388 Alexander Goodman More. [isss 



bygone days. " I hope that you have had a good season. 

 This beautiful hot summer should have brought many 

 tourists to your beautiful Island. I do indeed wish that I 

 could ramble about as I used to. But I am afraid that is 

 quite out of the question now." 



In October, he again writes to his Achill correspon- 

 dent the subject this time being the autumnal flowering 

 of the Mediterranean heath, on which he sent a note to 

 the " Irish Naturalist/' 



{October i*j th, 1893.} Many thanks for the flowering sprays of Erica 

 mediterranea. It is very curious to find it in flower at this season. No 

 doubt it is the late hot summer which has pushed it forward, and made 

 it anticipate the usual date. I have seen many apple trees in flower 

 this autumn. I am glad that you have received the head of Dolphin 

 safely back. Now that you have the skeleton all together, I think you 

 should offer it to any one of the large Museums, and certainly begin with 



Dublin You should keep the dates of arrivals of birds carefully 



this year, in case there may be any difference from the usual dates. 

 Mr. Williams has obtained a Red-breasted Snipe in the Dublin market. 

 That is the latest addition to the Irish Birds, and one more American in 

 Ireland. I am fairly well, thank you, and quite recovered from the 

 illness which I had last summer, and I am glad to hear that you are 

 now quite well again . 



His ornithological correspondence with Mr. Ussher was 

 particularly brisk, but most of the letters are too technical 

 for quotation. Mr. Ussher's " Report on the Breeding- 

 range of Birds in Ireland " was a paper which interested 

 him greatly, and he made a number of notes on the draft, 

 which was laid before the Royal Irish Academy as " Re- 

 vised and amended by A. G. More." But the " revision " 

 was probably not more extensive than that which most of 

 the botanical reports read to the same body for years back 

 had received at his hands. 



November 24th, 1893. 



DEAR USSHER, I now return you both Breeding Birds and Report.* 

 The latter should be entitled, I think, Exploration instead of Tour. 

 " Tour" sounds too much like a pleasure-trip. In the Notes you may 

 perhaps find something ; but indeed you have done the Breeding Birds 

 so well and completely that they could hardly be better. I am chiefly 



* On Exploration of the Midland Lakes and Bogs. 



