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came to Dublin, that you are, both personally and from your acquire- 

 ments, eminently suited to fill the above office, with the duties of which 

 you are already familiar. I have much pleasure in testifying to your 

 general knowledge of Natural History ; and I would point out that your 

 extensive acquaintance with the Fauna and Flora of Ireland should 

 render you specially well qualified to carry out the objects of the 

 Natural History Department in the Museum of Science and Art, 

 Dublin which I imagine to be not only the promotion of general 

 instruction in Natural History, but the supplying of information to 

 those requiring it for various particular purposes. I have often had 

 occasion to apply to you for information respecting the Fauna and 

 Flora of Ireland, and thankfully bear witness to the ability and to the 

 cheerful readiness with which you have always afforded it to me. 



Professor Newton wrote : 



Having been well acquainted for many years with Mr. A. G. More 

 I have very great pleasure in bearing witness to the assiduity and 

 conscientious accuracy with which during that time he has pursued 

 the study of Natural History. Confining myself to that part of it in 

 which alone I can pretend to speak with any authority, I am sure that 

 in several branches of Zoology his labours have been of a very high 

 value ; and especially I must mention his series of papers on the 

 " Distribution of Birds in Great Britain," published in the " Ibis " for 

 1865. Being then editor of that journal I know the excellent effect 

 it produced on its readers, and I also know that the adoption and 

 working out of the idea were entirely his own the latter involving an 

 enormous amount of details which were most successfully treated by 

 him. 



Mr. A. G. More's fitness for the post he is now seeking is perhaps 

 best testified by the regard which I know from correspondence with 

 many Irish Zoologists is entertained for him by them, and is founded 

 on their experience of his zeal in promoting the study, and of his 

 readiness to aid them in the prosecution of their researches. I have 

 therefore little doubt that if he be promoted to direct the Museum in 

 which he has so long been an assistant, his appointment will not only 

 be regarded with favour by a majority of those that use it, but will con- 

 tribute greatly to the advancement of the objects for which it was 

 founded. 



Professor Babington wrote : 



MY DEAR MORE, I trust that you will be appointed to the Curator- 

 ship of the Natural History Museum at Dublin, which has just become 

 vacant. I have had such good and long-continued opportunity of 

 judging of your fitness for the post that I cannot suppose there can be 

 any candidate with nearly equal claims to your own. If I had any 

 acquaintance with those in whom the appointment rests I would gladly 



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