Both in botany and zoology, Mr. More excelled as 

 a systematist and field-worker. He made no claim to be a morpho- 

 logist or anatomist. A lamentable accident and lengthened illness 

 forced him to retire from the Dublin Museum in 1887. Since then, 

 debarred from his well-loved outdoor studies, he has cheerfully borne 

 much suffering, while taking a kindly interest in the work of younger 

 men, who have always found him eager to unlock his stores of 

 practical knowledge for their benefit. 



EDWARD HAMILTON ACTON. 



Born 1862. Died 1895. 



THE sudden and premature death of Edward Hamilton Acton at 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, on February 15, has deprived the 

 University of an able and vigorous worker in the Natural Science 

 School. Born at Wrexham in 1862, Acton was educated at Rugby 

 and St. John's College ; after obtaining a first-class in the second part 

 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1885, he was elected Fellow of his 

 College in 1888. For the last seven years he devoted himself chiefly 

 to chemical teaching, and was recently appointed College Lecturer in 



