286 Alexander Goodman More. [issi 



On November 22nd, his anxiety was ended : 



MY DEAR NEWTON, I am delighted to tell you I have just received 

 notice of my appointment as Curator here, and I lose no time in return- 

 ing you my most sincere and hearty thanks for the great help which you 

 have given me. Yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



And to Professor Babington he wrote a few days 

 later : 



November 26th. 



DEAR BABINGTON, I am sure that you and Mrs. Babington will be 

 very glad to hear of my success in the matter of the Curatorship. I 

 received my appointment a few days since, and I wish to thank you 

 most sincerely and gratefully for your kind help. Newton's undivided 

 support was a tower of strength, and I hope if you see him you will tell 

 him how very much indebted I feel to him for acting in a so thoroughly 

 friendly way. How curious that, of the two things I most wished last 

 spring, one that seemed hopeful turned out all wrong, while my present 

 luck was more than I could quite venture to expect. Laus Deo. With 

 kindest remembrances, and I often think over how good you and Mrs. 

 Babington were to me, your sincere and affectionate friend, 



A. G. MORE. 



Testimonials in promotion of his candidature had been 

 given him by naturalists of every section, the ornithologists 

 being naturally very strongly represented. From the 

 variety of points of view from which they are written, they 

 compose a series of sketches of which none can here be 

 omitted. 



Lord Powerscourt wrote : 



Mr. A. G. More has been assistant to the late Dr. Carte in the 

 Natural History Museum for many years, and has, I believe, had the 

 arrangement and classification of the specimens under his care. The 

 arrangements in the Museum testify to his capability and knowledge of 

 the subjects of which he has had the charge, and seem, as far as one 

 can judge, to point to him as an able successor to the post vacated by 

 the lamented death of Dr. Carte. 



Dr. W. E. Steele, the Director of the Science and Art 

 Museum, wrote : 



I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the admirable manner 

 in which, during a period of fifteen years, Mr. A. G. More has dis- 



