33O Alexander Goodman More. [1886 



He wrote the same day to Professor Newton : 



July 2nd, 1885. 



MY DEAR NEWTON, Thank you very much for your very kind letter. 

 I am sending you a second copy of my list, and shall be most grateful 

 for any notes or criticisms that you maybe so kind as to make upon it. 

 . . . Ball seems much pleased with it, and I am now going on with a 

 list of mammals, reptiles, and fishes in same form. Again thanking 

 you, for I think a good deal of your good opinion, I remain, in haste, 

 yours very sincerely, 



A. G. MORE. 



His plans for the summer were uncertain, but he had 

 hopes of devoting part of it to botany. Mr. Newbould, on 

 July 4th, asks him, " Can't you acquire kudos for yourself 

 by spending a week in the Isle of Man, and making out a 

 list of its plants ? Even Rumex obtusifolius is not recorded 

 there, and problems relating to Irish botany cannot be 

 solved till what grows there is known, as well as what is 

 wanting." His own thoughts perhaps rather inclined 

 towards the lake district. But scarcely had he reached 

 Malvern when the determination of his movements was 

 found to rest with the doctor. He fell ill, and was ordered 

 to Buxton. 



From this date there is little more to record of the course 

 of the year 1885 than that it was a continual struggle with 

 ill health. The end of the holidays found him still an 

 invalid at Buxton, and he remained on sick leave in 

 England till the middle of September. He wrote at least 

 one characteristic letter while at Buxton. In the same 

 number of the " Field" which contained a long article on 

 the Irish Avifauna, written to direct attention to his list of 

 Irish birds, appeared a note on the capture of two Basking 

 Sharks off Achill. At once he writes to Mr. Sheridan : 



BUXTON, igth July, 1885. 



DEAR SIR, In the " Field " of i8th July, I see an account of the 

 capture of two Basking Sharks in Achill. Now, as the skin of one of 

 these would have been of great value to the Museum, I write to ask 

 whether, in case of another capture, there is any one in Achill who would 

 undertake to remove the skin and send it up, well salted, to Dublin. 

 If two or three good skinners could be set to work, this operation would 



