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I cannot decline to offer you my good wishes for your success. I do not 

 of course presume to offer an opinion upon your attainments as a 

 zoologist (as a botanist of high merit you are better known to myself), 

 but I cannot doubt that your long experience as assistant to Dr. Carte, 

 and your intimate acquaintance with the methods of classification and 

 arrangement of specimens adopted by him in the Museum, have given 

 you advantages of which you have made good use, and that if appointed 

 to the office of Curator you will worthily fulfil the duties connected with 

 that office. 



Professor A. G. Melville wrote : 



I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the fitness of Mr. A. G. 

 More for the post of Curator of the Natural History Museum in the 

 National Museum of Dublin, rendered vacant by the death of my much 

 lamented friend Dr. Carte. Mr. More has served loyally under Dr. 

 Carte for fifteen years, and must be well acquainted with the tastes and 

 pursuits of Irish naturalists, and the many gentlemen who resort to the 

 Museum for study, or to see the latest acquisitions to the native 

 Fauna. 



That Mr. More is a most distinguished botanist, and has enriched 

 the Irish Flora, is well known. Besides his general knowledge of 

 zoology in its various branches, I can speak especially to his zeal for 

 marine zoology, as I have the pleasure of seeing the results of his 

 numerous dredging excursions in my province. 



I sincerely trust that his long services in Dublin, his varied acquire- 

 ments, and his zeal for imparting his stores of information, may be 

 rewarded by the advance to the Curatorship. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin wrote : 



MY DEAR MORE, I shall indeed be glad to hear that you have 

 been appointed to the post of Curator of the Museum of Natural History 

 in Dublin, rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Carte. Though I have 

 no personal acquaintance with the Museum itself, your industry and 

 enthusiasm I do know, and they cannot fail to have been of such service 

 to that institution as to entitle you to the recognition of them that you 

 seek. 



Mr. F. D. Godman wrote : 



MY DEAR MORE, I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to your 

 fitness in soliciting the appointment you are seeking -the Curatorship 

 of the Natural History Museum of Dublin. I have now known you for 

 upwards of thirty years, during which time you have been a steady 

 worker at natural science, and have acquired a considerable knowledge 

 in various departments of zoology as well as botany, which in my esti- 

 mation renders you a suitable candidate for the post you seek, and I 

 shall be very glad to hear that you are successful in obtaining it. 



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