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The British Museum is at present absolutely closed for cleaning, and 

 though I got in on Tuesday it was impossible to do anything, as all the 

 covers were pulled down, so that the specimens were invisible. It will 

 be opened on Monday next ; and as I think it would be a great pity to 

 leave London without looking round, I hope that you will approve of my 

 staying here two more days than I intended, so as to be able to work 

 in the Museum on Monday and Tuesday, and then return by the night 

 mail on Tuesday next. Mr. Kirby's letter reached me safely, and I 

 will call for the books which he mentions. Yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



This was a year of greater activity in the zoological 

 department. In July he went on a dredging expedition to 

 Castletown-Berehaven, a locality of much interest to 

 naturalists, to the exploration of which he evidently looked 

 forward with relish. 



CASTLETOWN BEREHAVEN, July 4th. 



DEAR DOCTOR CARTE, I arrived here this afternoon, and have 

 engaged a boat to dredge to-morrow. Weather looks fine, and the 

 barometer is rising. I was fortunate in meeting a clergyman from 

 Ardgroom (north side of this peninsula), who is to take me in when I 

 have done with Bantry Bay. Thus I hope to try Kenmare Bay as well. 

 It has never yet been fairly tried, and perhaps may yield some novelties. 

 It rained hard all Saturday and all Sunday. I was "pounded" for 

 Sunday at Killarney, there being no car that day. But here I am at 

 last, fresh and hopeful, as far as my money will go. Yours, 



A. G. M. 



He had a successful fortnight's dredging, and many of 

 the more delicate star-fish (" Brittle-stars," u Sand-stars," 

 " Feather-stars/' &c.) now shown in the Invertebrate collec- 

 tion in the Museum, may he seen from the labels to have 

 been taken on this expedition. Owing to the fineness of 

 the weather nearly all his time at Castletown-Berehaven 

 was spent on the water. But he could not quit the locality 

 without having seen its great botanical prize, Spiranthes 

 romanzoffiana, at that time known nowhere else in Europe; 

 and his diary of Sunday, July gth, mentions " a walk with 

 Dr. Armstrong round the edge of Tralahan Cove. Saw 

 plenty of the orchid in nearly full flower. Other orchids 

 are nearly past ; grows in rather boggy, moist, and often 



