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exterminators." It was the summer of the Fisheries Ex- 

 hibition, to which he went (July gth to 23rd) on behalf of 

 the Museum. In London he met some of his oldest bota- 

 nical friends, including Mr. Newbould, and made acquaint- 

 ance with a few new ones, of whom one was afterwards 

 among his most valued correspondents Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett. 



He called on Mr. Bennett at Croydon, on Friday, the 

 2oth of July. " You may like to hear of our first meeting," 

 writes Mr. Bennett to Miss More, referring to this occasion. 

 " One evening (it was the year we found Naias marina in 

 Norfolk) one of my daughters and myself were just getting 

 ready to go off by the night mail to Norfolk, and I was 

 told a gentleman wished to speak to me. He shook hands, 

 and said : ' Oh, I am A. G. More, from Dublin, and 

 Nicholson of Kew* said that was all I need say/ Well, 

 he came in and had a chat, and we went off to London 

 together, had tea at the Liverpool-street Station, and he 

 saw us into the train. I said to him : ' Come with us, 

 Mr. More/ He replied : ' I will, if you will engage to 

 find a new British plant.' I said : 'I believe we shall, 

 for I have long thought one would occur in Norfolk, in 

 Naias marina/ Strange to say, the next day my daughter 

 did find it, in Heigham Sound, close to Hickling Broad. 

 Directly we got home I sent a specimen off to Mr. More, 

 and wrote : c Ah, you ought to have come, for here is the 

 new British plant/ ' 



He visited Mr. Bennett again that winter. Mr. Bennett, 

 in the letter quoted, adds : " My daughters all remember 

 his visit with pleasure, he was so bright, so witty, and 

 named some of them Naias minor and major, having their 

 father's hobby of aquatics. I always read his letters to 

 them, and they all felt so sorry for his long illness and 

 suffering. . . . Certainly, he has been much missed in 

 this house." 



Taking his holiday at the beginning of August, he 

 proposed to go botanizing with his sister in South Wales, 

 the principal ambition here being to re-discover the long- 



* Mr. More had been to Kew the day before (July 19). 

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