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ment was assisted by More, who, in order to be near his friend, came to 

 reside at Glasnevin. The authors worked with diligence for two years, 

 mutual esteem and harmony prevailed, and the " Cybele Hibernica" 

 was completed in August, 1866. 



In 1867 he was appointed Assistant in the Dublin Natural History 

 Museum, and for twenty years from that date his room there was the 

 rendezvous of all naturalists who came to Dublin. Here introductions 

 were made, jealousies dispelled, and friendships initiated and cemented. 

 Every nerve was strained to encourage, stimulate, and assist the 

 younger naturalists. More was their counsellor and guide, and the 

 Natural History of Ireland had in him a most earnest advocate. 



In 1877, he was made an Honorary Member of the Zoological and 

 Botanical Society of Vienna. 



By a gentle and gracious manner, unfailing courtesy, and wonderful 

 tact, rare specimens were, over and over again, coaxed from the owners 

 for the Museum, and difficulties overcome in their transfer by a sort of 

 insidious persuasion which few could withstand. 



In the old days, before the present National Library was built, most 

 of the works on Natural History were collected in a lofty square well- 

 lighted room, and here More often spent hours working at some moot 

 point for the benefit of a friend down in the country. The trouble he 

 took was amazing. For a quarter of a century, scarcely a pamphlet, 

 paper, or book was published on the flora or fauna of Ireland in which 

 the author did not acknowledge his assistance or advice. It always 

 gave him greater pleasure to help others to write than to undertake the 

 task himself. There was no lack of mental energy, but ill-health frus- 

 trated many a plan which would have been carried out had he been 

 more vigorous. 



In 1 88 1, on the death of Dr. Carte, he was appointed Curator of the 

 Museum, and occupied this post till a protracted illness caused him to 

 retire on pension in 1887. His residence at Rathmines now became 

 the frequented resort of botanists and zoologists, with whom he kept up 

 a constant correspondence, making systematic entries of their notes in 

 the " Cybele Hibernica," and in other books and papers which he had 

 interleaved and annotated. 



He was not a scientist of the modern type ; the correct identification 

 of a species, its habits, and geographical distribution were studied by 

 him rather than its morphology and histology. He revelled in minute 

 distinctions between well -marked varieties, and his critical opinion was 

 respected in England and abroad. Familiar with every pamphlet and 

 book on his favourite studies, he held a unique position as a referee in 

 the bibliography of Irish and English Natural History, for he knew 

 both zoological and botanical literature. 



The short notes and papers which he has written are numerous, but, 

 unlike many, he wrote less than he knew, rather than err by making 

 unfounded statements. His " Outlines of the Natural History of the 

 Isle of Wight," the valuable papers in the Ibis for 1865, the Supple- 

 ment to the "Flora Vectensis," the "Cybele Hibernica" and its 



