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in imparting information in a lucid manner, and during our long inter- 

 course I have ever found him most courteous and obliging in doing so. 



JOHN T. BOSWELL SYME. 



(From D. Moore, PH.D., F.L.S., &c., Director of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.) 



GLASNEVIN, ^th Nov., 1869. 



Understanding that Mr. A. G. More intends offering himself as a 

 candidate for the office of Professor of Botany in the Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin, I have to state that I have known him during a con- 

 siderable number of years. He is a most zealous and excellent field- 

 botanist, who has worked assiduously at the plants of the British Isles, 

 with which he is now well acquainted. When preparing our work on 

 the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland (Cybele Hibernica), 

 Mr. More was my colleague, and took even more than his full share in 

 that work. His appointment to the Chair he now seeks would no doubt 

 be much for the advantage of the Irish flora and Irish botany. 



D. MOORE. 



(From J. G. Baker, F.L.S., &c., Assistant in the Royal 

 Herbarium, Kew, Author of the Floras of Durham, York- 

 shire, &c.) 



KEW, 1 8th October, 1869, 



GENTLEMEN, Mr. A. G. More has been known for the last dozen 

 years as one of the most energetic and critical investigators of the 

 botany of Britain, For many years I have had the management 

 of the only club in existence for the distribution of dried specimens of 

 British plants, and in connexion with this I have corresponded with 

 him regularly, and received from him large supplies of specimens from 

 time to time, and have therefore had a full opportunity of estimating 

 his zeal for and his knowledge of the Science. I am only doing him 

 bare justice in speaking most favourably of his diligence and accuracy. 

 We owe to Mr. More a large proportion of the most interesting addi- 

 tions which have been made to the British flora of late years, but above all, 

 Science owes him a debt for "Cybele Hibernica." From the position 

 of Ireland it is of great importance that geographical botanists should 

 know what species it possesses and how they are dispersed ; and in 

 this work all the so widely scattered details which are known are 

 gathered together and sifted and arranged in a masterly manner. 

 Much still remains to be done, and I know no one more likely than 

 Mr. More to do it, and to do it well, and I should be very glad to see one 

 of the few official positions in connexion with botany in Ireland filled 

 by one who has done so much already to promote our knowledge of the 

 plants of the island. Yours obediently, 



J. G. BAKER. 



