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press your claims by direct application; but, as such is not the case, I 

 hope you will make all the use you can of this letter. 



Canon Tristram wrote : 



Mr. A. G. More has long been known to me personally as an 

 accomplished and indefatigable worker in the various branches of 

 Natural History, and he has proved his capability and energy as 

 assistant in the Department, to the Curatorship of which he now 

 aspires. As a fellow-worker with Mr. More in these branches, I am 

 glad of the opportunity of bearing testimony to his merit and ability, 

 and I feel sure that, from the proofs he has already given, his appoint- 

 ment would be most fortunate for the success and advance of the 

 Museum. 



Professor King, of Queen's College, Galway, wrote : 



Having for the past forty years had under my charge some important 

 Museums of Natural History, I feel that I ought to understand what is 

 required of anyone holding the office which has become vacant in the 

 Royal Dublin Society through the death of the late Dr. Carte. 



It is on this account that I do not hesitate to come forward on the 

 present occasion to express my highest opinion in favour of the qualifi- 

 cations and claims of Mr. A. G. More for the above office, inasmuch as 

 they are not only based on his long services in the Natural History 

 Department of the Society, but on the highly efficient way in which he 

 has managed it, at the same time considerably advancing Irish Zoology 

 and Botany by his writings, and courteously giving his best assistance 

 to all strangers interested in the Natural History of Ireland. As such 

 then, and from a long acquaintance with him, I consider Mr. A. G. 

 More eminently qualified for the office he is now endeavouring to 

 obtain. 



Sir Victor Brooke wrote : 



MY DEAR MR. MORE, I was very sorry to hear of Dr. Carte's 

 death. It will be a matter of very great satisfaction to me and many 

 others if you should be selected to fill the vacant place. Indeed, I know 

 no one more capable of discharging the duties of Naturalist in the 

 Museum than you. Intimately acquainted as you are well known to be 

 with various branches of zoology, and zealous as you have always been 

 in furthering the interests of the Museum, I believe naturalists will be 

 most fortunate should your services be recognized as 1 think they 

 deserve. 



Professor Edward Hull wrote : 



MY DEAR SIR, As you have informed me that you are a candidate 

 for the office recently held by my lamented friend, the late Dr. Carte, 



